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You are Alberich: serial killer, familiar to two magi, and dubiously related to the gods. Since being transformed into a superhuman, magic-fueled warrior, you have been contracted to protect one magus, seen him die, and been bound to a new one.
On the night of Wednesday, November 13, 2019, you found yourself in a dimly lit stone basement, standing in the middle of a magic circle. You had been summoned as a Servant, a legendary warrior contracted after their death to fight alongside a magus for the Holy Grail, their existence sustained by the mystic energy of their summoner. In your case you were conned by Judas Iscariot into taking his place despite not being a legendary warrior, but that's neither here nor there at this point. The magic empowered you enough to fill the role, anyway.
After spending a few days learning about the Holy Grail War and your surroundings, you and your Master, Jean-Pierre Vaisset, had your first skirmish with the enemy: a complete defeat. The enemy Servant outclassed you utterly, and the only reason you survived was that her Master ordered her to retreat once he'd killed Vaisset.
With Vaisset dead and your supply of mystic energy cut off, you were prepared to fade into the aether when you discovered to your surprise that he'd prepared a backup plan to transfer his Command Spells to his sister in the event of his death. This transfer of authority was immediately followed by a physical transference, and you appeared in the girl's bedroom. Thus you found yourself breaking the news of her older brother's death to Shijou Ayaka, your new Master, in the middle of the night, only a few moments after you learned of it yourself.
She took it surprisingly well, and since then many things have happened. You slew one Servant, grew stronger by his death, and fled from another. You learned the truth that you were never human, but an artificial hero created by Judas. This revelation about your identity has not changed your goal, however. Whether or not your life has been by the design of another, there is only one path before you. You must win the Holy Grail if you wish to survive. Five Servants remain to fall by your sword.
Now, tonight, you are on the trail of an unknown Servant that's been hunting families of mundane humans for its own reasons, leaving burned out houses in its wake. Will the conflict with it become another inconclusive skirmish, or a new victory for your legend?

Previous thread:
>>3603951


Suptg Archive:
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Your lips curl into a smile. This, now, is good news. The chance to defeat the rogue Servant before the Master of Berserker can stake out the next set of ruins, and to increase your cachet with Emiya's party. To eliminate one of your competitors, hopefully while they're either occupied in their feeding or sated, not expecting a battle. Ayaka has given you the perfect opportunity.

"That's wonderful, Miss Ayaka," you exclaim. "Can you perform the necessary magic here and now? If we can confront that Servant tonight, the evening may yet hold triumph."

"Oh, sure," she says, taken aback at your exuberance. "But, aren't you tired from the fight with Berserker? Can you handle more fighting tonight, Saber-san?"

"I told you, didn't I? I'm fully rejuvenated!" You pat the top of Ayaka's head in a way that could be either comforting or patronizing. You hope it's the former. "Thank you for worrying," you continue in a more normal tone, "but I really am quite well now."

"Alright then, Saber-san," Ayaka concedes. "If you say so."

Ayaka stretches her right hand out in front of her, holding the plate fragment in her palm, and the magic crest on her arm begins to glow. "Lost magic," she chants, eyes shut to view an inner world, "that was once of something greater. I command you by the name of Shijou. Show me your origin, and lead me to your source."

Then the magic fades, and Ayaka opens her eyes again. A faint glow, part of the light that shone from her crest, has taken up residence in her irises. "I know where the Servant is," she declares. "It isn't moving. I think it might be attacking another family now. We need to hurry, Saber-san! That way!"

Without a moment's pause, you pick Ayaka up once more and head off over the rooftops in the direction of her pointing finger. You're heading nearly back the way you came, towards the neighborhood of the Emiya and Shijou houses, but not in exactly the same direction. You won't pass the ruins where you fought Berserker, at any rate. After about a half-hour of travel, Ayaka motions for you to stop. Even if she hadn't though, you'd have known. Even from blocks away, you can clearly feel the Servant's presence as you approach; and when you alight on a roof across the street from the house, you can almost smell the stench of blood. The house where that Servant is feeding hasn't started burning yet, but what's being done in there is like a beacon of energy. There's even a bounded field set around the house, no doubt doing the job of warding off mundane senses.

Of course, if you can detect the Servant in that house, it can surely sense your presence as well.

>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)

>[ ] Wait and watch. (Duty)

>[ ] Launch a portal at the house to attack the Servant from range. (Self-Preservation)
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>>3632709

>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)

First vote of Scathach
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>>3632709
>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)
A bounded field?
Concerning.
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>>3632709
>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)
>inb4 Dead End
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>>3632709
>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)
Time to meet Lancer, I suppose.
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>>3632725
Did Adelheid know how to use those? She seemed like a fire and forget kinda gal
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>>3632747
Adelheid wouldn't.
Circe would.
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>>3632709
>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)
Time to get ganked.
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>>3632709
>[ ] Enter the house. (Pride)
Who cares about dead ends lmao
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I wonder, would gil like the cut of our gib or would he see us as a disgusting pawn of the gods?
Maybe he'd see us as a cute mini enkidu to guide and mold into becoming a true hero
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>>3632709
>[ ] Launch a portal at the house to attack the Servant from range. (Self-Preservation)
Don't give them the chance to prepare.
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So, place your bets. Who thinks that we're gonna die?
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>everyone voting for an option that they openly expect to kill them
but why
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>>3633146

It's literally just three anon, we don't even know for sure so who cares? Not like we're going to immediately start the new thread with a dead end
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>>3633077
Unless this servent is some berserker tier ass destroyer, i don't think we'd just get one shot like that
Unless it's like assassin or something which seems unlikely
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>>3633077
Honestly, it depends on whether or not the Servant inside will appreciate our audacity.

>>3633171
>Not like we're going to immediately start the new thread with a dead end
Well, the first thing to happen to us upon entering the Akeldama was instant death. I'm not 100% confident that we'll survive this choice, but I'd like to talk to the Servant and try to see what's up if at all possible.
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>>3633314
What's the point of talking to the servant?
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>>3633360
To figure out why it's killing people, to get it to let slip a clue to its identity so we can more effectively combat it, information in general.
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>>3633395
I think it's a safe bet to say that they're killing people to empower themselves
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There's no point in simply waiting, you decide. To attack from above would likely give you an advantage, but would also certainly cause the deaths of any humans still living in the house, and that would disturb Ayaka. So there is only one thing to do: enter by the front door. You drop to the street below and materialize your armor before approaching the bounded field carefully. You haven't enough knowledge of such things to guess at its effects.

"Miss Ayaka," you say quietly, "what can you tell me about this bounded field?"

"Hmmm..." She scrutinizes it for a moment, before concluding, "it seems to only be a sensory barrier. It keeps people outside from hearing anything within, and alerts the user when it's crossed."

"Excellent." If it lacks the dangerous effects of Circe's barrier or the solid defense of Vaisset's, it's nothing to worry about. As you pass through it, you feel the membrane of mystic energy tingling on your skin, but nothing more. When Ayaka mentioned the auditory effects of the barrier you had been momentarily concerned that the property would be filled with screams and the bloody noise of its inhabitants' deaths, but these suspicions were unfounded. The air within the bounded field is utterly silent. You try the door, and find it unlocked, the click of the knob resounding in the stillness.

As you advance into the house, your nose fills with the stench of blood. You're certain now that there has been recent death here, but there's no visual sign of it. In fact, the house seems pristine, though dark. The entryway is clear and tidy, with all the family's shoes lined up in their proper places. There were children of four different ages in this family. The floors are polished. There is no clutter about, or any sign of a struggle.

As you move on you see that the living room is in the same condition. It could be a showplace for some modern interior decorating magazine. The house has a western-style layout, with its living room stocked with a sofa and entertainment equipment, and fully separated from the kitchen and dining room. The blood stench comes most strongly from the kitchen, and you doubt it's in the same condition of cleanliness as the first two rooms you've covered. Fortunately for Ayaka's eyes, there's no need to examine it. It's in the dining room that the presence of the Servant waits, as still as the rest of the house. Is it waiting for you with some trap, like a spider in its web? No matter. You clear the hesitation from your mind and advance toward the dining room, rounding the corner ready to materialize Heiligöffnungschwert at the slightest provocation.
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By the way, did anyone notice the [WisUp] tags next to Berserker and Rider of Fuyuki in pastebin when we learnt new things about them?
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No provocation comes as you stand on the threshold. In the dining room, seated at the head of the table with her back to you, is the Servant. You can see her only dimly, however. In the living room and entryway some light had entered through windows or the open front door, but it's not so here in this windowless chamber. The darkness is complete here, and without a Servant's vision you would be unable to see a thing. As it is, you can make out the general details. The predatory Servant is short, wears a richly decorated blue furisode and has long black hair that cascades down her back to cover the high back of the chair she sits in. On either side of that hair, a large ornament of some kind sits, perhaps of ivory. Then, as you're trying to analyze the danger she presents, the Servant speaks.

"I'm so, so glad that you've come, Saber." Her voice is soft, almost inaudible, as if she can barely stand the effort of speaking. "I've been hoping to, well, to see you. Please sit down, won't you?" She gestures at the chair opposite her, at the other end of the narrow table, with a pair of long silver chopsticks. As the Servant speaks you notice that the rhythm of her words is odd as well. She speaks very slowly, as if carefully picking each word, and periodically pauses even longer in mid-sentence.

'Stay well away from that room, Miss Ayaka,' you order your Master telepathically. 'It's too dark for you to see, right? Just stay well back, and I'll keep the Servant from approaching you.'

'Alright,' Ayaka answers nervously, and softly backs away into the living room as you approach the offered seat. You drop yourself heavily into it, armor clanking raucously, but if the violation of her silence disturbs the Servant she doesn't show it. Now that you're fully in the room, your eyes adjust and it's easier to make out the details of your quarry. Her face reminds you of a doll's: exquisitely beautiful, a contrast of china-white skin, black lashes, ruby-red lips, and iridescent, almost luminous eyes; but fixed with an emotionless, vacant expression. Adding to the artificial impression is the fact that the ornaments you'd previously noticed are in fact a pair of large, forward-pointing horns. Her clothing, too, is richly ornamental. She wears black silk gloves, tied at the wrists with white bows. White lace adorns the furisode's long sleeves, and affixed to it are many more ornate bows of blue, red, and gold ribbons, which look almost like large flowers.

On the plate in front of her, though, is something quite unfitting for a doll's diet: dark red meat, raw and thinly sliced as if for yakiniku, rising out of a shallow pool of blood like pasta out of a cream sauce.

"You have me at a disadvantage, miss. You have some familiarity with me, but it is not mutual," you say, keeping your tone conversational. As if you'd met this girl by coincidence, instead of hunting her down over a string of murders.
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"Fufufu," the other Servant titters quietly, her small mouth managing the faintest of upward curves in suggestion of mirth. "I am Caster, but it would be, ah, hardly appropriate to say we are... unfamiliar. You have been the, ah, Master of Caster before, and you knew me at that time. But then, we did have different... names. And features."

"You were in the Akeldama?" You can only ask in disbelief. But then something about her face suddenly does seem familiar. There's a hint in the features of another face. An awkward, perpetually unhappy and nervous face, masked by glasses and long, greasy hair. "Don't tell me..."

"P-p-perhaps it would, ah, h-help you to, er, remember," the Servant says, still with that tiny, barely visible smile, "if I t-took on my former, um, mode of speech?" Now the words aren't slowly chosen, but stuttered out quickly, with the pauses accompanied by placeholder sounds to make sure the other person doesn't cut into the line during a moment of silence. It all clicks.

"Ogawara-kun," you cry in shock, utterly taken aback, "But you-how-"

"Now, now," Caster says, returning to 'her' soft, slow tone. "We have different names now, don't we? I have not called you Yumigawa-san, have I?"

"No, but I would've expected you to," you reply. "Why?"

"Different names," Caster says, "for different people. There are... others entitled to those names. I know the term Caster has some... sentimental meaning for you, of course. If you would prefer, I shall call you Alberich and you may call me Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime; but it is a bit of a... mouthful."

"Names aren't so important," you say firmly, now starting to grow angry. "What matters is that you explain something to me!"

>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)

>[ ] "Why are you traveling through Tokyo slaughtering families?" (Compassion)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)
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>>3633455
>"Why are you traveling through Tokyo slaughtering families?" (Compassion)
this is not how we raised you ogawara
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>>3633455
>>[ ] "Why are you traveling through Tokyo slaughtering families?" (Compassion)
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
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>>3633451
Yep. Is it supposed to be Wisdom Up or something?
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>>3633451
I decided to put a notifier on the entries that get updated in a status update from now on, and IIRC WisUp was what F/SN used.
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
Fucking hell
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>>3633465
>>3633467
Huh.
Pretty handy.
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
Is it wrong that I still want to kill and absorb this servant
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
While the other question is easy to answer with "to survive". I'm not sure why he became a servant. All the power of the ritual should have gone to Alberich.
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>>3633473
C'mon, we were just considering IC the usefulness of consuming all of Tokyo. What's one former ally added to the pile?
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
Well I didn't expect some idle talk from last thread to materialize itself.
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>>3633496
Well, I'm not entirely sure what our plan is with this new revelation.
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Incidentally, here are the two latest additions to the voice cast:

Berserker: Furukawa Makoto
Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime (Caster): Noto Mamiko
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>>3633478
And how did a normal human become a Servant?
I'm now starting to think Yumigawa, Matsuda, Ogawara and Keiseki were all copies, and Judas was either having them all compete to see which one would get to be his replacement or ensuring that he would have backups in the event that we died for real.
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>>3633507
Get Ogawara on our side. Having a good Caster is really useful and we already have enough servants to fill the grail. Setting up some way to use the leylines would really help.
>>3633514
Yes, but then how did this ritual gain power when it just invested power to create copies and sacrificed them to gain the same power back?
And what the hell would happen with the servants left at the end?
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>>3633529

If we somehow become at best on neutral terms, are we going to have to beat the crap out of anyone that decided to lewd them, or possibly even handholding?
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Wait, what if because we didn't sacrifice Circe and Adelheid Judas just channeled their power into Ogawara and maybe someone else?
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>>3633455
>[ ] "Why are you traveling through Tokyo slaughtering families?" (Compassion)
...He doesn't have a Master, does he?
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>>3633553
Judas seemed incapable of directly killing someone with Akeldama. The entire reason for why we needed to kill each other was that he couldn't just take the power of people and channel it into others.
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>>3633507
Dinner's canceled. Let's just try to get along with her. Him? Whatever. Anyways, I'm expecting WALLS of exposition from Judas later on.

>>3633512
>Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime (Caster): Noto Mamiko
Oh boy. I can't stop hearing Hayami Saori everytime I try to read her lines.

>>3633559
She shouldn't be, isn't that why she's killing these people? Besides, Judas' spot was already filled by us. But does this leaves her or any other rogue servants being able to be claimed by Rider's master?
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>>3633577
>She shouldn't be, isn't that why she's killing these people? Besides, Judas' spot was already filled by us. But does this leaves her or any other rogue servants being able to be claimed by Rider's master?
That would be funny. Akagata preparing an ambush with him and it turns into a bloodbatch for her since Circe/Adelheid/Matsuda decide they don't like this turn of events much.
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>>3633577
>Hayami Saori
Interesting. She'd also be a very good candidate, I can definitely see why you'd read it that way. Now I'm torn...
>Dinner's canceled
If you ask nicely, Kōrakuhime might share some dinner with you.
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>>3633606
I only picked her because you casted Noto Mamiko and I have difficulties in differentiating the two. No pressure.

>Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime
Anyways, you mind telling us where you took this from? Or maybe it's too revealing for now? Can't find anything on Google or DDG
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Anons, just consider this for a moment. Sweets clearly displayed that he thought up the OgawaraAsAServant route, and here we are. You know what else Sweets did? Directly ask us, the anons, what class Matsuda would hypothetically be in if he ascended to servanthood. You get what I'm getting at here?
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>>3633622
At this point it's a rather obvious fact that Matsuda would be a servant too.
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>>3633622
So instead of reuniting with our waifus, we're gonna meet our old bros instead?
I can't be fully mad at this, damn you Judas.
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>>3633618
I wrote it from scratch. Ogawara came up with it. It's just as chuuni as you'd expect from a name (s)he invented. Here's the original: 妖神死の紅楽姫
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>>3633628
The question: is he Lancer or Basakah?
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>>3633455
Also holy shit, I didn't expect to get trapped this way.
>[ ] "Why are you traveling through Tokyo slaughtering families?" (Compassion)
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>>3633455
And we're off to a rollicking good start!

>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)

Matsuda might be kicking around somewhere since he was also part of the chargen options.

Kikuko and Truvi though, ho boy.
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Shit, I just realized that Ogawara is an oni. Our life might not be the only thing in danger.
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>>3633670
>Kikuko and Truvi though, ho boy.
If Kikuko has become a servant too then our brainwashing her is really going to pay off.
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>>3633677
So how tall/short are they compared to us?
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>>3633635
I'm probably wrong but does it mean Comforting Crimson Princess of The Bewitching Death God(ess)?
Fuck me, that's embarrassing to write.
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>>3633553
So you're saying Judas might've turned Circe into a trap? Unforgivable.
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>>3633635
>>3633685
from a fren who's good at moon
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>>3633638
I sincerely hope he's Lancer so that he's not fucking nuts when we meet him. Knowing this quest, though...

>>3633670
>Kikuko and Truvi though, ho boy.
I don't think those two were copies, and since turning people into Servants requires people juice, I fear for their lives.

>>3633685
Using Google-fu and what little I've picked up of the Japanese language over the years, I think the gist of the meaning is something like Picnic Princess of Smoldering Death (I feel your pain, that hurts to type), which explains the burnt houses and dinner. But I don't actually know Japanese, so take this with a grain of salt.
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>>3633684
(S)He Ranked A in the last thread, remember?
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>>3633716
His Mad Enhancement could be just E.
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>>3633712
short addendum:

>Though depends on context, 妖 can be calamity or bewitching

>>3633716
Exactly, we really need to have a talk witth Judas about the specifics of Akeldama.
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Seriously though, did Ogawara's change into becoming an oni really make him that bloodthirsty?
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>>3633685
You're missing some nuance. Like all properly chuuni names it's all branch meanings and branch readings.
妖 - Yō - Bewitching or Calamity. Here used for both. First kanji in yokai.
神 - jin - Read as a word, means god. As a kanji, can also refer to the soul or mind. A heroic spirit is ambiguous.
死 - shi - Death, of course.
の - no - Means "of" (though reversed from the english version) in proper JP, but also an archaic particle linking a name together as with von. Taira-no-Kiyomori is a classic example. Since Caster has no family, what (s)he was thinking is dubious.
紅 - Kō - Crimson.
楽 - raku - Used here in secondary meaning, music. Also the final kanji in camelia, the flowers Caster wears.
姫 - hime - TL note: hime means princess.
Altogether, Bewitching divinity of calamitous death, Kōrakuhime!
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>>3633733
Very likely yes. Oni are the fucking worst
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>>3633733
If it's eat people or die, I think most will accept the soul munching.
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>>3633712
>>3633731
Oh, I see I needn't have explained.
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>>3633677
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Where's his master?
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>>3633755
lightning round Oni-off

who hits al's strike zone the most, shuten ibaraki or ogawara
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>>3633712
>>3633716
>>3633742
>Kōrakuhime means Kōrakuhime
Goddammit. But yeah, I get the gist now. Guess that's what we're calling her.
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>>3633764
trick question, correct answer is "threesome"
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>>3633767
I spelled out the individual kanji meanings for you! I'd translate the whole thing as something like "crimson princess' song," but that's not very name-like.
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>>3633775
"Crimson Camelia Princess"?
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>>3633775
Does melodic works? >>3633779 sounds pretty good as well.
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>>3633764

ONI THOTS BEGONE, DEATH TO YOU AND YOUR FILTHY KIND IS DESERVED

>>3633773

>Lewding disgusting oni
>Lewding disgusting LOLI ONI

Anon you're going to deep into degeneracy
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>>3633779
>>3633783
"Crimson Camelia Princess" and "Crimson Singing Princess" would both work, sure. Double meanings are the beauty of kanji.
Anyway, you get the idea. Long chuuni name with way too many meaningful characters.
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>>3633684
In the Akeldama, Ogawara was already a few inches shorter than Yumigawa, and you've gotten taller since while Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime has grown shorter.
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Now that I think about it, Kōrakuhime is a Caster so she might be more rational than the other oni. Keyword: might. By the way, Sweets, are we going to end up asking both questions either way?
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>>3633800
But is it a cute height difference, though?
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>>3633800
I M A G I N E
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>>3633789
calm your tits raikou, jeez
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>>3633805
>>3633814
The codex does not approve of this line of thinking
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>>3633819

ONI BONES, MAKE SERVANT HOMES
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This is fucked. We're just one of several of Judas' "heroes" made by Akeldama. The others just rode our coat-tails to survive and benefited from our hard earned victory. We should reclaim the power they stole from us.
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>>3633638
>>3633716
If Matsuda really does end up as Berserker, just pray we get to him in time before some asshat decides to use Mad Enhancement. Otherwise, we'll just have to be forced to put him out of his misery (assuming of course, that he doesn't just become super focused on something rather than a raving lunatic).
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>>3633878
>Keiseki is the only planned hero to have not make it out.
Poor guy, he picked a fight with us and now his head is a soccer ball.
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>>3633839
Leave me alone, Raikou. I didn't even clear the shop on your stupid 95-raid event.
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>>3633918

Oni didn't take All your senses, limbs, voice and skin from you my senpai
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>>3633801
The most important thing is which subject matters most to Alberich.
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>>3633933
Then I'm going to switch >>3633646 to the Pride option.
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>>3633455

>[ ] "Why are you traveling through Tokyo slaughtering families?" (Compassion)

May as well get an idea to figure out if s/he has a master based on this since we could ask Judas himself how it came to be later.

I honestly wasn't expecting this to happen, shit since Truvi made it out and didn't become Caster what class would she appear as then?
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>>3633764
I thought about this for a while, and I'm going to have to say Ibaraki. Only when ranking looks, though.

>>3633789
>LOLI ONI
I also have this loli-oni-slayer, if you prefer.

>>3633805
Of course it's a cute height difference. You think I do non-cute height differences?
I don't know what height difference you think is cute, so I really can't say.
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>>3633956
I think a whole head's difference is my bare minimum.
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>>3633947
You raise a good point. I'm switching back to Compassion.
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>>3633960
Well then, you are in luck.
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
Oh, I was more expecting some strong Lancer but this is so much better.
Matsuda and Keiseki will probably be a thing too, won`t they? Hoping for Seigi no Mikata Matsuda Berserker and Assassin Keiseki in search for meaning of live next.
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>>3633997
>Keiseki
Anon...
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>>3634000
Don`t Dream Crusher EX me like that, Anon. There is still hope.
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>>3634009
>he dreams of keiseki being alive
Die, traitor!
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>>3634012

>Not wanting to kill Keiseki again
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I'm sure Ogawara's still shy, even though he's an oni, so my prior concerns about our chastity are probably unwarranted.
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>>3634023
Not to mention during the Akeldama, we tried to get him hooked up with a girl. This is certainly going to be awkward.
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>spoiler
But we didn't, we tried to work on his... confidence...
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>>3634012
>Not wanting Hassan of the Hundred Faces-esque faceless salaryman Assassin to spook everyone in this grail war only to get cheap shoted by us the moment he encounters us again face to face
It is like you can`t handle the fun things, Anon.
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>>3634040
>Hassan of the Hundred Faces-esque faceless salaryman Assassin
Keiseki embodying the concept of the "faceless salaryman"? He'd die of overwork firstbe a pretty interesting opponent, I guess.
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>>3634036
Like a true friend. I'm sure you're looking forward to seeing how your work has paid off.
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>>3634075
>went from tomoko to rikka
That's an improvement, alright.
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>>3634075
So for soundalikes is she now more Altera, Shishou, Bryn, or Fujino?
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>>3634111
Refer to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_A6fU7aiXs
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Well.
This was highly unexpected.
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
This Grail War is fucked.
FUCKED.
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So.
What are the odds that Ogawara and Matsuda became servants and Kikuko and Truvi contracted with our prior servants.
*SUDDENLY CASTER IS SUMMONED* sure would be a family emergency.
Seriously though Ogawara what the fuck.
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>>3634147
>thinking Kiku and Truvi made it out
anon...
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>>3634147
He read too much edgy isekai LNs.
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>>3634155
>thinking they didn't
Anon...
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Dunno if this is too spoilery to answer, but

>Akeldama War went smoothly
>Only one Hero candidate survived and didn't kill Judas

Would Vaisset just have had two servants to use straight up?
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>>3633455
Sweets, are you not capable of going one thread without another game-changing revelation? Not that I mind. I somewhat expected *something* else from the Akeldama to survive but-

Fuck It. If Caster doesn't have a Master, would they like one? ...Or would that just end with Caster ganking Ayaka, oh I can't tell.

>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
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>>3634173

It's why I went for the compassion vote honestly, discern whether or not they're eating people due to not having a master to supply mana or there is a master who just happens to be a callous asshole.

Still if we can't exactly prevent changing their mind to actually go for having a Master then that begs a question. What exactly happens to the Servant affected by Ayaka's ritual when it goes to us? Are they just in our inner mind/soul hanging out with Judas right now? Turned into power fuel? I'd imagine since we took on Durandal from Roland there'd be something that'd resemble him lingering around

We got A LOT of shit to be questioning Judas about now, once this fight is over we need to have a talk with the silverman
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>>3634182
>this fight
Fight?
I mean, unless Ogawara has a death sentence, she won't do shit.
Magical Barriers don't like working on space fucking anti-world shit.
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>>3634186
>death sentence
Death wish.
But Caster vs Saber close range is typically a Death Sentence for Caster.
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>>3634186

I say fight due to it being a possibility really, I do worry of what the Emiya family are gonna think of this. Well then again Rider ate plenty of people so who the hell are they to judge we bring in our own person eater?

Shit the Apocrypha war of Team Alberich vs. The World is gonna actually happen isn't it?
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>>3634195
I just realised, if we get both our servants back, recruit Ogawara and Matsuda and corrupt Saber...
Our team is fucking unbalanced as fuck
2 Sabers
2 Casters
2 Berserkers
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>>3634198

I'd prefer to gyp Saber in all honest, but I do see benefit to corrupting her. You know if Truvi also came back to the world as a Servant with Circe with her, what class would she fall into?
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>>3634202
Caster.
She's a magus.
And it's more likely that Circe is her servant and she's still human.
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>>3634182
Well all of the normal servant slots are taken, so then If they do have a master they're an extra themselves.

God, It Isn't something stupid like she's found Outer Yumigawa and made a contract with him Is It? Sweets said we'd meet the guy, with rogue servants littering the war he's gotta be a Master of somebody.
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>>3634206
>contracting the outer version of us.
>not contracting yourself
How dare she.
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>>3634202
>>3634204
Pseudo-Servant with Circe.
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>>3634211
>Pseudo-Servant Truvi and Kikuko
Oh shit.
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>>3634215
>Kikuko
>inb4 she's possessed by archer
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>>3634220
She'd be possessed by Adelheid.
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>>3634215

Hold on Anon that's too much

>Psuedo Servant Truvi and Goddess Circe
>Psuedo Servant Kikuko and Reich's Fuhrer Adelheid
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>>3634220
Someone post the reference image for Kikuko

I need it for...reasons
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>>3634220
STOP-
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...
So if Kourakuhime here was also created by Akeldama...
Does that mean...
We're her brother?
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>>3634226

No idea, but I do want to find out what everyone of the Akeldama gang Servants are capable of. Also to see if Keiseki is worth eating at all
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>>3634236
Keiseki is dead, anon.
Super dead.
He failed in his trial to become a hero.
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>>3634237

Oh Anon you poor innocent boy, vengeance is a powerful motivator to become a Servant
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>>3634226
>little sister is a Hikki NEET demon who has taken to eating people
Probably has true name discernment too, if her skills are based on Akeldama.
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>>3634242
No it's not.
You can't just die and expect to become a Servant.
He never saw his death coming, not like he cursed his own death.
Yumi didn't become a Servant in any of the bad ends.
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>>3634246
Well she did call us Alberich.
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>>3634251
Yeah, but we've been fairly loose with telling it to people.
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>>3634246
Maybe she just used some magecraft of some kind. If becoming a Saber can give us swordsmanship, it can give Kourakuhime some knowledge of magecraft (maybe Judas knows some?)
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>>3634254
None of the people we've given our name would have any reason to tell Kourakuhime.
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>>3634260
She is Caster.
She can likely scry.
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>>3634261

Of course but he means what ELSE can s/he do?
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>>3634223
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>>3634263
Cook, shitpost on anonymous imageboards, do bonus damage against other females, Video Games Mastery C++ and Wisdom of Drawn Worlds A++.
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The real question is if we should call her our little sister for a critical hit.
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>>3634281
get on my level anon
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>>3634281
>>3634298
Stop.
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>>3634298
>>3634281
Stop It, at this rate you're going to make Archer coming back real.

>>3634296
That'd be fun and even fitting, but then by that logic We'd have to call Judas 'Daddy'.
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>>3634296
"I am sorry I was such a failure of an Elder Brother that you, my innocent little sister, resorted to cannibalism and squatting. I promise that from now one no schemes of our father will stop me from setting things right."
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>>3634296
>>3634319
That might just end up setting her upon us.
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>>3634320
Oh no.
How terrible.
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>>3634322
Yes? I want to at least stay pure until we get Circe and Adelheid back.
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>>3634318
Since he was a sacrifice and now part of us it is more likely that we would just temporary summon makeshift of him for assist from leftover parts.
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>>3634322
>Either we get a Servant as an ally, or we bait her Into giving us a free powerup

This Is the power of 400 IQ, gentlemen.
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>>3634323
"Ayaka we need to run! Caster is trying to sexually assault me!"
"Wha-"
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>>3634325
>actively wanting to kill Ogawara
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>>3634331
>actively caring about Ogawara
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>>3634358
>not caring about your little sister
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
God if Circe is in his(her?) body like Judas is in our I'm gonna be so peeved!
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>>3634361
>little sister
She's exactly as old as us.
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>>3634365
So?
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>>3634363
The worst case scenario.
Let's hope that doesn't come to pass.
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>>3634371
And what's best case scenario?
Because Psuedo Servant Goddess Circe and Psuedo Servant Adelheid along with Kōrakuhime and whatever the fuck Matsuda is right now sounds pretty optimal.
Even it it's a lot of mouths to feed.
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>>3633455
>[ ] "How is it that you've become a Servant?" (Pride)
>daughter is a hikki NEET
>second son is a blood thirsty delinquent with attitude
>oldest son is a sociopathic lolicon
Poor judas, being a single dad is a demanding and thankless job
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>>3634399
Anon, what he means is that Circe might be a part of his core like Judas is a part of ours.
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>>3634399
Yeah that's probably the best case scenario.
Worst case is if they are in Ogawara and Matsuda with little influence.
Best case is if they've been contracted to Kikuko and Truvi or have possessed them with full control.
Gee Alberich, how come Judas lets you have FOUR servants?
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>>3634405
It was a hole of his own digging. He should've known he was headed for trouble when he decided to raise his family in a devastated city in the middle of his pocket reality.
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>>3634405
>meanwhile Matsuda is dismantling Yakuza rings as revenge for his friend using his newfound superpowers.
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>>3634409
>Gee Alberich, how come Judas lets you have FOUR servants?
Strong dad of the year candidate right here.
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>>3634413
And they thought the Einzbern were the cheaters.
This is why the Caster Class should be banned from grail wars.
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>>3634405
We really do make an interesting bunch huh?
Man now you got me excited to get the boys back together!
[The Boys are Back in Town muffled in the background]

>>3634407
And what I MEAN is that while what you said would suck as I said before, Circe and Adelheid taking over Truv and Kikuko's bodies would be amazing.

>>3634409
I'm trying so hard to curb my enthusiasm, but the possibilities!
Is this the power of Dream Crusher EX?
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>>3634415
"Are Ya Winning, Son?"
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>>3634412
>matsuda escaped from akeldama as a berserker
>he has no idea where everyone is so he goes to beat up yakuza for information
>he runs into goons from the fujimura group who are tailing taiga so she doesn't get into trouble with rival gangs
>he ends up making friends with taiga, who is there to visit shirou, and goes with her
>he finds alberich and korakuhime
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>>3634417
https://youtu.be/1WAlkyxz2mU
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>>3634417
Theoretical FGO villain Alberich isn't just a dream now.
His team
>Kōrakuhime
>Matsuda (name pending)
>Saber Alter
>Adelheid inhabiting Kikuko
>Circe (divinity restored) inhabiting Truvi, with Goddess' divine core and EX Magical Energy
>Alberich after eating almost every Servant in this war and mastering his magic
Now the real question is who is 4* and who is 5*?
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Isn't it a little early to assume that Ogawara is still a trustworthy ally? Surely he's got his own motivations.
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>>3634438
>he
Rude. Our cute demon sister won't betray us, I hope.
She merely has to accept us as her older brother, and her king.
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>>3634438
Maybe we would know if we ask him why he's eating people. So far the vote count is at 5/11 (C/P)
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>>3634438
I'm not assuming anything. I want to find out how he became a Servant, what he's been doing and why he's roasting and eating people.
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>>3634446
>>3634447
I bet he's eating people because he's an Oni and he's a masterless servant, so he needs to get his energy from elsewhere or he'll disappear.
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>>3634438
It's unlikely that he isn't at least fond of us. His interaction until now showed it.
But even should this not be the case we are almost guaranteed to be stronger than her, since we were the hero of Akeldama and we absorbed a servant since getting out and we have a master.
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>>3634438
Ogawara-Kōrakuhime seems to be hit pretty hard by ego death and mostly operates on instincts of a new oni body (wanton killing and arson). From our short talk it is already seems that our Extra Caster is pretty eager to met us and still struggling with new self. Diplomacy road looks pretty possible and plausible so far.
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>>3634446
That wouldn't really tell us anything besides why he killed random people. The answer to that is almost certainly to survive without a master.
Not something that tells us much besides that he has an existent self-preservation instinct.
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Waot
if we keep Kōrakuhime around our entire relationship with the emiyas will become a huge juggling act wouldn't?
May be best to break off our alliance once berserker is down
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>>3634446
>Alberich on the way here: "I could really go for the magical energy of 36 million people right about now."
I don't think we're in any position to scold her.
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>The miracles born by your Heiligöffnungschwert are the Three Miracles of the Gate and the Key."
The voice pauses for a moment, perhaps for dramatic effect, before listing off in jubilant tones, "The power to cut through the boundaries between the worlds, to project from itself openings to Our realm! To bring into your world and sustain there in spite of its vile physical laws the impossibilities which in Our world, by Our authority, are possible! To make real in your world the Nothingness and Void from which you were born, and which are there condemned to be Imaginary Elements!"

>To bring into your world and sustain there in spite of its vile physical laws the impossibilities which in Our world, by Our authority, are possible!

I wonder if this miracle of HGS could be used to help sustain a Servant's existence in the real world as well.
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>>3634475
Maybe if we asked the gods really nicely.
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>>3634475
I'm still hoping to get it to EX rank.
Maybe if we appease a Smithing God
Sustaining Servants though...
I don't know.
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>>3634475
>by Our authority
Mmm
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>>3634483
It's fine, we just need to eat Achilles and channel his divinity into HOS. What could go wrong?
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>>3634475
It should work. In the worst case we can still become hime's master and provide the mana with our Mana B rank stat.
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>>3634488
Everything?
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>>3634488
Seems like a waste.
We likely just need to impress/empower the gods to level it up to EX.
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>>3634489
That's really not how it works.
At all.
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>>3634495
>That's really not how it works.
A bit of explanation would be nice you know?
It's not exactly a big topic in what I watched from fate, but I'm sure servants can provide mana though we might lack command seals.
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>>3634504
We're already a mana drain on our master, so if we shared any with another servant we'd be weaker and/or just putting more strain on Ayaka.
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>>3634507
Yes, but the drain should be shared with the grail and she shouldn't get the full cost.
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>>3634504
A Servant can't be a Master.
Medea managed it by fucking around with the system and by being Medea.
Her Assassin wasn't even a proper assassin because of this.
And we rely on Ayaka for magical energy.
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>>3634511
Sure, but they can provide mana which is what we need. The command seals are a good power up, but not necessary for us to have a useful ally.
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>>3634510
That wouldn't matter, you're still heaping on even more mana drain
Fucking hell, people have died from the mana drain before
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>>3634516
It does matter a lot. If it's well within the strain she can take and with caster we can look into getting something working with the leylines too.
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>>3634512
Command spells are necessary though.
Read the VN.
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>>3634512
Servants are always a drain on some source of mana. They would never provide a net gain of mana. I don't know what you're talking about
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>>3634489
Servants aren't supposed to be Masters.
>>3634490
pfft, nah, no way
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>>3634519
>Command spells are necessary though.
Caster seems to manage well enough without command seals right now.
>>3634520
>Servants are always a drain on some source of mana.
To clarify the sentence was a servant can provide mana to another servant.
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>>3634520
Unless she hooks up to a Leyline.
But that will quickly get attention.
I wonder what the bad luck is about...
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>>3634510
Sharing the drain is necessary just to be able to live. Remember, it took our Servant-level Od stories to support both Circe and Adelheid; if we gave Ayaka another Servant, it would leave her bedridden for the rest of the War unless she knew how to draw more Mana from the leyline.
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>>3634523
Caster forged fake command spells for Kojiro.
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>>3634523
>Caster seems to manage well enough without command seals right now.
She's not a Master.
Masters need command spells.

She's surviving by hunting and killing people, and at this rate she's going to attract attention from Antaglio.
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>>3634524
Right, that's why I like the idea of hooking servants up to the IR via HGS as an energy source to sustain them. It should go unnoticed by the overseer and it gives us a position of power over them since we can supply them energy or cut them off if they get uppity.
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>>3634525
Good that hime most likely knows how to do that.
>>3634526
I'm talking about hime here not Medea. She's not dead so using kisses like in Akeldama should be possible.
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>>3634528
Oh right yeah, and this too.
You can't contract with a Servant without command spells.
Medea proves it.
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>>3634529
HOS drains energy to access the IN Realm. Any gain from there would be lesser than the drain from forming and holding the opening.
Not to mention Alberich doesn't know how to do something like that, Ayaka probably doesn't know either, and HOS may not even have that power.
>>3634530
>using kisses
No.
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>>3634530
If Hime knows how to use Leylines she wouldn't be going around literally eating people.
Or somebody else has set up at the Leyline and forced her away.
But only Circe should be knowledgeable enough to do that.
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>>3634535
Maybe. But the god really emphasized that the miracles of HGS run off of their power, which might mean that it doesn't use much of our own energy.
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>>3634538
She might have been forced away which is easy since she had no mana supply as a caster, but should be a lot harder if we clear the space.
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>>3634542
There shouldn't be anyone around capable of Medea-ing the Leylines though.
Unless Circe is laying low and using them I don't see what could have convinced Hime to go around eating families.
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>>3634540
It means the miracles are granted by them, and its description notes that Alberich exerts his miraculous power "by expending a great deal of energy".
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>>3634549
It doesn't need to be someone using the leyline. Just someone deciding they don't want a caster to set up on a leyline.
Or maybe Hime didn't even try for fear of meeting a servant, because currently even Assassin might kill her.
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>>3634549
>There shouldn't be anyone around capable of Medea-ing the Leylines though.
The Einzberns might be doing it.
Or, as >>3634455 noted, she might be overwhelmed by her Oni instincts telling her to eat people since she's hungry.
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I want to know how the fuck she knows our name.
And why she's acting so smug.
Damn NEET, instead of getting a job working as a Servant she's just going around eating people.
Get a job, imouto-chan.
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>>3634551
Ah shit you're right. If we're lucky it's just a large initial energy cost but there's only one way to find out
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>Desire goes up by three after seeing Kōrakuhime
Alberich what are you thinking man
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>>3634586
Probably [Curiosity].
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>>3634575
I would say that your guess earlier about skills being based on Akeldama is probably correct. Since it makes the most sense given that we know and already set precedent with our own skills.
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>[Curiosity]
Hoo boy...
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>>3634596
hate to pop your cherry, baby, but we don't stick our dick in crazy before the third date
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NOT GAY IF ONI.
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>>3634589
>The only things we had Kōrakuhime do in the Akeldama was cook and research the names of enemy servants
Man, I hope we can take control of this super utility servant somehow. I doubt Ayaka can manage a second servant, but man....
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>>3634607 #
We also had him play dress up.
She might have a shapeshifter skill.
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>>3634610
Oh what in the name of fuck.
>Oni Kind Demon (鬼種の魔, Oni-shu no Ma?) is a Skill that represents the superpower as well as the demonic nature of an Oni. Only Oni and mixed-race beings with Oni blood can acquire this skill. A mixed Skill of Natural Monster, Monstrous Strength, Charisma, Mana Burst, etc. The version of Mana Burst depends on the user, but it is usually 'Heat'.
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>>3634618
This is a skill all the FGO Oni have.
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>>3634618
Her rank is probably B, maybe A if she's a full-blooded Oni.
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>>3634623
So if we're forced to kill her in the end and she has the skill, taking this skill (if we tell Ayaka to set up the ritual) might make us an Oni.
That might not be so good.
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>>3634625
>killing one of our actual for realsies friends
Anon no
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>>3634647
First Kōrakuhime-chan, next all of Tokyo!
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>>3634647
Friends is a strong word to be fair
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>possibly 5 extra servants, 4 of which are aligned to extra Saber
Antaglios gonna freak!

But yeah, it's possible that Truvi is contracted with one of our Servants now.
Be that a Pseudo-Servant contract or a normal one.
It's a perfect reason for Luvia to be called back from shutting down the war if the Edelfelts actually get to compete.
Kikuko is also possibly contracted.
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>>3634671
Well, it's the second closest thing Alberich has to a friend, other than Matsuda.
Also the second person Alberich ever met.
Also, she's technically his sister.
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>>3634676
>sister
>implying Alberich wants to imitate the pathetic human concept of a family
Alberich is beyond such things
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>>3634672
>inb4 this war turns into some massive team battle where it's ~six of the normally-summoned servants versus Alberich, Bahsaka Matsuda, Kōrakuhime, and the Emiyas
Sweets wouldn't do that, right?

>>3634676
Look, Alberich is a hero. Killing friends, sisters, people near and dear to childhoods? That's 100% hero shit senpai.
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>>3634684
No.
Alberich will protect all of his little sisters.
>>3634686
>Six of the normally summoned Servants
Ha! Make that 5. Thanks for the sword Roland. But honestly, turning this war into a team effort would be a mess.
Protecting our siblings is non negotiable.
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>>3634684
Even the Gods had families anon.
Nothing wrong with a group of individuals coming together to provide support for each other.
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>>3634686
Also
>not putting Adelheid and Circe on our team
We've got confirmation that we aren't the only survivor, they will return to us.
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>>3634704
>implying they aren't already by our side
Where do you think we got our noble phantasms from anon?
Our dad turned our waifus into weapons so that they may always serve us
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>>3634716
>Where do you think we got our noble phantasms from anon?
We got Kenótis from the cape Circe made, so that theory thankfully falls flat.
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>>3634716
>>3634718
Yeah and we got our Minds Eye C from the gloves.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say we shared the 6 servants.
2 for us are the two we just happen to be able to attempt a NP replication of (Archer and Rider)
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>>3634721
I feel like we ought to have any of Justinian (definite since we're Saber), Cunt Eastwood, Perseus and Robin Hood in us, seeing as those classes were what we had.
Where do you think our skill with the sword came from, if not Justinian?
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>>3634761
>had
Could have had, rather.

we might have them maybe once we reach the throne
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>>3634761
>>3634763
>Alberich gets all the male servants
>Kōrakuhime got Circe's power, which turned him into the fe(male) caster
>Matsuda got Adelheid's power, which maybe turned him into a fe(male) Berserker
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>>3634783
>which maybe turned him into a fe(male) Berserker
>Sukeban-serker representing burning spirit of youth.
Probably way too cheese to actually happen.
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>>3634783
Whatever happened to our servants, they weren't absorbed.
I think.
Man I hope Truvi is contracted(and isn't dead) to Adelheid/Circe and is on her way to Tokyo.
The fucking look on her face when she sees Berserker(?) Matsuda, Kōrakuhime and Alberich all as servants will be incomparable.
>"What the fuck why didn't I get to become a Servant and random Japanese Highschoolers did?"
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>a fe(male) Berserker
No.
Matsuda doesn't deserve that.
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I seriously hope Matsuda is taking this as an opportunity to beat up Yakuza thugs.
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>>3634824
I seriously hope Matsuda has met Taiga by now.
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>>3634824
That would certainly be a fun explanation about whats keep Antaglio occupied at the moment.
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>>3634844
Well as long as he's staying out of trouble and isn't eating children.
I can't believe Orphan Juice rebranded as Newly Orphaned Juice, I think I preferred the chunk free recipe too.
I guess times were hard for them after Gilgamesh got himself eaten by a pissed off orphan.

Four kids in this house alone. I feel like we're glossing over that.

Kōrakuhime would be totally in character asking Shirou how many breads he has eaten.
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>>3634854
Full list of fuckery that will give Antaglio a heart attack if he reads it:
>caster is judas iscariot
>judas held a grail war inside the grail war
>judas replaced himself with another saber who didn't exist before the inner war
>false saber ate a piece of rider and made his np better
>false saber is collaborating with outsiders to stop the war
>judas actually made three new heroes
>the gnostics were right
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>>3634895
Don't forget that there might be an Ex Goddess and Literally Hitler ready to get involved in the war too.
It's just
It's just all kinds of fucked.
Nobody on the Masters sides even tried to break the war this time.
It was all that prick Judas.

Even when everyone plays fair it still breaks.
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>>3634870
>I can't believe Orphan Juice rebranded as Newly Orphaned Juice, I think I preferred the chunk free recipe too.
>I guess times were hard for them after Gilgamesh got himself eaten by a pissed off orphan.
bro, you should try Homunculus Soda, it's an eco-friendly substitute that uses only mindless homunculi instead of orphans
>Four kids in this house alone. I feel like we're glossing over that.
Of course we are. They couldn't have been very important if they weren't even named.
>Kōrakuhime would be totally in character asking Shirou how many breads he has eaten.
alberich holds exclusive monopoly over all jojo references, sorry
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>>3634910
>Nobody on the Masters sides
Except the Einzberns.
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>>3634910
>It was all that prick Judas.
It's like he saw the history of the war and said "You summoned all the world's evil into the grail? I'm gonna do one better!"
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>>3634910
Anyone starting to miss the Akeldama? At least that was simpler (relatively) than what we're doing right now.
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>>3634910
>hold another HGW with a new grail because the old one is fucked beyond belief
>immediately gets ruined by some guy who told his servant to upgrade himself without hearing the specifics
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But what if we empower Kōrakuhime with another Servant kill, make her copy Akeldama and do another Akeldama to improve our chances of victory in this war?
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>>3634281
I'm not gonna lie, this was hilarious.

>>3634318
>spoiler
Dad Ajisartous

>>3634575
>I want to know why she's acting so smug
>Damn NEET
Answered your own question, anon.

>>3634586
I just hadn't updated the emotion stats in the last couple of days. There were three events that drove it up by 1. One of those was meeting Kōrakuhime.

>>3634956
This is why Caster should be banned.
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>"I want to see a nice clean grail war, where you 7 servants battle to the death until there's a single victor, good lu-"
>"DID SOMEBODY ORDER EXTRA SERVANTS?"
>"JUDAS NO!"
>"DID SOMEBODY ORDER A FACTION WITH THEIR OWN EXTRA SERVANT TRYING TO SHUT THE WAR DOWN?"
Etc.
There might be Extra Extra Servants if Adelheid and Circe around.
Extra Extra Berserker and Extra Extra Caster.
What an absolute fucking meme of a grail war.
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>>3635017
Y'know it's funny how much chaos Akeldama made and how nonchalant Vaisset was about activating it
>hey i can get a power boost if i sacrificed 1000 souls
>yeah sure
>10 threads later
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>>3635010
>this is why Caster should be banned
But think of their great record!
>Gilles tried to kill the entire city
>Medea kills her Master and then tries her hardest to fuck with the grail
What a great class, where nothing could go wrong! It's not like the class explicitly able to summon Servants better at magecraft than the 3 founding families could be a bad thing!
How did the Caster class even get through the first brainstorm.
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>>3635029
I mean that Mastercide was justified.
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>>3635029
Actually, having all Servants as Casters would incredibly fit the image of lazy mages. Don't know how to access the Root? Summon someone, threaten them to die and watch them go trying to hack the process for you. Incredibly convenient!
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>>3635065
>threaten your Caster with death
The problem with this is that they can just as easily kill you with a word.
And they would.
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>>3635075
I suppose as long as important magical science gets done, it barely matters. It's not like the current process is safe and goes without any sacrifices.
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>>3635084
You really think summoning 7 of the most bullshit class would be safe?
Casters are typically the weakest against the other classes but nightmarishly strong against humans.
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>>3635097
I think that for the purposes of finding bullshit magical source it would be much more convenient. Either it all goes horribly wrong pretty much immediately and no one ever tries it again or some combination of bullshit from each respective Caster used creatively will solve that problem in a couple of days at the cost of one destroyed neighborhood and most of the summoners, after which who cares about the cost because bullshit magical source is achieved and mages can fuck things up much faster now.
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I hope our new sister doesn't arbitrarily come up with some lame excuse to fight us.
Unless she wants to die.
Lucky for her we're one of the few Servants that wouldn't react to this with disgust and instantly attacking.
She seemed happy to see us though.
Better pledge your allegiance to us Kōrakuhime, I don't wish to kill you.
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>>3635017
Is there a singular caster that doesn't attempt to throw the grail war off the rails?
Even the author caster fuck shit up
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>>3635148
Paracelcus?
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>>3635163
I'm pretty sure murdering his master counts
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>>3635182
He was manipulated into it by some absolute megabullshit.
Then he felt really bad about it.
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>>3635182

I'm also pretty sure a few Servants have always wanted to murder their masters
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>>3635010
Thanks! I could probably whip up a full body edit of Clintuko if you want
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>>3635241
plsno
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>>3635241
Thanks, but no thanks. Best to leave it as a one-off joke, I think.
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>>3635241
Please, YES.
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It's a good thing that the Emiyas aren't with us for this.
Shirou would've had a fucking fit and done something stupid and explodey.
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>>3635400
You know it. The question now is, how are you going to protect Kōrakuhime from the Emiyas?
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>>3635409
By not telling them about her (him).
>"The killings are over because I, Alberich, have dealt with the servant involved"
Simple as.
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>>3635409
Well, until we know her full situation here, we can't really plan anything.
I can't imagine she was anything but relieved that the Servant that showed up wasn't one that would instantly attack and was in fact somebody she knew.
Unless she's been scrying.
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>>3635427
>killings continue
>*internal grinding sounds*
>"Blast! They must have had a self resurrection Noble Phantasm!"
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>>3635409
>>3635441
Yeah, we still need to know WHY she's eating people. If it's a matter of sustenance then we might be able to do something about that in INS.
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>>3635427
Ok.
Next question then.
How do we feed her?
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>>3635457
Homeless People and Yakuza.
Unless she for some reason really wants to eat kids.
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>>3635456
>>3635449
I have no idea about how to power her (him). If we have no way of permanently empowering her (him), and no way of binding her (him) to Alberich's will that isn't appealing to our past bond/threatening physical violence, she (he) will simply have to die.
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Well, there's one way, I suppose...
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>>3635468
If only we were in America.
Tons of prisoners and homeless there she could munch on.
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>>3635475
>killing our Sister
Why?
She's some Oni NEET.
An ONEET if you would.
Not exactly a threat to our future rule.
And she's kind of already been our direct underling for most of her life.
She'll make the right choice.
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A note. This is something I couldn't really think of how best to convey in english, but Kōrakuhime uses archaic, highly formal Japanese (except for the part where she returns to Ogawara-speech).
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>>3635499
>Has to eat people to exist
Too troublesome an entity to be left alive if this is the case. Too much negative attention. And, of course, we could get a powerup in the tragic scenario where we have to kill her.
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>>3635510
Oh wow, both Ogawara and Rushorou are really hamming it up when it comes to trying to sound mysterious and Servantlike aren't they?
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>>3635510
Thanks.
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>>3635526
Oh yeah. Chewing the scenery like stale hardtack.
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>>3635526
Or maybe judas hard coded them to be more heroic
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>>3635483
With or without coffee/cherry candy?
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>>3635518
>Has to eat people to exist
>like Alberich gives a single remote fuck about these people.
He was born to rule, not born to care.
She probably just needs the energy which she can't otherwise get. Ibaraki and Shuten don't go around eating Chaldea employees, do they?

I can't wait to find out Taiga accidentally managed to contract with Matsuda.
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>>3635510
Thats pretty cute.
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>>3635533
At this rate I can't wait to see Servant Matsuda.
He won't put the slightest effort into it, I feel.
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>>3635483
There are so many parallels between these two pairs, it's amazing.

>>3635539
At long last, JAGUARMAN!
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>>3635539
I said negative attention anon. It's troublesome if our ally, who brings only marginal combat assistance (although that scrying and name discernment is useful), brings the wrath of all these "heroes" and associations down on Alberich's head.
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>>3635557
We can't just abandon our Sister because she might cause us trouble.
In fact, I know one faction that doesn't give a single moment's thought to civilian deaths.
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>>3635483
>making Alberich a degenerate
Adelheid wouldn't approve of gay behavior. And yes, like traps is gay.
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>>3635578
>implying I'm referring to Alberich
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>>3635578
But what if the girl was at one point a guy but is now a girl?
Is that gay?
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>>3635563
>We can't just abandon our Sister
Our "sister". This misbegotten demon is not Alberich's family. It is tangentially related at most, an unfortunate side effect of his ascension. The gods know that most of their "kin" are not family. Why should Alberich act any differently?
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>>3635578
You realize, I hope, who Adelheid was and whose memories she has?
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>>3635587
>>3635591

Can she mother a child biologically? If yes, good. If no, fake and gay.
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>>3635591
Yes. That's exactly my point.
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>>3635596
>wanting to make half-blood oni children with your psychotically traumatized sister
Well, thats pretty hero thing to do, I`ll give you that.
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>>3635602
Hey, I was just making a simple distinction to help resolve this dilemma. I would not lewd the demon personally.
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>>3635596
She's a servant so most likely not.
>>3635599
That she would be hypocritical and complain about Hime being a boy before becoming a servant?
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>>3635609
Regardless mana transfer isn't any more gay than CPR.
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We should probably try to fix Kōrakuhime's state of mind as soon as possible, assuming she wants it to be fixed.
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>>3635588
Exactly. I don't give a shit about this thing just like I never gave a shit about Ogawara. I doubt that anyone did. This is just waifufags being waifufags now that he's a "girl"
>>3635609
I didn't support doing that either. I'm under the impression that (insert chuuni name here) is still a male, unlike Adelheid who is much further removed from her origin
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>>3635619
Also I know complaining about waifus in a fate quest is beyond stupid but here we are
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>>3635619
>wanting to hold on to one of the few things that were uniquely ours, and not some derivative of somebody else's memories, is waifufaggotry
Let me guess: you'd say the same about Matsuda if he got Saberface'd, despite being the closest thing that we had to being a "friend" in Akeldama?
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>>3635618
Hopefully they won't mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if they want to keep their confidence.
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>>3635628
No because we were genuinely friends with Matsuda.
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>>3635619
>Exactly. I don't give a shit about this thing just like I never gave a shit about Ogawara. I doubt that anyone did. This is just waifufags being waifufags now that he's a "girl"
Not really? I mean Oguwara was our ally before and we did keep them alive and watched over them even when it was inconvenient.
And now Hime is really useful as an extra Caster with no real loyalties outside Alberich.
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>>3635628
Well, if he's not a liability then I see no reason not to recruit him. The problem with Kōrakuhime is that she is indirectly a threat to Alberich's continued existence and eventual total victory atm. Such problems cannot be allowed to persist.
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>>3635628
>got Saberface'd
I believe the term your looking for is "was designed by Takeuchi"
>>3635619
>Ogawara
>quite literally one of the few people in existence Alberich has fond memories of
>doesn't care about him
???
This is proof to Alberich that he isn't truly alone (as Ogawara is the same sort of existence, I feel) and that his actions in Akeldama held value.
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>>3635640
Why would she be?
There's more than enough incarnation juice to go around.
She's a NEET ffs. She likely hasn't suddenly made world domination plans.
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>>3635634
Then let's kill everyone that isn't Matsuda, Circe, or Adelheid, since they were the only ones of any effectual value. Yes, this includes Kikuko. Damn keeping them alive in the first place, making up the foundation of the one (1) principle that we could even pretend to have.
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>>3635645
If she has to continue killing randos to exist, she will draw negative attention. In addition, without binding command seals or any other concrete way of controlling her, she cannot be relied upon as an ally. I'm thinking purely in the short term rn.
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>>3635640
We are literally allied with the faction that not only wants to stop the grail war, but would also get us ganged up on by everyone else if our association became public.
Hime is not as much a threat as them.
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>>3635619
>unlike Adelheid who is much further removed from her origin
Except she has 50 years of memories of life as Hitler.
Ogawara has 18 years worth of memories of being a social outcast anime watching chan user.
Except Adelheid somewhat was Hitler once.
Hime was never Ogawara.
Just like we were never Rushorou.
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>>3635653
Fun fact, we literally never used a command spell in Akeldama until the very end.
They aren't needed for commands if your Servant likes you
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>>3635659
Fun fact, if we hadn't sealed Adelheid I don't think there's an anon in the quest who would have been in favor of "recruiting" her. A servant with no seals is a dangerous element to have loose.

>>3635654
We can stop associating with the Emiyas as soon as we want. Not so if we bring in this extra caster.
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>>3635662
We had a single use command spell for her, only good for a single "kill self."
Another thing.
The command spells are needed so a Servant doesn't just decide they run the show, with their true purpose being suiciding them.
As a Servant ourselves, we don't really need them.
Hell, if she betrays us (doubt she will) she dies from a rift cut which will easily bypass any magic barrier or defence she tries.
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>>3635662
>Fun fact, if we hadn't sealed Adelheid I don't think there's an anon in the quest who would have been in favor of "recruiting" her. A servant with no seals is a dangerous element to have loose.
Yeah, first you are comparing a Berserker to a Caster then you are comparing someone we knew for a very short time to someone we knew from the beginning of Akeldama to the end and then someone who is visibly fond of us to the Berserker who decided to kill us despite despising her master. This is not a good comparison at all.
>We can stop associating with the Emiyas as soon as we want. Not so if we bring in this extra caster.
We can just as much stop associating with her than the Emiyas. I'm not sure why you think it would be more complicated.
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>>3635674
>Walk away from the insular spellcasters with no completely solid methods of tracking you down, and with no reason to do so
versus
>Walk away from the rogue caster, who obviously knows who we are, is at least a little crazy, and is CASTER
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>>3635695
You mean the caster who would be dependent on us for mana? Versus walking away from the servant Rider, Emiya, Sakura and Rin?
And we can't really walk away from the Emiyas and expect them to keep it a secret that we worked together.
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>>3635695
But we were the ones who tracked her down?
Look, Caster could be an invaluable ally, we don't need total control over everyone.
She's not going to find an ally even close to as good as us.
Also
>at least a little crazy
What gave it away? The Four Child Broth?
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I think trying stay true to people we first emotionally connected with and did so on our own free will, whom also got caught in the same circumstances as us and got less lucky makes for more compelling story and characters. Especially if all of it done against all odds.
I hope people who will vote to go for the kill next update will do so on other similar possible situations like Einzbern loli, Emiyas and such. Just to stick to this personal trait of removing potential obstacles and inconveniences with a quick stab mostly disregarding other factors involved.
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>>3635706
>You mean the caster who would be dependent on us for mana?
You see, if this is the case then I'm ok with it. But until then I must oppose it.

>>3635708
>we don't need total control over everyone.
Madness.
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>>3635715
I can't believe some anons are advocating hurting our own sister like this.
Heartless.
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>>3635719
You do realise that throughout Akeldama our control of Circe was nothing to do with the command spells and was all to do with the fact that she fell for Yumigawa.
She could kill us before we even finished a sentence, if she wished.
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>351 Posts
>Only the second vote

Man these threads are active
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>>3635715
Pssh, maaaaaan, who needs loyalty to anybody but Circe and Adelheid? Everybody knows that we've only truly cared about those two anyway. Personelly, if I had it my way, I would've liked everyone. Heh.
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>>3635766
killed*
Well, there goes that.
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>>3635729
Would've killed you, if you hadn't been immune to the kykeon.
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I can see that we're all fairly conflicted about this, so I'd like to propose an idea.

Should we be able to become ally with Hime here we could make good use of an allied Caster, gathering the old Akeldama crew's Servant selves would be a fine idea. They had proved themselves to be loyal vassals when push comes to shove, I'm not looking to simply kill them off for the sake of them being a possible nuisance to not deal with.

Shit with the assistance of a new Caster here that has memories of us being a fairly well enough friend, then I'd rather take along the new ally who can help in dealing with other Servants. Should we go for betraying the Emiya family like mentioned then I think it'd be best we have as much assistance in bringing them down as we can. We have four potential new allies to be had for dealing in this war
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>>3635775
Yeah.
Honestly, of all the Servants, if you summon Caster, you better fucking hope they like you.
Generally Saber, Lancer, Archer and Rider will have some sort of code of honour where they won't betray you
Berserker isn't really capable of betraying you
Hassan Assassins won't betray you and tend to be very loyal.
Summoning non-standard Assassins is a bad idea though.

But Casters don't really have any code they carry themselves with and usually have no issue betraying the worthless magi ordering them about.

Of course exceptions exist. Spartacus or Lu Bu would fuck you up in any class.
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>>3635719
>Madness.
Are you seriously worrying over control in regards to Hime when we have a bleeding heart master with command spells that could do anything she wishes if she opposes our methods or when she decides she agrees more with the Emiyas? Or when we are allied with the Emiyas who are absolutely more powerful than Hime here, are opposed to our true goals and who only help us because we deceive them?
Hime is isolated, has nobody besides us, is basically guaranteed to be weaker than us, not even mentioning every other servant in this war, who only remembers us as the guy protecting them when it didn't really gave us an advantage.
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>>3635795
The only conflict is like two guys.
Matsuda will likely be a servant
Kikuko and Truvi are unlikely, yet they might have contracted with Circe and Adelheid.
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When will Sweets stop putting these huge plot twists into every Awakening thread?
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>>3635946
When we stop tripping over so many flags.
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>>3635946
Never. Welcome to the moonlit world anon, the ride never ends.
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>>3635970
All we have to do is stop triggering them. :^)
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>wanting to make half-blood oni children with your psychotically traumatized sister
Iconic phrase. Can we make this the thread description in the archive already?
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>>3635602
>>3636002
It is pretty great, I must admit.
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>>3636006
Now how do we rehabilitate her? Going by her erratic behavior, he definitely didn't have anyone to help her cope with her existential crisis like we did.
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>>3636010
she*
Forgot to put the 's' back in after editting.
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>>3636010
She's got us now though.
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>>3636010
I think making sure she doesn't need to murder innocent people every day would do a lot of good for her mental health. Having a friend to talk with and not being alone should help too.
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The emotion that fills you, more than the anger at Ogawara's prevarication with the topic of names or the confusion at murder being committed by one who seemed too gentle for such acts, is shock. You thought you had come to understand just what it was that happened in the Akeldama. There were a thousand and forty-nine human souls and nine Servants, all summoned to be sacrificed in the creation of a single new hero: yourself. Now one of those human souls sits before you as a Servant who dines on human life. What the hell is going on?

"How is it that you've become a Servant," you demand, your composure lost, slamming a fist on the table to punctuate your words. The impact shakes Kōrakuhime's china plate and cut crystal glass, sending a droplet of blood over the plate's rim and onto the table. Red lips purse in a tiny frown as Kōrakuhime eyes the spatter, rapidly staining the white tablecloth. There's a moment of silence before she answers, and you can feel anger radiating from that almost-immobile face.

"You feel... betrayed, I suppose," she finally replies, "I know how you value information, Alberich. And of course, one's identity is always a very sensitive subject. My existence, as a Servant, challenges your conception of your own. Your anger is not unjustified. Nevertheless, I would... hope that a person of your calibre could remain civil in all circumstances."

You let out a long sigh, forcing your heated temper to cool. It's obvious that anger will get you nowhere with this bizarre Caster, Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime. The easily intimidated aspect of Ogawara is one that has been lost, apparently. In any case, she does have a point; cold logic is what has kept you alive through your tribulations, not emotion.

"Very well," you say, forcing a low, carefully modulated tone. "I'll ask again. What has happened to make you a Servant?"

"When I awoke," Kōrakuhime begins slowly, "I was so, so confused. And afraid, as well. The Akeldama where we had dwelt was destroyed as I was unaware, and without my knowledge I came to be in an unfamiliar place, with unfamiliar clothing and a changed body. I had become something else, somewhere else, all at once. Would you... care to suppose what happened then?"

"I can't imagine," you answer shortly. "What?"
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"I retreated within myself," Kōrakuhime continues. "My mind, reeling from the discontinuity of the outside world, fled into an inner realm; a dreamscape, one might call it. There I... encountered a wraith. A shade, a memory not mine, of the one who facilitated our creation. He recounted to me your confrontation and his death; he explained to me our nature, much as it was explained to you. We are... artificial spirits, who were created as part of Akeldama, then sustained and enabled to grow by our reception of sacrifice, given the memories of those who were never drawn into Akeldama. We are new souls, drawn out of the borderland between the Realm of the Imaginary Elements and the Realm of the Real Elements. We possess qualities of both worlds... but the totality of neither."

"So there were more," you say, half to yourself. She had implied it already, of course, with her comment about names, but it's still a difficult revelation to come to grips with when stated clearly.

"Indeed, there were, and are," Kōrakuhime replies. "I must admit, I found some... humor... in it, watching as you heard from Judas' voice... the incomplete truth. It was, amusing, that you should receive less information than I despite... a far greater portion of his spirit residing in you, than in myself." She pauses for a moment, taking a thin slice of meat from her dish, with the silver chopsticks curving it to carry a pool of its 'sauce', and eating it with faintly visible delight. A tiny pink tongue darts out to lap the blood from her lips, wiping them clean without diminishing their color.

"I take it, then, that you know the entire story," you say. "How many new heroes was Judas trying to create? How many Servants were released into the world by Akeldama?"

"Fufufu~." Kōrakuhime repeats her quiet, musical laugh, seeing a humor in your words that escapes you. "You are so eager," she says. "You have a... gluttony of knowledge, Alberich. Four spirits were... born in Akeldama, but only three of us... survived the trial. Your friend Matsuda was the third. I know nothing of his fate."

>[ ] "And why was Judas trying to create four heroes? What purpose did he have?" (Duty)

>[ ] "Fine, I understand how you came to be, but why are you now traveling through Tokyo and slaughtering its inhabitants?" (Duty/Compassion)

>[ ] "How much do you know about the differences between us? What portion of the sacrifice did you receive, Kōrakuhime?" (Pride)

>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
Yesss.
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
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>>3635946
Be honest. Do you really want everything to go the way you expect it to? Discovering the unexpected is a part of every great story.
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>>3636038
>[ ] "Fine, I understand how you came to be, but why are you now traveling through Tokyo and slaughtering its inhabitants?" (Duty/Compassion)
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>>3636038

Shit these are some valid questions.

>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
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>>3636038
>>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
Compassion anons, UNITE!
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Wait, what does that mean for Truvi and Kikuko?
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
>[ ] "So if you are here, and Masuda is also a servant, there are the others that survived the Akeldama. Where are Circe and Adelheid? "
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>>3636038
>Four spirits were... born in Akeldama, but only three of us... survived the trial.
FUCK YOU KEISEKI.
FUCK YOU.
THAT'S WHAT YOU FUCKING GET.

> "I must admit, I found some... humor... in it, watching as you heard from Judas' voice
Also, seems she can scry.
Excellent.
Casters are just so useful.
She needs to stop being so fucking smug though.
I'd also appreciate if she could stop eating her "food" like that.
>>3636069
Well, no. But poor Alberich is just getting fucking slapped over and over again by these life altering curve balls.

>>3636099
They probably woke up in bed.
Possibly with a Servant standing in their room.
fuck me, I can't believe I deleted a post to edit it and then the edit didn't go through
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>>3636038
>dish, with the silver chopsticks curving it
Fuck my awful typing skills. This should read
>dish with the silver chopsticks, curving it

>>3636105
>stop eating her "food" like that
How do you mean, anon?
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>>3636113
>How do you mean, anon?
You know exactly what I mean, QM.
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>>3636113
>How do you mean, anon?
Licking her lips like she's facing a purple-haired shota hero?
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
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>>3636105
>She needs to stop being so fucking smug though.
Yeah, it's like she wants to be slapped around. It's not like it's a secret that Alberich/Yumigawa is proud.
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
Friends would do al some good, besides where all vastly superior entities that will overthrow gaia and rule the world in a new age of the gods here right?
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>>3636161
>Yeah, it's like she wants to be slapped around.
Clearly it's not like that, otherwise our outburst would have garnered something other than anger.
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>>3636125
>purple-haired shota hero
This feels like a specific reference, but nothing's coming to mind...
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>>3636165
>overthrow gaia
Alaya
We're overthrowing Humanity, not the Planet.
>>3636168
She should probably stop being so smug, then.
Even Circe wasn't this smug, and she was an Ex-Goddess.
People should know by now that Alberich hates people thinking they've got one over on him.
At least the sibling comment is hopefully one of the last things she'd expect from us.
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>>3636192
How pure you are, QM.
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>>3636192
>he doesn't know
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>>3636038
>[ ] "And why was Judas trying to create four heroes? What purpose did he have?" (Duty)
Stay focused, sibling shit can come later
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>>3636230
We can ask Judas that.
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Seems like posting always dies down around this time of day. Guess you folks are mostly UK.
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>>3636336
Well, I am, at least.
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>>3636336

I'm in the Midwest, just waiting patiently for the next post to come is all
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>>3636336
Well, we don't really have much to discuss for this vote.
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>>3636336
Warmly waiting on next post. My shitposting energy is largely spent rn, need more fuel.
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>>3636350
>>3636351
It's always the things I least expect. Last update, I didn't think there'd be much debate. Now I figured there'd be a lot of disagreement about where to go with the conversation, but you all went for the sibling line. Funny.
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>>3636351

Well best question to ask is what sort of Magecraft is Caster able to perform aside from just simple scrying? Need to know the sort of strengths and weaknesses that our sibling has in order to make an effective team
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>>3636362
Most of these questions could be answered by Judas.
>tfw too mentally stoic to immediately retreat into own thoughts like a pussy.
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>>3636380
I want to get things agreed before we ask her that.
I also just want to try and throw her off guard. Guess we'll have to see if it works or not.
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>>3636395
>inb4 she retaliates
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>>3636238
These seem like something that Alberich would care about enough to find out immediately
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>>3636395
Also, she might be somewhat concerned about what we've been saying around the Emiyas.
We do appear to have become a moralfag and the majority of our conversations revealing our true thoughts were mental.
So scrying wouldn't pick up on that.
Would explain why she's so seemingly guarded at least.

Though she probably does deserve to be hit with a Caladbolg for embracing being a monster.
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>>3636362
For me, I just want to throw her off guard. Most of these questions are almost like Alberich is crawling to her, appealing to her wisdom. This is the only one where we posit something.
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>>3636407
What was she suppossed to do?
Curl up and die?
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>>3636404
It's second hand knowledge from somebody who's motives we aren't entirely sure on.
She seems to be rejecting Ogawara pretty hard and is also eating the people she murdered and cooked literally right in front of us.
Having the gall to get angry that her inciteful comments had the desired effect and some of it was spilled.
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>>3636410
ABERIICHU-KUN TASUKETEEEEE
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>>3636416
>Aruberihhi-kun
There you go.
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>>3636418
Shut up, I'll learn eventually.
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>>3636410
Maybe.
Maybe Emiya has the right idea...
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>>3636430
Moralfag leave now
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>>3636430
Oh well, no crying over eaten breads.
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God damn it!
Who cares if our sister is eating people? I bet they were delicious and I'm sure we can find her a new food source if needed!
The REAL question is where the fuck are our battle wives!?
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>>3636413
>and cooked
You may want to go back and reread that description.
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>>3636449
No.
It's not even for the morality.
It's for the audacity of it all.
She would see her rightful king, the reason she still lives at all, and find his situation humorous, to laugh that she knows "more" about this situation?
Even though she only received such knowledge by being quite unready to accept it?
Her mental state lies in ruins and the Ogawara that we knew from Akeldama has been replaced by this arrogant fool, enslaved by their base instincts and fast becoming a monster.
To prey upon the people we intend to rule.
Really, she's quite lucky we're giving her a chance at all.

Bitch didn't have a conversation with the Gods though, I'll bet.
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>>3636474
I meant cooked as in "prepared".
My point still stands.
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>>3636474
I don't think raw urban Nip is that healthy to eat. I heard that rural meat is safe to eat raw though, assuming the practices behind the raising and butchering aren't absolutely pleb-tier.
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>>3636038
>[ ] "Fine, I understand how you came to be, but why are you now traveling through Tokyo and slaughtering its inhabitants?" (Duty/Compassion)
She's got other options for energy gathering. She just likes eating people.
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>>3636485
You act like we wouldn't be suckung up the orphan juicie first chance we get if we were in her position
In the end being like us and our sister are just of an altogether higherstanding compared to humanity, if we must use them as cattle and mana batteries to sustain ourselvs then so be it
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>>3636501
>her situation.
She's Caster.
Going around eating people is both inefficient and also very noticeable.
She's doing this because she enjoys it.
A monster is merely something for a hero to slay.
Lets hope she's not too far gone, otherwise we shouldn't hesitate to put her down, for the sake of the Ogawara we once knew.
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>>3636485
Wow. That is some serious Pride. What would you have wanted her to do, take a knee as soon as you showed up?
Even in Akeldama, Ogawara was the most rebellious of your team; he was just super nervous most of the time.
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>>3636485
>To prey upon the people we intend to rule.
That's fucking rich coming from someone who thought he could get more power if he ate the entirety of Tokyo.
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>>3636525
If we don't embrace the pride in Alberich's mindstate, how can we ever hope to reach Gil's level?
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>>3636539
>Wanting to be a shitty jobber
Extreme amounts of pride is not great.
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>>3636539
By having your arm chopped off by Shirou and then letting his wife eat you, obviously.
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>>3636544
Extreme amounts of pride is entirely perfect for Alberich, who should assume his rightful position as king of heroic spirits. If we can't even match gil, how can we even surpass the gods themselves?
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>>3636549
>letting his wife eat you
She can eat our ass out and have Shirou watch.
The only ones eatting people around here is Alberich.
And I guess Kōrakuhime too.
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Grandstanding aside, >>3636512 is a valid concern. The subject of her consuming flesh and blood WILL have to come up in order to gauge how much of Ogawara's "humanity" is left. If she is more oni than man, driven only by her basest of instincts, then that might be a problem.
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>>3636554
Even gil isn't this much of a baby
Do you think he'd throw a fit every time enkidu criticised him?
There's a difference between pride and childish pettiness
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>>3636566
Wait, sustenance is a base instinct, so that might be a poor choice of words. If she is doing it more out of pleasure than necessity, then it might be a problem.
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>>3636525
>take a knee as soon as you showed up
This would've been ideal, yes.
>>3636528
It's a ruler's decision what he does with his people. As they have accepted him as such.
He might send them off to war, to die in droves, and be celebrated upon his victory.
If he has decided their deaths would be a benefit to him, and by extension, his kingdom, then it is justified.
A monster though, a monster is reviled by all, even if takes only a few lives.
It takes what it wants and kills who it wants, merely for it's own satisfaction.
Eventually some brave Hero will rise up to dispose of the beast, as has happened thousands of times in the past.
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>>3636579
Of course, but it's always entire families that go missing. Four pairs of child sized shoes in this house.
She could easily target loners.
She's very likely seeking out children to devour like some twisted monster.
There are many other ways a Caster can sustain themselves. Giving into their base monstrous instincts? Not a great one.
Medusa would be disgusted.

Alternatively Ogawara is taking "Riajuu go explode" way too seriously.
And literally.
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>>3636594
>Alternatively Ogawara is taking "Riajuu go explode" way too seriously. And literally.

>tfw in our attempt to socialize Ogawara we ended up making him the Supreme Gentlewoman
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>>3636485
>Her mental state lies in ruins and the Ogawara that we knew from Akeldama has been replaced by this arrogant fool, enslaved by their base instincts and fast becoming a monster.
If anything, Alberich is Kōrakuhime's role model in this regard. Who was the first person in the Akeldama crew to reject his humanity in favor of greater power?

>>3636566
>gauge how much of Ogawara's "humanity" is left
Every revelation Alberich had about not being human and instead a hero in the making is one that Kōrakuhime had as well. If anything, she feels even more distant from humanity than Alberich does.
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>>3636594
Who would miss a orphan
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>>3636610
>orphan
That's the problem, anon. They're not orphans.
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>>3636610
Kiritsugu.
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>>3636612
Sorry anon but moralfags aren't people
Try again
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>>3636611
>They're not orphans.
They are if you kill the parents first!
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>>3636620
Kek
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>>3636620
Well that's a very easy fix isn't it?
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>>3636611
Well shit guess i read too fast
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>>3636620
Eyyy, but we seriously need to check if Ogawara's completely gone off the deep end.
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>>3636609
>Reject his humanity
But that's the beauty of it, his body was no longer human, but even so, he started feeling more emotions than ever before, he may know now that he was never a human, but he certainly hasn't become a monster, no less than he was in Akeldama at least.
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>>3636628
I'd hate to have to kill an old friend so soon after a reunion.
But as we said to Berserker, they might have the memories, but they aren't the same person.
She just better hope she's not too far off the rails.
Hopefully, Alberich can calm her "eating children" tendencies.
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>>3636609
>If anything, she feels even more distant from humanity than Alberich does.
Think there's a way to bring her back, even just a little?
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Alberich may be a villainous killer but I'd like to think that he won't tolerate murdering and eating children. Can we really stomach working with Ogawara at this point?
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>>3636689
There's not much to be done for past actions. I don't think Alberich values a given human life all too much, but there is a certain personal element to the "flaying and eating families" thing that kinda gets me. We'll have to work past it.
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>>3636689
It depends on the reason, which is why I mentioned pleasure VS necessity.
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>>3636694
So you're saying that we have to play the shrink. Again.
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>>3636694
There's a huge gulf in morality between enjoying killing someone in combat like Alberich and repeatedly killing and eating children by choice. Why should Alberich have to swallow his pride and lower himself to that level?
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>>3636631
>but he certainly hasn't become a monster, no less than he was in Akeldama at least.
As I recall, Akeldama Alberich never casually considered the benefits of eating 36 million people. I think that's a clear step in the "monster" direction.

>>3636671
Oh, for sure, but first Alberich has to see Kōrakuhime as a wake-up call about the path he's treading rather than as a person traveling the same path in an inferior manner.
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You know, now that I think about it, Compassion might be a right first step to helping her.
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>>3636758
What, like you've never casually considered the benefits of eating 36 million people.
The drive to act on thoughts of that kind is what makes people into monsters.
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>>3636784
Alberich has an incentive to eat every other Servant in the war, and has already consumed one. I'm also pretty sure players have at least suggested eating every individual Servant we've met immediately upon making contact, as well as discussed the benefits of chowing down on the still-living Emiya family. You'd be hard-pressed to argue that Alberich isn't in very serious and very immediate danger of becoming a monster.
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>>3636801
Well, Servants aren't really people. 100%. Absolutely. As for the Emiyas, there's just the simple fact that they have so much energy that morality *almost* goes entirely out the window. Brutally murdering the average salaryman or schoolgirl and eating them simply doesn't cross that efficiency versus holy-shit-I'm-eating-a-person barrier.
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>>3636801
Absorbing the magical energy of a fallen foe is definitely less monstrous than consuming the actual flesh of a human.
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>>3636801
>You'd be hard-pressed to argue that Alberich isn't in very serious and very immediate danger of becoming a monster.
Here's the worst part of it: If we do cross that threshold into becoming a monster, we are liable to gain the ire of everybody. We might even lose the favor of the gods.
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>>3636827
>We might even lose the favor of the gods.
Not that I'm in favor of becoming a world-eating monster, but I don't know about this one compadre
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>>3636801
The Servants are Alberich's enemies because their goals oppose his; if the Emiyas choose to oppose his goal, knowingly or not, they become his enemies.
He consumes a byproduct of the killing of his enemies.
Kourakuhime chooses to hunt down, painfully slaughter and physically consume innocents in a highly visible manner that draws a lot of attention.

Which of the two is more monstrous?
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>>3636831
Believe it or not, a lot of Gods want to see humanity prosper(eg. the Mayans, regardless how).
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>>3636809
>efficiency versus holy-shit-I'm-eating-a-person barrier
The very fact that there's a trade-off that can be overcome is pretty monstrous.
>"Don't worry about it, I only eat nutritious people! I ignore normal people because they aren't juicy enough for my tastes, so I'm a good person."

>>3636812
True, but do you remember why the Shadow starts going wild in the latter part of HF? We might not want to eat people, but if we keep eating and Alberich reaches a point where he can't control the urge anymore, we'll be a genuine monster and Ruler Clint might be the world's only hope.

>>3636831
>I don't know about this one compadre
The gods were so fond of the Gorgon that they willingly armed Perseus with everything he needed to kill her.

>>3636835
>Which of the two is more monstrous?
At what point did I suggest that Kōrakuhime wasn't monstrous or at least was less so than Alberich? Kōrakuhime's relative monstrosity to Alberich doesn't absolve Alberich of any monstrosity he has, nor does it prevent Alberich from becoming monstrous in the future.
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)
We should start to appreciate fate for it has strange ability to laugh in face of our misfortune.
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>>3636860
You're making a false equivalency by calling what we do "eating". We don't have any uncontrollable urge to do so, we just do it because it's necessary to grow stronger if we want to survive the hardships to come.
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>>3636860
>The very fact that there's a trade-off that can be overcome is pretty monstrous.
Fair enough, I know that embracing the heroic spirit mentality does bring that monstrousness.
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>>3636860
>The gods were so fond of the Gorgon that they willingly armed Perseus with everything he needed to kill her.

I'd imagine that they would force themselves through our sword to get us killed.
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>>3636869
>You're making a false equivalency by calling what we do "eating".
I don't think I am at all. Kirei draws the very same analogy when describing the activity of the Shadow in HF.
>We don't have any uncontrollable urge to do so
We don't have an uncontrollable urge *yet*. The Shadow didn't either and was content with leaving people comatose until it ate Gil.
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>>3636879
We're not the shadow though
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>>3636882
.......
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>>3636860
>control the urge
>>3636879
>We don't have an uncontrollable urge *yet*

Do we actually have any urges at all? So far it just seemed like something we did to get stronger.
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>>3636860
>The gods were so fond of the Gorgon that they willingly armed Perseus with everything he needed to kill her.
Do recall that this was during the Age of Gods. They've had a bit of a falling out with mankind since, I hear. Something to do with a certain King of Heroes?
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You know about my idea of tricking Shirou that the grail needed to be taken into IN space to be destroyed due to a lot of magical power inside of it?

If there are now three extra servants running around with the possibility of gaining more in this war, that idea may not be too far off.

poor priest.

>"They said "Oh don't worry its only a normal war Antaglio""
>"They said it would only have seven servants."
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>>3636882
>Our strength comes from the souls of humans and Servants that have been infused into us
>Our greatest weapon is gateway of consuming darkness leading to a source of effectively infinite power
>We want to take in the power of Servants for the sake of incarnating into the world and realizing our wish
While our wish may differ from the Angry Manchild, our functionality is frightfully similar.
>win war
>get to Grail, ready to claim wish
>Sakura stands before us
>"WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I"

>>3636891
None yet, but the whole "man, I'd be a hell of a lot more powerful right now if I just munched on everyone in the city" strikes me as a clear precursor.

>>3636893
Thank you, Eiyuu Ou, for buying us some favor if we decide to eat everything. Until the gods want to come back and have magical energy without dying. Then things might go south again.

>>3636900
What are the odds Antaglio dies on the spot of a heart attack when he learns about all the shit the participants have gotten up to?
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I think we are forgetting one angle here.
We, the Last Hero Alberich, while trying to achive freedom from being a puppet to Heromaing Plan of Judas willingly chose and embraced our new idenity out of our Pride in who we are and that we have achieved. It was pretty much our major thing in Akeldama and was decided almost from the start.
Our Bewitching Divinity of Calamitous Death here never really had that soul searching and defining quest and was pretty much hardly slapped in the face with revelation as her old worldview completely collapsed in one go. Pretty solid definition of victim of circumstances. Albeit a monstrous one.
And we along side her and Matsuda pretty much the only one who can understand each other in thar regard.
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>>3636919
>the whole "man, I'd be a hell of a lot more powerful right now if I just munched on everyone in the city" strikes me as a clear precursor
I'll reiterate that this is as much of a precursor as an overworked wagie's random thoughts of cracking open his boss's head are a precursor to a murder that'll most likely never happen.
You should be worried when Alberich tries to think happy thoughts.

If you're worried now, the solution is to raise Compassion so Alberich doesn't start viewing everyone except his loved ones as food.
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Sorry to barge in but I was wondering where I could find a good writer for Fate. I'm from a group that tried to have a 30 participant war of fakers based off of a Fate CYOA.

>>67137750

I don't know if this'll get far off the ground but it's been slowly and steadily moving forward.
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Oh, he's referring to a /tg/ thread.
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>>3636945
Firstly, that's not how you link to a post in another board. >>>/tg/67137750 If this is wrong...
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>>3636943
It appears I was wrong when I said that we haven't felt any urges yet.
>>3631663
>How many souls there are here, you think, and something predatory stirs within you.
I'd say this is a warning sign if there ever was one.
>If you're worried now, the solution is to raise Compassion so Alberich doesn't start viewing everyone except his loved ones as food.
Yes, I've been a Compassionfag for most of the quest at this point. I'm saying all this in an attempt to sound the alarm and head this off before it becomes a problem.
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>>3636964
>>How many souls there are here, you think, and something predatory stirs within you.
Yeah, that's not good...

>>3636893
There's always Alaya to worry about as well. Lose our "humanity" and we become a threat to it. We might not be bad enough to call in a Guardian yet but if we continue down this path...
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>>3636945
A 30-man Faye CYOA sounds like an inevitable clusterfuck, btw.
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>>3636038
>[ ] "So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Does this make us a kind of siblings?" (Compassion)

Sister GET! hopefully We've got to find our brother Matsuda, and ha, HAHA, FUCK YOU KEISIKEI THAT'S WHAT YOU GET!

I wouldn't have minded, actually. It was fun to hate him In Akeldama so It would have been fun to kill him again here.
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>>3637014
More than 11 named Servants is a clusterfuck, honestly. You can have 7 regulars and up to 4 irregulars, but having any more forces you to give specific ones disproportionate attention and depth, and prevents the readers from connecting deeply with anyone.
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>>3637118
Don't worry, dead servants don't count towards that total!
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>>3637118
s-sorry
>>3637125
Yeah, the Akeldama Servants don't count in the sequel.

I'm talking about an Apocrypha/Strange Fake situation.
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"So we were born in the same place, created by the same man... Do you think this makes us a kind of siblings?" The words fall out of your mouth naturally, almost unconsciously. Family is a concept you had thought of as impossible for you, since discovering the truth about your identity. Kōrakuhime's identity, however, changes that. This is a living Servant like yourself, someone with the same unique constitution and means of creation, who was brought into being by the same man. She's the closest thing to a sister you could possibly have.

"Siblings?" Kōrakuhime's eyes widen in surprise, the hand that carries her chopsticks freezing halfway back to her plate. A faint blush seems to color her cheeks, though it may only be a trick your eyes are playing in the darkness. The loss of composure only lasts a moment, however. With a tiny "ahem," the girl replaces her chopsticks on their holder and looks away from you for a moment, taking a breath.

"Siblings, indeed," she echoes softly, her eyes returning to yours with renewed calm. "I believe you have... a point, although one would be hard-pressed to find a... brother and sister as dissimilar in appearance as we two. Still..." Kōrakuhime gives you a smile before continuing, "I do like the idea. Shall I call you Ani-ue, then? Or perhaps there's another term you find more... appealing? You did seem to derive some... pleasure from little miss Einzbern's attention..."

Now it's your turn to flush and cough in surprise. Just how much of your life has Kōrakuhime been watching by magic? No, better not to dwell on that subject. "Ani-ue is fine," you say, "or Alberich, or Saber. Call me what you like."

"You'd keep your... preferences from me? That's no fun." Kōrakuhime pouts prettily, pursing her lips in a moue of dissatisfaction. "What shall we discuss, then? I'm... sure you haven't come to me for... cooking advice."

"I am here to discuss your diet, at any rate," you answer. "The way you've been killing these families is drawing attention. Two Masters are hunting you already, and I came here for the same purpose: to kill a rogue Servant that was putting the secrecy of the Holy Grail War at risk. The only reason we are conversing right now instead of doing battle is your identity. Why are you doing it, Kōrakuhime?"

"I was not... summoned to a Master, as you were," the girl answers, all mirth falling from her voice. "With no magus to provide me with magical energy, I was impelled to find it for myself, or to die. The most effective way for a Servant to take in magical energy is to consume the flesh and blood of humans, and with it the energy of their lives. I eat... to live." As she speaks, you suddenly notice Kōrakuhime's teeth. All of them are small, sharply pointed fangs, like those of a cat or fox. Indeed, they are suited to one who must hunt to survive.
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"You needed mystic energy," you repeat, "and Servants are best fed by hunting. Very well, it is an understandable motive. Why, then, attack entire families? Why not feed on the the street's lonely stragglers, on the homeless, on the rebellious youth who wander downtown without speaking to their families? If you consumed the people who go missing without a trace already, they would draw no attention to you."

"And what then?" This is a demand, a sudden burst of anger. Kōrakuhime raises her tone to an ordinary speaking volume, but compared with her usual voice it's a furious shout. Now she is flushed, the color in her cheeks visible in any darkness, and speaking with none of her usual drawn out care. "I would remain starving, barely surviving from night to night; a withering Servant, a wraith doomed to haunt the unseen corners and prey on the weak until I fade away by some careless mistake! Is that what you'd have of me?" Then, like a sudden shower, the rage vanishes all at once. The tension animating Kōrakuhime's body dissipates, and she relaxes back into her chair.

"I do not kill families," she says quietly, "out of some... personal preference. I do not... search for the flesh of children, like a careful gourmand who prefers... veal to beef. I must move constantly, and have only... so much time per night. So I... select those houses with the most inhabitants, that I might derive more energy... rather than less."

"So feeding on those who wouldn't be missed isn't enough," you say, unmoved by the outburst. Even with sharp teeth and horns, Kōrakuhime hardly cuts an intimidating figure. "Then why not draw energy from the city's leylines? In the Akeldama, Caster once told me that the most potent way she could gain energy was by siphoning it from the land's leylines. Being summoned as a Caster, could you not do the same?"

"The land is not... a font of power without limit... as you seem to imagine," Kōrakuhime says. "Power flows through it, and that... is the energy of life itself. The vegetation, the animal life, and even the humans of the area, all derive their wellness from the... circulation... of Mana within the leylines. There is a... portion in places, of... excess energy that can be used by magi. I am sure that this... is what she referred to. Here, however, it is being consumed entirely... by the Holy Grail. To sustain myself by Mana would... poison by my existence... all the inhabitants of this city. Would that be a kinder thing than to... dine on such a... tiny fragment of their number?"

"Not the kinder thing," you concede glumly, "but perhaps the more discreet method."
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>[ ] No matter how justified she may be, the benefits of dispatching Kōrakuhime outweigh the benefits of leaving her alive. Strike without warning. (Self-Preservation)

>[ ] "I will overlook your actions tonight," you say, "out of respect for our friendship in the Akeldama and for your unfortunate circumstances. When we meet again, however, know that I must kill you." (Duty)

>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)
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>>3637211
>"No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
We have to save her, dammit!
There's got to be a way!
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>>3637211
>>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
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>>3637211
>>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
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>>3637211
>>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
We know of enough people who could probably sustain her.
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>>3637211
We might wanna at least bring this up with Ayaka before we make any solid choices, but I'm learning towards.
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
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>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
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>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)

So aside from Oni-type skills, what else could Kourakuhime (what a mouthful, anyone have shorthand suggestions for this) have? Maybe some sort of Charm or low-ranked True Name Discernment
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>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
We might need to abandon the emiyas pretty soon, they were shitty allies anyways
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>>3637328
Looks of Loveliness?
>Plus modifiers are applied to checks when negotiating with both men and women. Also, effects that target a specific gender are disregarded.
Chevalier d'Eon has it at Rank C.
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>>3637207
>You did seem to derive some... pleasure from little miss Einzbern's attention..
Well isn't that convenient, she was looking after us almost this whole time, but has no idea where Matsuda is.
Or is keeping that info from us for whatever reason.
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>>3637328
>what a mouthful
Well it's better than the 7 letter chuu2 she came up with.
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>>3637211
>>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
Sister line worked perfectly.
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>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)

Sister get! Sister get! Sister get!

And besides, even If she does have to end up consuming human life so what. What *real* value Is lost anyway.
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>>3637357
I suppose we should start thinking of ways to sustain servants.
The only master with enough juice for it would be Lily, but that brings it's own heap of problems.
It's unlikely we could summon one but killing a Dragon and having her eat it's heart should give her a dragon core, allowing her to produce enough mana.
For bonus points, we could bathe in it's blood for Siegfried style invulnerablity and make sure there are no leaves in sight.
This is super wishful thinking though.
But also a ridiculous power-up that would allow Alberich to somewhat face Achilles.
And would likely change the "feel" of Koraku's mana so Shirou doesn't realise.
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>>3637383
Also, a better suggestion than eating families would be going for Yakuza meet-ups, or drug-deals
Far easier to explain away as the work of criminals.
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>>3637383
I like the idea, but there are some big problems here:

• Alberich still doesn't know how to summon beings from the Reverse Side, or how draining it would be to sustain a Phantasmal Beast's existence on the Front Side.
• Summoning a dragon is certain to get attention not only from everyone involved with the War but also everyone in the moonlit world.
• Fafnir is dead, and we don't know if it's possible with any other dragon.
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>>3637342
>Well isn't that convenient, she was looking after us almost this whole time, but has no idea where Matsuda is.
Well, if she talked with Judas then she would know our master's name. That makes finding us a lot easier than Matsuda who could have appeared anywhere.
It's also sweet in a way. Despite barely having enough mana to survive, Hime used her limited resources so she could see Alberich.
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>>3637396
>summoning a dragon is sure to get attention
I mean, you would think that. But not really. Nrvnsqr once ate an entire hotel with hundreds of different beasts, some magical.
Hell, didn't Galliasta summon Medea out of a hope she'd be able to summon a Dragon?
>summoning is untested
What better method to start with than to try to summon something truly ridiculous?
>Fafnir is dead
Possibly a problem, but honestly I don't think it was ever mentioned if there was something that differentiated his blood or heart from any dragon.

We've got a Sword that can easily cut through a Dragon's otherwise impenetrable hide, and the act of slaying a Dragon with it will turn it into a Dragon Slaying Holy Sword, giving it extra damage to things with Dragon attributes and possibly ranking it up to A+ or A++
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>>3637211
>[ ] "I will overlook your actions tonight," you say, "out of respect for our friendship in the Akeldama and for your unfortunate circumstances. When we meet again, however, know that I must kill you." (Duty)
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>>3637383
Do we really want to give a master another servant or create a new competitor for the grail? And if a servant can eat a dragon heart to sustain itself then why would we do it for her before ourselves?
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>>3637404
>Nrvnsqr once ate an entire hotel with hundreds of different beasts, some magical.
I don't think Nrvnqsr's beasts were as strong as a dragon individually or even as a swarm. It's only when they combine with him that the whole thing becomes seriously bullshit tough.
>Hell, didn't Galliasta summon Medea out of a hope she'd be able to summon a Dragon?
Nasu said Argon Coin's dragon wasn't very strong.
>something that differentiated his blood or heart from any dragon
Like having once been a magical dwarf? Who knows what that might cause.

Still, I'm averse to summoning a dragon of any strength anywhere near Tokyo because of the terrible risk involved. We can always do it away from the city, hypnotize anyone nearby and finish the job quickly. Although I'm not sure what the gods might have to say about it.
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>>3637412
Merely an idea.
Also, don't get it twisted, only living servants like us, Matsuda and Korakuhime (maybe Arturia too) could do something that empowers us like that.

We could also always share the heart, not sure what effect that has.
The point is that we're adequately supplied by Ayaka now and Kouraku is forced to eat people. Having a(nother) Caster loyal to us alone would be excellent.
Also, a Dragon Oni just sounds cool.
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>>3637416
Also before we summon a dragon we should really summon something weaker. Just so we can find any problems before we summon something really dangerous or find out halfway that we don't have enough mana to finish the summoning.
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>>3637422
This is why we need to start with a unicorn.
Then summon a demonic boar.
Then a dragon.
Then pieces of Gugalanna after we get Vitrification EX.
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>>3637416
Nrvnsqr literally had a low ranked Dragon within his reality marble.
As for Fafnir being special...
There's also Vortigern, who drank the blood of a Dragon to get bullshit powers to fight Arturia.
Dragons are some serious bullshit here.

People in Fate are generally fucking blind. GIGANTIC HORROR not being noticed is kind of evidence of that.
Let the church deal with it. Not like it's entirely unexpected for a class to summon proper bullshit things.
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>>3637427
>Nrvnsqr literally had a low ranked Dragon within his reality marble.
...Yeah, except for that one.
And the unicorn.
Yeah.

At the very least, I don't want the Emiyas to know we can pull a dragon from our ass and throw it at them.
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>>3637437
Lets summon a Dragon directly on top of the church.
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>>3637440
Better idea, let's summon a Demon God directly on top of the church.
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>>3637443
Let's just summon Tiamat directly on top of the church.
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>>3637444
You know what? Why don't we summon Judas and force Antaglio to eat his homemade mapo tofu?
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>>3637448
Great idea!
Also imagine the Saber rematch with an Armour of Fafnir type defence
>she gets through our guard and cuts us with enough force to cleave us in two
>almost 0 damage.
Only problem is that Armour of Fafnir kinda eats Siegfried's magic resistance and folds it into the NP.
Also, by ensuring we don't get an inconvenient leaf on our back, we won't have that weakness either.
>"he introduced himself as Alberich and is immune to attack, but why would he have Siegfrieds defence...? Saber! There should be a weak point on his back!"
>"nope."
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>>3637455
>almost 0 damage
No, that's exactly 0 damage. We could just stand there and let her shove her Invisible Air in our face and it wouldn't ruffle a hair because its rank is C.
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>>3637459
She's got A rank strength though.
Though attempting anything specific to IA won't work at all.
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>>3637464
A-Rank Strength doesn't matter because according to Armor of Fafnir she's attacking us with IA on Excalibur rather than punching us with her bare hands or swinging Excalibur at us. It's all conceptual(TM,R,C)

Notice how in this image Excalibur is visible.
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>>3637478
Oh, neat.
Bonus points if we have Kourakuhime disguise herself as our Master if we get her a Dragon Core for the rematch.
>Harris tries to attack her while we're slapping Saber around in an attempt to attain victory the same way as the first time
>exceptionally large mistakes were made
>goodbye limbs
Of course, keeping him alive in such a state might be beneficial. It would give us the opportunity to take control of Saber.
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If there's a way for us to incarnate outside of winning the holy grail war then why are we still participating? Just for the powerups?
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>>3637524
So we can bring about a new age to the world and rule as king
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>>3637524
>If there's a way for us to incarnate outside of winning the holy grail war then why are we still participating?
Because we don't have one?
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>>3637524
It's not true incarnation, it's just a way to provide a servant with enough mana to sustain their existence. If they spend too much they will still fade away.
True Incarnation would allow the incarnated servant not to worry about such a thing.
Additionally, a Servant isn't really alive and their body is only made of flesh and blood visually. Incarnation changes that.
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>>3637524
It's not incarnation, just increasing our Magical Energy rank. We'll still need a Master to continue existing.
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>>3637536
Also, I feel like this goes without saying, but Dragonslaying isn't exactly what you'd call easy and risk free.
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>>3637539
Here's the skill description
>Dragon Kind Modification EX (stop giving EX to unique skills you hacks.)
>A dragonkind mana reactor core has formed, allowing Sigurd to mobilize almost completely independently despite being a Servant
Note the *almost*, it's not perfect but it should do the trick for Hime until incarnation.
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>>3637524
As others have said this might be a way not to die after the grail war, but it has a lot of risks and might not be possible for us.
We don't even know how much mana we would need to summon a dragon. If we haven't enough then that's it for that plan and even if that works we would have to defeat the dragon after using up a lot of mana just to summon it.
We also are a servant in this war and if we want to participate or not the other servants want the grail.
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>>3637541
Honestly, Arturia should have this skill too since she has a reactor as well. lazy hacks
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>>3637524
Finally, you say this as if the powerups aren't an inherently worthwhile reason, leaving aside our wish to get Circe and Adelheid back.
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>>3637545
> If we haven't enough then that's it for that plan
Not exactly.
Remember, we could always siphon the mana for the summoning from the Leylines.
Fuck the mundanes.
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>>3637550
>Fuck the mundanes.
We have a master with command seals who would disagree.
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>>3637550
>siphon the mana
>everyone in tokyo becomes an artificial hero because our existence poisoned them
>the people of tokyo create a new breed of heroes who lead humanity to a new age of gods
Did we just win the Nasuverse?
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>>3637546
It's honestly bizzare that the fact she has a Dragon Core isn't a part of her listed skills.
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>>3637558
>plunge HGS into central leyline of Tokyo and transform it into a city of the gods
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>>3637554
Bringing back the age of gods would stop the decline anyway and siphoning mana from leylines isn't the reason for notes anyway.
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>>3637566
Yeah, I remembered why and deleted it almost immediately after.
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Can't wait for Shirou to try and confront us over this.
>"Why are you protecting the girl who's been killing all those people?!"
>"She's my sister, and she's done what she had to do to survive."
>long awkward silence occurs where Emiya can't think of anything to say without sounding like a massive hypocrite. Eventually Alberich breaks the silence
>"I feel like I'm missing some context here."
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>>3637578
We may end up having to explain who we exactly saved from Akeldama, so let's not let that scenario happen.
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>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
May as well try first before killing her. Duty a worst btw.
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>>3637599
Pridechads and Compassionfags unite against Dutycucks
>>3637597
>Alberich saved
>a Demon
>actually Hitler
>a Yandere Ex-Goddess
>whatever the fuck Matsuda became
>a girl he brainwashed
>and Truvi
"Oops."
Our record isn't looking great.
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>>3637606
>Implying that record isn't flawless
We even managed to devise Perseus's death without losing Truvi!
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>>3637611
That wasn't exactly planned.
Also oh man, if Medusa knew the full story about us and our siblings now.
Considering her entire backstory is basically about her siblings and becoming a monster.
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>>3637606
Who is the demon? I know who everyone else is.
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>>3637622
>>That wasn't exactly planned.
>implying Alberich's plans are not beyond your limited mortal understanding or even his own understanding
>>3637623
Kourakuhime.
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>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)

So remember how Judas mentioned "some rather dangerous resonance" last thread? Could he mean our connection with Kōrakuhime and Matsuda since they are also apparently share a piece of him? It would certainly explain our recent rant about consuming Tokyo for power up and a lot of new found Pride of our sister.
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>>3637623
Ogawara/Kourakuhime is an oni now, AKA a Demon.

Oh and this is another parallel with Arturia, what with our sister being a powerful Caster.
Hopefully not too much of a parallel though. All things considered.
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>>3637622
We have far too many parallels with too many people now.

>Arturia
Both are artificial heroes created by magic trolls.
>Shirou
We're on our own HF route, years after the HF ending.
>Medusa
Technically Kourakuhime is the one with the parallel.
>Gilgamesh
Both have huge egos and a small group of loved ones (he has only Enkidu), and both are expected to restart the Age of Gods. Unlike him, our ego doesn't cripple us in a fight.
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>>3637640
>Hopefully not too much of a parallel though. All things considered.
You don`t want to style on Saber with our superior dad skill?
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>>3637640
Fate/Awakening Mirror, also known as How I reincarnated in the middle of a secret magic war and got my sister pregnant with half-oni children
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>>3637673
Actually, as we're a Conceptual Being, wouldn't they be like...
Conceptual Oni or something?
Good lord that sounds broken just from the name.
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>>3637650
Y'know, having superior father skills to Saber is not a difficult thing to claim.
I'd argue even Kiritsugu was a more responsible parent.
And he was a complete Jackass.
To both of his children.
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>>3637686
We can also steal and add other things to the mix. Like Dragon for example.
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>>3637699
>Conceptual Divine(Gods have got to grant it to us eventually) Dragon Oni children
It's like somebody is messing around with D&D 3.5s creature templates.
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>>3637650
>Your parental skills are so bad they end kingdoms.
>You killed more people trying to rule than I killed enemies on purpose.
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>>3637711
We can also start on eugenics project.
Some good looking wives with proper genes we need, some predetermined marriges between our future children. We can synthesize some really strong stuff this way in a few generations.
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>>3637686
>>3637699
>>3637711
>>3637732
wait till after the war, my m88s
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>>3637732
>We can also start on eugenics project.
>Some good looking wives with proper genes we need
>Implying possibilities
No betraying Circe and Adelheid until it's confirmed we can never get them back! And even then, Ayaka is the clear frontrunner with Liliesviel in a very very distant second and Kōrakuhime in an horrific but thankfully far flung third
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>>3637750
>even considering Kourakuhime before Kikuko, Rin, Sakura, Akagata, Arturia, Matsuda or Keiseki
No, fuck off. No way.
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>>3637756
But think of the Eugenics!
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>>3637756
>considering old hags
>considering best bro and a corpse
Only right one you got was Artoria and, even then, we canonically hate her.
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>>3637750
>>3637756
So this is what peasants look like
How disgusting
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>>3637766
i refuse. inbreeding leads to madness and mutation
>>3637768
That should be an indicator of how undesirable hime is for eugenics, anon.
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>>3637750
Actually, in terms of appearance it would probably be Adelheid>Liliesviel>Circe>Kourakuhime>Arturia>Ayaka
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>>3637778
>inbreeding
>not technically blood related but more spiritually siblings, therefore 0 inbreeding
I'm operating on the next level here. Begone, plebian.
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From a eugenics point of view, Liliesviel obviously has the top spot by a long margin.
Anyone else and your kids might (horror of horrors) not have white hair and red eyes!
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>>3637780
>Appearance
I gave my actual, character-based opinion. The only person Alberich has anything approaching a substantial bond to is Ayaka, with Lily taking distant second almost entirely due to looks + the fact that we might not necessarily murder her, and then Kōrakuhime because I'm a sick bastard and it's the only one after those two that seems remotely possible in any hellish world.
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>>3637756
I didn't even notice this part:
>Sakura
>even CONSIDERING adultery
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>>3637778
>inbreeding leads to madness and mutation
>Conceptual Biology: A
Probably got this one covered.
Thanks, Judas.
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>>3637798
Finally, someone with their head on straight. Honestly, Alberich 100% understands and supports the sanctity of marriage! He also doesn't want used goods, but that's besides the point
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>>3637784
>not technically blood related
>>>not blood-related
EVERY FUCKING TIME JAPAN WTF
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Oh I see with this new development we added "Get a Harem for maximum eugenics" to our list of things to do.
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>>3637815
I mean, you both have a part of Judas' soul in you. There were probably some of the other spirits that got split up.
I think it's safe to say you're related.
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>>3637828
>Harem
Never. Only pleb-tier mortals had "harems".
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>>3637829
As long as it's not physical it's okay.
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>>3637803
Her sister is better anyway.
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>>3637793
I think that was a reference to the listing of attractiveness we got for Alberich.
And for substantial bonds we have a stronger bond with Circe and Adelheid than with Ayaka.
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>>3637843
>Her sister is better anyway.
she's not even a christmas cake, anon. We might get one child out her at this point, if we even considered it.
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Please tell me this quest won't actually devolve into haremshit. It's so good without it.
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>>3637840
>Niggas out here actually trying to stray from the one true path.
Circe and Adelheid are our day one's and the only girls we need. Considering anyone else for waifu is abhorrent and you should all be ashamed.
Also haremfags can fuck off and ruin another quest with their bullshit.
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>>3637849
Just give her that immorality herb that makes you a child again.
It's probably somewhere in the imaginary number realm.
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>>3637839
>>3637855
>1
>post
>by
>this
>ID
Stop it. It must be done for eugenics.
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>>3637853
>>3637855
I don't plan on it.
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>>3637853
>He actually believes we will not only get our waifus back and get a hold on a new ones
Good one, Anon.
But it is just our sweet dreams made of Akeldama.
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>>3637863
I agree that we should focus on getting Adelheid and Circe back. They're the ones who would decide what happens with our dick in the end.
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Better question anons, if Adelhied and Circe were aged to Chirstmas Cakes would you reject them for becoming "hags"? If so, what makes kids better?
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>>3637882
I don't like that attitude, but the sentiment is 100% correct.
Although I don't think either of them are fond of sharing unless they are working together to bully girls with more plentiful assets.
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>>3637882
Yeah.
Man, Alberich did really well in Akeldama, huh? If it all goes to plan he has 4 extraordinarily powerful allies, 2 of which are Casters.
Hell, he could even have 5 with Saber Alter.
It's very much a possibility for him to declare war on the world with that sort of force backing him up, as well as any Gods that may themselves descend and possess a vessel.
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>>3637889
No because Hitler would change our sexual preferences with just a kiss.
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>>3637900
And also, Circe is likely capable of magically altering their appearances back.
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>>3637889
>spoiler
>implying Alberich would do anything of the sort
You're dumb for even asking that question in the first place, go sit in the corner and stay there.
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Also Christmas cakes still have a chance to bear children. Hags are too far gone.
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>>3637930
Anon, you mustn't forget the miracles of age regression magic.
Rin is only 33...
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>>3637952
Don't
Trust
Over
Thirty
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>>3637959
But what about the immortality herb?
Don't you want EUGENICS to give us a child with 7 different elemental alignments?
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>>3637952
>only 33
>only
Anon, one more year and she will hit D-rank on "Alberich's Aesthetics" Tier List.
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>>3637972
So pump and dump before its too late.
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>>3637889
Hag or Swaddle, it doesn't fucking matter.
All girls in this quest are fucking bangable, they're fucking anime sluts.
This isn't a matter of attraction.
If you can read through Alberich's story and decide after everything he's been through with Circe and Adelheid, to simply give them up for something else or demand more, you are a heartless coward and you'll go to hell before you die.
It's really that simple.
What justification can you give for Alberich genuinely falling for anyone else but his first loves, the first people he's ever connected with and felt romantically for? The two people most crucial to getting him to this point.
If he isn't in love with either or both of those two, he is simply incapable of love and all other options are just a means to an end. ie. Eugenics.

Which to be fair could be interesting, but given how compassionate he's become, would totally negate that development.
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>>3637980
"I`ll phone you later, Rin"
Diabolic.
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By the way, now that you've seen her standing up I can inform you folks that Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime is 5'0" tall. 152cm for those of you who prefer metric.
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>>3637988
At least she'll have an heir for the Tohsakas.
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>>3637991
Hot.
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>>3637853
It's not happening. Any attempt at a harem would result in either Alberich getting abandoned or a battle to the death between all possible candidates with one survivor.

>>3637889
Alberich is still an impressionable young man, and Circe and Adelheid are important enough to him that he'll probably just start liking whatever they age into.
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>>3637983

Based, but I'm seeing if other anons are able to look past the dichotomy. Swaddle is also pretty terrible honestly
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>>3637972
>D-rank
Damegami-Tier: reserved for Ishtar and other vile creatures.
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>>3637991
>152cm
Hey, thats about height of my president! Give or take few cms.
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>>3638005
We should see if we can get Judas to laugh simultaneously with us and attempt to go for the closest Gilgamesh like laugh we can.
Also maybe try and get original Rushorou's laugh in there too.
I want a laugh that makes Emiyas across all timespace go berserk.
The Shinji-Gil-Kotomine special.
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>>3638023
Didn't mean to respond to that post but alright.
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>>3638023

You're forgetting one vital ingredient to the laugh gumbo. A worm
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>>3638007
But where does Ereshkigal rank?
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>>3638035
We're also forgetting two more vital ingredients.
His voice
Also his voice, but older.
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>>3638005
That's fair, but unnecessary waifufaggotry really grinds my gears.
It might be easy for me since I love both, but the idea of picking one to the exclusion of the other is ridiculous to me because again, we're talking about anime sluts.

Hag or Swaddle, an anime slut's bangability to me, is dependent on how well they're drawn and characterized. And based on the art I've seen and the story I've read, Circe and Adelheid are the only waifus worth talking about.
You can bicker about who your personal favorite is, but to drive the story based on only your personal preferences and not the preferences of the MC or the current story is how you end up going to hell before you die.
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>>3638050
I mean, Alberich only knew Circe for like 11 days.
He knew Adelheid for even less.
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>>3638050

I like them both Anon, just don't really waifu the Swaddle. But considering that's this far along, well it's less of a problem for me. That and it's namely brought up for shitposting and not the story itself so I think it's fine

>>3638039

And finally we need to add in another dash of Angry Manjew
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I want to KILL Arturia
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>>3638104
that's a waste
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>>3638104
>t. Jak
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>>3638107
>>3638112
>She's motionless for several seconds, then her eyes move back and forth several times. She nods. Finally, the presence of her invisible blade vanishes from her hands. "It seems you are not allowed that mercy," the woman declares. "My Master has ordered me to let you die in your own way. Goodbye, False Saber." With that, the icily regal woman turns and leaps out the window, vanishing into back-alley darkness.
Read that scene again and tell me you don't want to behead the woman.
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>Ereshkigal detests how she was hated and suffered as a social outcast from the age of the gods.
>"I want to try living as freely as Ishtar. I want to meet someone who accepts that I'm mistress of the underworld, but doesn't let that status affect how they see me." she even held such a romantic notion.
>"I won't deny the fact I'm a villain, but evil, as it is, has its uses for humanity. Why does everyone have to be so afraid of me!?"
A waifu of far higher quality than Ishtar.
Possibly even more likely to try and possess Rin after watching Alberich, too.
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>>3638116
I want to corrupt her and see her serve us.
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>>3638119
>When you realize Alberich's life is essentially a daytime TV drama for the gods
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>>3638050
>dependent on how well they're characterized
>Circe and Adelheid are the only waifus worth talking about
I am a failure.
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>>3638126
Anon puts immense disrespect on Ayaka's and Liliesviel's names, ignore him
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>>3638116
I want to prove our superiority over her and make her admit it.
Nothing more than full dominance will suffice.
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>>3638126
He's in a foolish minority, Sweets.
I think the majority of characters are waifus worth talking about.
>>3638124
Now I can't get the image of the Greek Gods being hyped watching the Achilles vs Alberich battle out of my head.
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>>3638126
No, Sweets, you are doing decent job writing females.
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>>3638126
It's less your failure and more the fact that both of them had a longer time to be characterized.
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I just checked and noticed that Kōrakuhime has displayed a lot of empathy for an oni. What was Ogawara's desire again?
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>>3638124
>incest posting, waifuwars, crazy schemes, chronic backstabbing disorder, screeching and totally screwed moral compass
Are we the Gods?
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>>3638144
>>3638122
She has no fields to rape or women to salt, so we'll have to settle for murdering her and her master as brutally as possible
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>>3638190
Yes. When someone asks you if you are a god you say yes.
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>>3638176
I still stand by my idea that resonance Judas talked about could mean that our subconsciousness bleed into each other via shattered soul of Judas.
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>>3638126
No you goon!
Just because a girl shouldn't be considered for waifu doesn't mean they're BAD!
What type of fucked up view of female characters does that imply?

You are doing a great job, it's just the idea that Alberich would consider anyone else but his first and true loves for waifu is, to me, callous on his part.
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>>3638124
I can only imagine how some of the gods would greet us if that were the case.
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>>3638190
An interesting supposition.
We need proof however.
Have any anons here recently shapeshifted into a swan to have sex with women?
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>>3638207
>callous on his part
Give Alberich a break, he's only 3 weeks old.
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>>3638205
>I am the one the only one
+
>Eating children is the most nutritious and delicious method to survive
+
>WRRRRRYYYYYYY FIGHTING
..... Nice
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>>3638207
>What type of fucked up view of female characters does that imply?
The view of someone writing a quest based on a galge?
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>>3638244
A really good galge for a really good quest mind you
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>>3638205
>>3638221
>final battle against FGO villain Alberich is him fully absorbing the essence of the defeated Matsuda and Kourakuhime from the previous fight where you fight all 3 at once.
>becomes ludicrously broken overpowered as the True Final Hero.
>also becomes absolutely livid with the player
>then the true final battle is after the horn gets tooted when you beat him, as he is a sore loser
>>3638244
Based Sweets.
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>>3638194
We have her Ideals to trample, her Honor to sully, her Will to play with. She made this all very personal, just like Kikuko did.
To claim our dominance over her is a matter of Pride and she will kneel.
And besides just killing her will only means that she will comeback next grail war.
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>>3638314
>And besides just killing her will only means that she will comeback next grail war.
Damn, that's a good point.
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>>3638332
A point that we don't know.
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>>3638314
>And besides just killing her will only means that she will comeback next grail war.
That just means we get a new chance to make her kneel and we are a whole lot stronger then.
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>>3638339
A point that can be deduced and learned.
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>>3638345
>When summoning Arturia goes from a 100% guarantee of being one of the last masters alive in the war to being a 100% guarantee of some previous war winner hunting you down and murdering you
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>>3638355
So you mean the fifth war?
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>>3638356
Oh no, I mean Alberich will (after winning the sixth) continually intervene in grail wars looking for his complete revenge against seibah
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>>3638362
That just seems like a chore.
Far easier to just force her into servitude.
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>>3638362
>One step closer to Gilgamesh...
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>>3638339
We know however that she was in previous one and also a special case by words of Shirou.
We also know that he somehow ended up fighting her while he was her Master.
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>>3638314
>She made this all very personal, just like Kikuko did.
So we're just going to make her swear fealty to us and change nothing more? Because that's basically what we did to Kikuko.
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>>3638362
Imagine being seething enough after being insulted by a womanlet that you will hunt down and kill her every time she gets summoned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzFNO4pij8
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>>3638412
Disregarding the fact that Kikuko was brainwashed into serving us and couldn't actually refuse an order we gave her, you're absolutely correct!
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>>3638424
Imagine continuously killing her and not just making her into your maid.
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You know all this talk of pulling a Kikuko and brainwashing Saber is kinda lame.
Like sure we COULD us all our collective meta-knowledge to submit her to a fate worse than death.
But that's kinda gay, and takes a lot of effort both IC and OOC.
So why don't we vore her instead?
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>>3638527

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>>3638527
>vorefag
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>>3638527
>vore
Sorry, bud, I am pretty mild just want to corrupt her.
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So...
Kill a Dragon and get Kouraku a Dragon core to power her up (and use less mana) and ourselves the nigh-impenetrable skin, yes or no?
Also, in addition to doing more damage to Dragons, I think Dragon Slayers take less damage from them too.
Absolutely no-sell Arturia.
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>>3638527
Good lord.
Cease these thoughts, anon.
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>>3638554
>Summoning huge monster in the middle of a city
Learned this one from Prelati`s spellbook, Anon?
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>>3638599
What's the worst that could happen?
Killing a Dragon might even level up our sword.
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>>3638604
>What's the worst that could happen?
Dragon eats you.
Seiba kills dragon with holy sword beam
Dragon destroys the city
Strain of dragon-summoning kills Ayaka with mana drain
...this is a selection of possible negative outcomes, none of which I will confirm, deny, or state the likelihood of. It could go marvelously.
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>>3638613
See? Absolutely nothing could go wrong!
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>>3638620
Father Antaglio wants to know your location.
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>>3638613
>summon Dragon
>Saber shows up
God she would be so confused as to where the fuck a Dragon just appeared from. Also that other Saber is somehow not dead.
>Dragon eats you
"Kenotis"
>Mana-Strain kills Ayaka
This is why we put the strain on the dear people of Tokyo, god bless Leylines
>Dragon destroys city
What a shame.
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>>3638604

Who says we should summon a dragon when we could go hopping into the IN Realm/Reverse Side to hunt it down ourselves? Maybe get hunting tips from Artemis
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>>3638670
We probably wouldn't be getting supplied with any mana while we are in there though.
Although being able to use our sword as a form of travel would be cool.
Portal from place to place.
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>>3638670
>go hopping into the IN Realm/Reverse Side
>use timefuckery in IN Realm to get training montage with Scathach
Thats some hyperbolic time chamber shit here.
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>>3638680
>>3638685
I got a feeling these kind of shenanigans are for after we win this grail war
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>>3638685
>"Hold on Miss Ayaka, we'll be right back."
>one hour later, Saber returns with impenetrable skin, rune magic, A rank physical parameters and his own version of Gae Bolg
>Caster has a Dragon Core and superior magic, also
A man can dream...
Dream Crusher inbound!
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>>3638699
Probably. We could try to do another Akeldama though.
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>>3638710
>another Akeldama
...but why?
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>>3638732
We drag 36 million people into it to empower us.
WIth Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime pretending to be organizer of War and us pretending to be Extra Saber like Extra Assassin was for us.
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>>3638756
Might as well just drag 6 billion people into it if we're gonna be silly and assume that it has no limits.
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>>3638767
I was more jokingly referring to the last update of previous thread with
>How many souls there are here, you think, and something predatory stirs within you. The beings sleeping unaware in these fragile shelters are, in a sense, a great mass of energy waiting to be consumed. Yumigawa Rushorou once heard someone say over 36 million people live in the whole of the Tokyo metropolis. 9 million in the original city alone. If you became this much greater than humanity with only 1,050 sacrifices, how much power could you have taken had the whole of Tokyo been pulled into Akeldama? More than enough to destroy that savage Berserker, to be sure.
This part.
But I would seriously love to break this Grail War even more.
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>>3638767

How about China? Over a billion and delicious
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>>3638790
>China
>souls
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>>3638767
Basically, if it has a max target count that high, it would be some Anti-Humanity NP and I imagine that Judas would've been Alaya'd immediately after being summoned.
Our father did the best he could for us and our siblings.
Except poor Keiseki, he should've known better than to oppose the obvious leader.
>>3638784
Yeah I know, I know. I'm just making sure other anons don't start thinking that's a thing we can do, because we almost certainly cannot.
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Nobody seems to have mentioned it but Kourakuhime calling us "Ani-ue" means she has acknowledged us as the elder.
It's just an incredibly archaic way of saying "older brother."
So that's a plus.

Also in the words of Illya, quoting Shirou, moments before she sacrifices herself for him
>"You said an older brother protects his younger sister, right?"
So that sealed can of PTSD ought to be real fun for him to have forced open.
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>>3638981
Anon, I swear to fuck...
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>>3638981
>It's just an incredibly archaic way of saying "older brother."
That was the crux of the whole "would you prefer another term" joke, yeah.
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>>3639015
Yeah I know, it's just nobody seemed to have picked up on it. Or at least nobody mentioned it.
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>>3639026
I figured it was some ancient "onii-chan" crap from Sweets prior mention of her speech habits.
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Not saying that it's a bad thing. Also I knew that she was gonna get back at us.
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I just hope that Matsuda didn't get genderbent too. I wonder how he would be like, though.
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>>3639068
Knowing Matsuda he's probably doing something really stupid.
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>>3639086
>Next time we see him he's challenging Berserker to a fistfight.
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>>3639099
>implying he's not the berserker we already fought
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>>3639103
????
That was clearly Achilles and he wouldn't have been so strong if it was Matsuda.
Also, he's likely a beowulf like Berserker with low Madness Enhancement.
He'd also probably recognise us, should we meet him.
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>>3639068
Well, there was only one character I dropped hints about being a cross-dresser from thread 1.
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Oh Christ I just realised that Matsuda wouldn't really be willing to listen to Judas if Judas tried to talk with him mentally.
He's far more impulsive than Rushorou and well...
Judas did put a knife to his throat.
He's also far less likely to mentally reflect or break down than Rushorou or Ogawara, respectivelywhoops, my brain appears to have melted

So God only knows what he's doing right now, assuming he didn't fade out.
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>>3639450
Well, the fact that he wasn't the one responsible for the families dying is a good sign.
Or it could mean that he's already fucking dead.
I'm holding out hope that Hime is lying to us and keeping Matsuda in the basement or something. Cause otherwise, I'm not sure why a masterless Berserker hasn't been spotted wreaking havoc. Then again, there is also the possibility that he ended up a Lance and has enough sense to NOT.
Is it possible that maybe the bad luck was from one of the people we know deep sucking on the Leylines maybe?
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>>3639488
>bad luck was from one of the people we know deep sucking on the Leylines maybe?
And now I'm thinking of Caster Matsuda, who would literally just pic-related at everyone.

It's possible he managed to find himself a master, or he developed Independant Action through nothing but Shōnen Spirit.
He's likely Berserker, but I can see him as Lancer or Assassin à la Li Shuwen.
Presence Concealment would certainly explain why Kōrakuhime can't see him, although it's possible that she just hasn't bothered looking.
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>>3639510
I remember when Sweet's asked us the two that everyone went for was either Lance or Berserker.
So if he's a Lance with an Independent Action I guess that would explain some things.
If he was a Berserker though, either he's been captured, or he's dead already cause there is no reason why we shouldn't have heard from him otherwise.
Unless we are in for a real surprise next thread.
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>>3639574
Please stop calling Lancer "Lance".
He could have it as a personal skill, also. He was something of a loner who kept to himself. I do hope our younger brother hasn't gotten into any trouble.
I would find him managing to get a Fujimura as his Master hysterical though.
Sadly unlikely, unless they decided to visit Tokyo on a business trip or something.
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>>3639591
>Please stop calling Lancer "Lance".
Wow, thanks for bringing that to my attention, I had no idea I was doing that.
That aside, the idea of having a personal skill that totally negates the disadvantages of your class is super fucking dumb but I guess this is Fates and anything is possible.

>I do hope our younger brother hasn't gotten into any trouble.
I was gonna make a remark about how it's almost guaranteed but as I type this, something has occurred to me.
Where the fuck is the Master of Rider?
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>>3639631
Yeah, I was thinking the Master of Rider might yet be used against us.
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>>3639663
Of course. Otherwise why the hell would Akagata care about him? In the snippet with Haruo she didn't exactly came across as altruistic.
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>>3639631
Master of archer has him
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>>3639663
>>3639683
>Hag of Archer early on found Matsuda hopping around Tokyo city like a big playground.
>Then suddenly Archer burst from the shade and hit Matsuda with a...I don't know, something.
>Matsuda is now with Hag of Archer who has been shown to be collecting allies to aid her in this war.
>One such ally includes Kajiwara Haruo, a young boy she was able to pressure into making a deal with her.
>This deal may or may not have involved his continued involvement in the war if she was able to ensure his continued existence if he failed.
>So now Kajiwara Haruo is back in action, probably against his will, and is going to be using the power of our own brother against us.
This does beg the question of how the Hag of Archer found out about our unfortunate brother, as well as if his possible cooperation is willing or not.
But this would explain a few things.
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>>3639683
Then it looks like tomorrow is the day that hags die.

Oh and I'm not suggesting it...
But you know who's a massive font of magical energy, that can be drawn on?
Sakura. I mean, also Lily too, actually.
Though this is a real fucking dangerous game to play if we try and go through with using either. Both for obvious reasons.
Lily however may be possible to diplomance into taking Caster as a servant if we can't figure something out.
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>>3639714
>>3639722
So, Archer for our next target? Given that Berserker is still a bit beyond us, and that Archer's master might have Matsuda captive, she seems like a good enough target for us. Although I wouldn't be averse to investigating the Einzbern next either.
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>>3639744
Finding our sister a more subtle power source is a bit higher up on my list of priorities.
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>>3639722
The idea that Lily wouldn't immediately turn her back on us and use our siblings for whatever ill deeds she desires is kinda crazy.
And the idea we'd trust either of them to be in the care of the Emiya's is insane.

Our relationship with these additional servants should be kept as secret as possible.
The only other person that should know about them is Ayaka, and that's because there is no point lying to her about anything.

>>3639744
>So, Archer for our next target?
No.
This is all speculation, and making plans based on random musings is silly.
Our plan right now is dealing with our sister and getting her on our side.
Once that's set, we can all sit down and determine our next move with Ayaka or amoung ourselves.
Trying to play 5d chess is a great way to get frustrated when the most basic foundations of what you think is going on are proven to be wrong in the very next post.
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>>3639756
I'm just referring to the next external thing we deal with. The internal affair that is Kōrakuhime obviously comes first.
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>>3639771
No, I was first off talking about kidnapping either and using them as a mana battery
Both are dangerous as fuck to accomplish though.

I then brought up Lily as a potential ally and not a battery as she'd be far easier to truly befriend than the Emiyas at this point.
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>4 votes
>669 non-qm posts
Neato
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>>3639963
There is a lot to talk about in fate quests
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>>3639963
I've done my best to craft a narrative that deserves discussion.
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>>3639982
A fruitful effort
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>>3639963
My personal favourite part of the discussion this thread is the sudden discussion of eugenics.
We should further discuss eugenics.
Saber is likely a poor choice for eugenics.
Brain problems appear to be a genetic predisposition.
Nero, her ancestor (probably) is slightly batshit insane.
And Mordred....
Oh Mordred.
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>>3640023
>Kshaaaa!
Oh my god. Angry cat Mordred. That's adorable.
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>>3640023
>Mordred
To be fair, Mordred got fucked up by Morgana.
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>>3640049
Ah yes, who can forget her sister.
What a fucking cursed bloodline.
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>>3640023
>Nero, her ancestor
You know, it really would explain a great deal if the Pendragons were descended from the Julio-Claudians.
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>>3640080
I'd think them more Severan, although maybe that's too lowbrow
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>>3640080
I mean, Caesar did claim ancestry to Aeneas, who was in turn a son of Venus/Aphrodite.

I guess good looks had to crop up here and there along the family tree.

Good god, what if Venus is a Saberface?
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>>3640093
The Severans were certainly the first "knightly" dynasty of Rome, although they hardly produced the last martial emperors. Severus' attitude towards the army fits well with the round table as well; I can definitely see the parallel.
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>>3640097
Stop! You're giving Takeuchi ideas!
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>>3639963
Well don't mind if I do
>>3637211
>[ ] "No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!" (Pride/Compassion)
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the last thread needs to be archived, still.
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>>3640158
I'll get to it...
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>>3639963
Did we ever figure out what timezone Sweets operate in?
Cause as nice as it is waking up to updates before I head off to work, that is usually proceeded by me staying up way later than I should waiting for it.
It would be nice to know when we are most likely not getting an update due to sleep or work, so I don't have to be tabbing over to the thread every 5-10 minutes.
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>>3640279
West Coast of Burgerland.
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"No matter," you announce, getting to your feet. "Whatever you have done, you remain a member of my family. Kōrakuhime, come to the Shijou manor with me and we shall find a way of sustaining you without the consumption of human life!"

"Oh," Kōrakuhime sighs quietly. "I suppose you would not be... content, to simply depart? To... leave me to pursue my sustenance in my own... manner?"

"I would not," you answer gravely. "You are a Servant, and regardless of your intentions this makes you a part of the Holy Grail War. You shall be either my ally or my enemy, Kōrakuhime. You, of all people, must understand what this entails."

"I... do, yes," Kōrakuhime says. "Shall we go once I have finished my meal, then, Ani-ue? You surely will not protest my finishing those... already prepared."

"Fine, but eat quickly," you answer. "There are other magi hunting you, as I said. One may yet find you tonight."

Kōrakuhime takes another slice of meat with her chopsticks, carefully picking it up in a shape edible without necessitating a wide opening of her lips. The careful etiquette and dainty motions she displays are a lovely sight, you have to admit; the proportion of movement in each gesture gracefully calculated, like the steps of a fine dancer. But where would Ogawara, an otaku unconcerned with appearances, have learned to put such care into his dining manners? Certainly it would be strange for them to have come with the class of Caster, as your skill with a sword came to you. It's a mystery you ponder on as you silently watch Kōrakuhime savoring her dinner. Then the impression of grace is broken, as she licks blood from her lips again in a decidedly non-formal manner.

"I used to be such a... squeamish person," Kōrakuhime says dreamily. "I did always... enjoy cooking, of course, but I always felt it was... a bit of a trial, preparing meat. It has such a way of... leaving traces behind. Flesh and blood truly... disgusted me. The things that change about us are... fascinating, wouldn't you say? How have you changed, since becoming a Servant, Ani-ue?"

"I have grown stronger," you answer. "And that is all. Now, let us go; if you are quite finished."

"Yes," she says as the two of you get up and depart the dining room, "we can be on our way. All that remains in this house now is... burnable waste. Oh, and your Master, of course." This last comment is uttered as you catch sight of Ayaka, sprawled on the couch in the living room; unconscious.

"What have you done," you demand of Kōrakuhime as you rush over to the prone form. She's breathing steadily, at least, and your flow of mystic energy is being maintained without issue. As you look back to Kōrakuhime, you see that she has her hand over her mouth in a posture of shock. Her eyes, however, are mirthful.
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"Now, don't be angry with me, Ani-ue," she softly protests, "I merely... put her to sleep, that we might converse uninterrupted. See now, she will awaken in a moment." True to her claim, Ayaka's eyes flutter open and she looks around groggily.

"Saber-san," she says in confusion, still sounding half-asleep "what, uh, what happened? I don't remember..."

"I met the Servant who's been causing the fires," you answer. "It transpired that she is my sister. We've decided to work together, and try to find a way to sustain her existence without her preying on humans." As you explain, Kōrakuhime walks up beside you and gives Ayaka a little wave. The girl blinks several times, before collapsing back into a faint. Tonight, it seems, has been too much for her.

"I did nothing that time," Kōrakuhime quickly says, precluding your accusation. "The girl seems to have fallen into a swoon."

"Very well then," you say with a sigh, and hoist Ayaka up in your arms. "We'd better be going."

After the two of you walk out of the house, Kōrakuhime draws a paper talisman inscribed with cursive kanji from one of her long sleeves and presses it to the front door. You can barely tell that it's in Japanese, looking at it; the calligraphy is in such archaic cursive that it may as well be another language. Such is the way of magic, you suppose. Kōrakuhime's command to it, by contrast, is anything but unintelligible.

"Burn," she intones, and at her word the entire building flares at once into a great blaze. You leap back to keep Ayaka away from the dangerous heat, then further to the top of a house across the street. Kōrakuhime remains at the fringe of the fire for a moment, staring into the crackling tongues of interspersed blue and red flame. Her furisode, despite its opulent silk construction and profusion of fragile lace and ribbon ornaments, remains unmarred by the searing heat of the inferno. After a long moment she turns, a red miniature hat shimmering into existence perched at a precarious angle on her head, and floats up to join you. She doesn't jump, as you do, but seems to be wafted into the air, like a leaf born on the breeze.

"Please," she says, "lead on."

>[ ] Ask Kōrakuhime something as you travel back to the Shijou manor. (Write in)

>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question. (Write in)

>[ ] Make the trip in silence.
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>>3640329
What are the odds someone saw us leaving with the mass murdering Servant?
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>>3640329
>[ ] Ask Kōrakuhime something as you travel back to the Shijou manor. (Write in)
Why have you been watching me so intently via scrying if your magical energy is so hard to come by?
I don't see why you guys trust her so much just because Ogawara googled a couple servants for us in Akeldama
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>>3640329
>[ ] Ask Kōrakuhime something as you travel back to the Shijou manor. (Powerset. What exactly can she do, besides Eat, make others sleep, burn, repeat?)
>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question. (Return to the topic of changes, maybe we've been steadfast in our mannerisms, but she clearly feels differently. I'd like her to speak of herself,
this time uninterrupted by Alberich haste.)
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>>3640380
And now.
I sleep.
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>>3640329

>[ ] Ask Kōrakuhime something as you travel back to the Shijou manor. (Write in)

>What sort of magecraft is she capable of
>Discuss Servants that the two of us have encountered for this Grail War

>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question.
>What exactly has changed about her from the time she 'was' Ogawara.
>Matsuda, what does she know of his whereabouts
>Lastly, what does she WANT? Since she's in this Grail War what is her end goal for it?
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>>3640407
>Matsuda, what does she know of his whereabouts
She stated that she knows nothing, though we should ask if she has noticed any rashes of bad luck within the city.
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>>3640329
>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question. (Return to the topic of changes, maybe we've been steadfast in our mannerisms, but she clearly feels differently. I'd like her to speak of herself, this time uninterrupted by Alberich's haste.)
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>>3640380
>>3640407
If you'd like to ask/discuss more than one thing, please list them in the order you'd like to bring them up. Discussions do eat time, after all.
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>>3640416

Ah right, well better change it

>>3640407
>>3640438

>[ ] Ask Kōrakuhime something as you travel back to the Shijou manor. (Write in)

>Third: What sort of magecraft is she capable of, NPs, that sort of thing
>First: Discuss Servants that the two of us have encountered for this Grail War
>Second: Has she noticed bad luck going around the city?

>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question.

>Final: C-C-C-Changes, how does she feel different from the time in Akeldama? Both in personality and in existence

With Kōrakuhime on board I think we're prepared enough to take a read through of the Five Element Transmutation notes
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>>3640445
NPs might not be the best thing to discuss in public.
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>>3640329
Backing >>3640445.
Particularly the bit about finishing Elemental Transmutation. I want more power, dammit
However, we shall not talk about her NPs, just the Magecraft. The full debriefing can wait until we reach the Shijou manor.
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>>3640329
Knocking our master unconscious and then laughing about it when we're mad is a little alarming. This chuuni needs to learn her place in the pecking order.
Also I doubt Ayaka will be happy about us inviting a literal monster into her mansion.
>[ ] Ask Kōrakuhime something as you travel back to the Shijou manor. (Write in)
Ask her about everything Judas told her.
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I'm really not a fan of this latest twist, it takes a lot away from our hard earned victory in Akeldama. We could've just sat around and survived til the end of the war and still become what we are. It might have been cool if this were the next stage of Judas' hero creation, setting the three of us against each other in the real world to select the strongest hero but teaming up is way less interesting.
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>>3640329
>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question.
>1st: Ask if she has a preference for how she'd like to be addressed. "Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime" seems a bit distant for a brother to his sister.
>2nd: Return to the topic of changes, maybe we've been steadfast in our mannerisms, but she clearly feels differently.

We can save discussion of magecraft for sibling bonding time when we have all the materials in front of us.

Additionally, I think we ought to start spending the night by Ayaka's side, at least until we're sure we've built greater trust between us and Kōrakuhime. While she hopefully wouldn't try anything, she's already much more openly resistant to our authority, I don't want her using her vastly greater knowledge of magecraft to try to take Ayaka's place as our Master once she has an alternative means of sustenance.
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>>3640670
Well now, I'm sorry you feel that way. Consider this: neither Matsuda nor Ogawara were able to make it to the pseudo-grail without your help. Both would've died without your intervention. Neither demonstrated the capacity to win the Akeldama Grail War on their own.
If you had tried to just sit around and survive, there would be four dead hero candidates rather than one. Your success has brought others with you, but that doesn't negate the fact that it was your success.
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>>3640695
Yeah, but the majority of their time was spent doing nothing in the university while we were out fighting. Why did Judas still want to empower them with valuable energy when they didn't earn it themselves? They weren't particularly heroic in any way, which I thought was Judas' aim.
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>>3640695
Obviously I still love the quest and I don't mean to bitch but I'm scratching my head about some of the reasoning here.
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>>3640671
I agree that she can't be trusted yet. Isn't taking her in without first securing a source of energy for her way too risky? What if we fail to supply her and she goes out for another snack and that comes back on us?
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>>3640735
If we fail to supply her then we kill her. Simple as.
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>>3640708
Look at it from Judas' perspective. He structured this ritual that had to complete its function with his death, and would result in the deaths of most of its participants.
Now, the purpose of the ritual is to create at least one hero, with four candidates. From the point of view of Akeldama as a functioning ritual, what the people do in the inner grail war is irrelevant. Provided the necessary sacrifices die, the ritual functions.
You're thinking of the energy as something like a reward for the work you did of surviving the inner grail war, but that's not so. The energy of the sacrifices was your birthright, allotted to you from the beginning. Your reward for the inner grail war is survival, and you (the players) made the choice to share that reward with others. You had the option of going through it alone, and didn't take that option. Now you have an ally; a sibling, who shares your birthright, and that too is the result of your actions. You gave her the opportunity to receive the energy of Akeldama's sacrifice.
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>>3640744
Yeah I'm sure the sisterfags will go for that. I bet they'd sacrifice our own energy supply from Ayaka before they'd kill her.
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>>3640735
We have a reliable stopgap measure in the ancient art of tonsil hockey. That was enough to make up for Adelheid's massive deficit in the Akeldama until we maimed our command spell, so it should be able to hold Kōrakuhime over.
Sucking face with our sister is a strange, perhaps even morally dubious solution - I'm not going to contest that - but given that the alternatives are letting her die or letting her feast on innocents, I'd say there are sufficiently extenuating circumstances to justify its use until a better method is found.
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>>3640747
To develop on this theme a bit more, consider the idea of the destined hero.
Mythical heroes such as Cú Chulainn and Heracles didn't receive their power through hard work or effort. They were born powerful; demigods from the beginning, always destined to be above humanity. Their myths are about how they use this superiority, not how they earn it. They don't have to. It's a feature of precapitalist culture that it produces such myths. Today we're fascinated with the idea of earning a higher station, but that wasn't so for the ancient peoples.
Alberich and his siblings are heroes in that mold. Akeldama was the birthing process for you; the painful experience of entering the world. The aberration here is not that three survived, but that Keiseki miscarried.
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>>3640747
I'd rather reclaim the energy we could have obtained rather than letting our sibling ride along on our coattails. Matsuda contributed well to our efforts but Ogawara was mostly just there. Sure he found out the identity of Archer but that honestly didn't change much for us Now she's a creepy man-eater who will continue to ride on our coattails instead of finding her own legitimate long-term source of energy.
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>>3640774
I picture Alberich as disgusted by those given power who don't deserve it as he does. If he weren't prideful then he wouldn't have an issue, but as he is now I think it would really piss him off. But maybe that's just my interpretation.
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>>3640774
>hard work or effort
I don't know why I wrote that. Should've been "hard work or achievement."
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>>3640771
I don't think that actually works between servants. And making Ayaka do so would leave her too drained to support us in combat. I'm in favor of the letting her die alternative if it comes to having to share power with her. We've shared more than enough power that would have been ours with her already.
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>>3640803
You could brainstorm a way for her to eat people more stealthily.
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>>3640809
I don't think there's any way that won't draw the attention of the mage community or especially the church. She's a huge liability if she continues eating people.
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>>3640809
Nah, we just need to kill her. And Matsuda. Then kill Ayaka after. Fuck it, let's kill everyone. What could go wrong?
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>>3640828
What indeed?
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>>3640791
I feel like you're forgetting that, under all his pride, Alberich is perhaps the loneliest creature alive right now. His memories are someone else's, the only two people he's felt a strong connection with are God knows where (if they even still exist), and he can't even share a basic sense of being of the same species with those around him.

>>3640803
>I don't think that actually works between servants
I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't. We have magical energy rank B, Servants don't use all the energy their supplied, and servants' bodies are still quite similar to human ones and should have magical similarities in that regard (bodily fluids containing magical energy and the like).
Thankfully, given our sister's eating patterns, we should have about a day or more to arrange something. Personally, I suggest we attempt to locate Kikuko and have her be Kōrakuhime's energy source.
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>>3640837
I'm concerned that our priorities are getting really skewed right now. Shouldn't our main focus be to win the grail war? Now we're worrying about supporting someone who can't even fight by our side without getting the overseer on our ass for involving outside parties in the grail war.
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>>3640834
>pic
Are you saying that I'm getting ahead of myself?
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Alright, I've finally gotten Awakening Mirror Part IV archived. Processing it took an age and a half, for some reason.

>>3640861
It's not a good time to lose one's head, is all.
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>>3640859
>for involving outside parties in the grail war
You're worried about this now?
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>>3640876
Yes, just like I have been the whole time.
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>>3640859
>Shouldn't our main focus be to win the grail war?
And recruiting a Caster to aid us somehow isn't aligned with that goal?
>Now we're worrying about supporting someone who can't even fight by our side
We did this throughout the entirety of Akeldama. It's nothing new.
>for involving outside parties in the grail war.
We're in far too deep with the Emiyas to stop doing things for this reason. It's not like our sister is entirely uninvolved, either - just like us, she was a Servant created by Judas' Noble Phantasm to fight in this war on his behalf. The only difference is that we got bound to a preexisting Master.
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>>3640876
To be fair, he's probably been complaining about how the story's been going this whole time, from the moment we even considered Ayaka as an alternative Master.

Here's a question with that train of thought though: Why didn't we kill/abandon Truvi when her Servant died? There was no real reason to let her live at that time, she obviously overstayed her usefulness. Why did we even care about sheltering everybody before the final battle?
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I'm just think that the players are at the "omg this is my sister now I'll do anything for her" stage and it doesn't make any sense. Sorry to shit up the thread, just voicing my thoughts.
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>>3640914
>Why didn't we kill/abandon Truvi when her Servant died? There was no real reason to let her live at that time, she obviously overstayed her usefulness. Why did we even care about sheltering everybody before the final battle?
I was wondering about this at the time, myself. Impact of compassion.
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>>3640914
Because Alberich isn't actually a pure evil monster? He's always protected his allies to the best of his ability. You may as well ask why he didn't kill Kikuko after she used her command spell.
>>3640791
But Alberich was the only one capable of competing, his siblings were ones he chose to protect of his own volition. They also didn't become mildly superhuman or get a super ghost to fight for them.
Also, it's unlikely he'd kill the only two people on the planet that are the same as him, who can truly understand him.
Especially with how lonely he's been deep down.
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Oh, I forgot one: WHY oh WHY did we sacrifice an opportunity to kill Longinus in exchange for Matsuda at the time?
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It was probably going to be a Dead End but still.
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>>3640934
Oh not really, if there's nothing we can do, she might have to die.
But Alberich himself should understand that in killing her, he would be killing one of the few people capable of ever understanding him. His sister.
>>3640989
Because Matsuda is a bro.
It's one of Alberich's redeeming (and somewhat foolish) qualities that he prioritises the well-being of those he considers subordinates (and friends, or loved ones) over victory.
He did it in the final battle by rushing off to find Caster after her injury, endangering his chance to win.
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>>3641011
>He did it in the final battle by rushing off to find Caster after her injury, endangering his chance to win.
Oh yeah, we did do that. We wouldn't have done that if we cared so much about victory.

>But that's different because she's our wai--
"No." If we were that single-minded in obtaining victory then we wouldn't have done a decent chunk of the shit we did back in CA.
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By the way, I'm gonna support >>3640671.
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>>3640671
I'll support this too.
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>>3641031
Yeah, he did a lot of things a man obsessed with victory wouldn't.
Saving Matsuda
Keeping the alliance with Truvi after she'd outlived her usefulness
Having Caster teleport us to Truvi after she lost her servant
Demanding our allies take shelter instead of making other preperations during the last minutes before the battle.
Running after the injured Caster.

He's a paragon of LOYALTY.
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>>3641059
>He's a paragon of LOYALTY
Coming off a little strong there mate
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>>3641059
Truly a man worthy of his voice.
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>>3641061
You would doubt the LOYALTY of Alberich?
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So I wonder how the Emiya's would feel about adopting a Servant. I bet his kids are just huge mana generators like their mother so maybe the son would like a cute 5 foot female(male) oni as a servant.
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>>3641294
stop forcing your depraved fetishes on an innocent child of a very strong person who would flip out if we did anything to the kid
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>>3641308
Getting a Servant builds character. Its not like Hime wanted to eat people so if she(he) had a constant supply of mana she(he) should be fine.
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>>3641331
Yes, getting a Servant and running into numberless dead ends builds character, but would you let your kid enter a Grail War if he didn't even notice you set the clocks a half-hour fast?
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>>3641347
who says he has to enter the war? If anything Alberich and his siblings are just extras in this similar to Medusa. They don't have to fight. If anything if Artoria and maybe Lancer are alive then maybe the grail will be sufficient enough to grant wishes.

What we are doing at this point is coming in as a third party to take the grail for ourselves.
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>>3641294
Mmm
"No."
Emiya himself said he would be able to recognise the servant who's been burning the houses should he meet them.
Not to mention Kourakuhime is obviously an Oni.
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>>3635457
mana rich Saber Semen(tm)
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>>3641372
So you're saying we have uses for Arturia beyond eating her?
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>>3641394
The usage is making her a maid.

I'm just glad we're getting along with our little sister.
Alberich and Kourakuhime are a fun pair already.
Kourakuhime is likely the weakest of the three siblings, honestly.
With Alberich being the strongest and Matsuda(?) Being the second strongest.
Not to say she's weak, but I'd be surprised if her magic skills were anywhere close to Circe's.
She's lucky she has such a kind older brother to look out for her.

We should suggest preying upon criminal groups and things like slavery rings. Large groups of people the public wouldn't notice missing, or if she desperately needs a lot...

We crash a train and have her eat everyone on board.

Honestly, it's tough sometimes, being the only member of your team capable of making a decent plan.
"I'm going to do the same thing for multiple days in a row and get everyone's attention even though I'll probably die."
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>>3641414
Actually, never mind a train.
A plane would be far more effective, as a good plane crash eliminates any evidence by itself AND we can crashland it into the ocean, meaning nobody can investigate it in any reasonable manner of time.
Thank goodness for crashlanding planes, eh Kiritsugu?
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>>3641414
>Kourakuhime is likely the weakest of the three siblings, honestly.
Who knows? Maybe her NP will be as strong as Bone Collector or as weak (against us) as Providential Oni Poison. Who knows?
Us when we interrogate her at the Shijou manor.
>We should suggest preying upon criminal groups and things like slavery rings. Large groups of people the public wouldn't notice missing
No objections there.
>or if she desperately needs a lot...
>We crash a train and have her eat everyone on board.
Maybe we can just dip in the leyline; short-term exposure shouldn't do much harm to Tokyo.
>Honestly, it's tough sometimes, being the only member of your team capable of making a decent plan.
Sigh. We need to talk to the Emiyas later and draw up an actual plan before we fight Achilles. I wish we could go alone, but unfortunately we need Medusa, Shirou and Rin with us to beat both him and Lumenza.
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>>3641420
But then we'd have to look up schedules, go out to the middle of the sea at the right time, crash a plane, make sure everyone gets killed and eaten, and then find and destroy the black box.
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>>3641423
Infiltrating and crashing a plane would be very easy for two literal superhumans.
Finding and destroying the black box should be highly simple, we can look up the planes schematics at an internet cafe or just ask Caster to use structural analysis. Which is like the simplest spell.
Then we can just Kenotis the entire section it's in.
Making sure everyone gets killed and eaten is also very simple. Servants are Servants, after all, killing thousands of mundanes shouldn't even break a sweat.
Also, we're in Tokyo, we could literally just get any plane going to America.
A few hours of work at most.
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>>3641429
Not to mention we'd have to take Ayaka with us because we can't leave her defenceless.
Good luck convincing Ayaka to come on plane-crashing expeditions.
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>>3641432
We could maybe leave her with the Emiyas.
Or have Caster cast sleepytime on her again.
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Actually, if we're going to kill everyone on a plane there's no reason we can't just do it during the day.
>Leave Ayaka at the mansion for a few hours.
>Perform the hijack
>Kill everyone on board
>Have Caster take their energy
>Kenotis away the Black Box
>Crash it into the ocean.
>Get back in time for lunch.
>One up Kiritsugu on "Top 10 most mysterious unexplained plane crashes" lists worldwide
Or is this going too far?
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>>3641526
Killing humans is the most shortsighted way to get energy and this plan is retarded
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>>3641553
You can't just call it retarded and not offer any points as to why.
It
>is Risk-free, there shouldn't be any servants at an airport or on an outgoing plane
>gives a large amount of energy to Kourakuhime, planes can carry hundreds of people
>is untraceable, any magus looking to discover the truth will have to locate and reach a plane at the bottom of the sea
>can be done during the day with no drawbacks
Hell, it's highly likely Kourakuhime can cast some sort of glamour on us both to hide our identities. It's a plan that is actually relatively flawless, if incredibly evil.
Of course if we can find a way to sustain her without sacrificing humans, that would be preferable.
It's just an option.
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>>3641557
It leaves our only allies defenceless if Lumenza comes by.
Speaking of, they'll want to know why we're going out to sea so often.
It gives everyone else plenty of time to set traps for us to spring when we come back; in general, it gives everyone else lots of time to do whatever they like unmonitored by us.
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>>3641557
>It's a plan that is actually relatively flawless
On the contrary, it's riddled with problems.
To actually get on the plane, we'll need tickets and passports unless Kōrakuhime constantly uses magic on us to cheat us through security at every step of the way at the airport.
The plan really falls apart when you consider that we'll both have to be on the plane itself when it crashes. So unless you have a plan to make it back to Tokyo after the flight goes down in the middle of the ocean, we could be out of the War for days or weeks, leaving Ayaka completely unguarded. We also don't have access to spirit form, and it's unlikely that Kōrakuhime does either, so we will have to physically swim back to Tokyo if the crash doesn't kill our technically-still-living bodies.
Not to mention that any mage with familiars in the city monitoring activity could easily notice that weird Saber's mysterious period of inactivity beginning shortly before that unexplained plane crash and resurfacing some time later with a lot more energy. Pray that mage doesn't happen to be in the Emiya clan or go to the Overseer about a Servant causing excess casualties and needing to be stopped (i.e. Team Cool in the Fourth Grail War).
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>>3641570
I don't mean constantly crash planes, that would be silly.
Lumenza wouldn't attack during the day either, and honestly, Berserker is so fucking broken that it wouldn't make a difference even if we and a Caster running on fumes were there.
>>3641574
>need tickets and passports
If Caster can magically disguise herself (and us) then we could just seek out a couple, kill them, take their tickets and passports and pretend to be them.
>get back to Tokyo
We're superhumanly fast and Caster can float through the air, it shouldn't take long even if we swim.
>planecrash killing a servant
Now that's just silly, we're technically still alive but it's not like we've been incarnated and are weak to things with no mystery
The last points about magi and their familiars are irrelevant because we wouldn't be gone for that long.

Team Cool's excess casualties were gruesome and obvious, not unlike Kourakuhime's before this point.
Most magi will likely write off a plane crash as stupid mundanes fucking up as usual.
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>>3641586
I mean, I would hope Caster has some magic disguise because otherwise she doesn't get to go out at all during the day because she has immensely obvious horns and sharp teeth.
Unless she's trying to pretend she's a cosplayer or something.
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>>3641586
>Lumenza wouldn't attack during the day either
Now that he's confirmed that Team Shirou can't touch Berserker without us and since we know he can pilot Berserker to be subtle, there's not a lot stopping him from running in there, killing everyone and mind-wiping the bystanders.
>Berserker is so fucking broken that it wouldn't make a difference even if we and a Caster running on fumes were there
Caster running on fumes is the only one who wouldn't make a difference, while we're needed to harm Berserker in the first place.
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>>3641606
We can't touch Berserker if Lumenza chooses to attack the mansion with only us there.
We only have a chance when he's being ranked down by Cybele.
Though if Caster gets enough mana I imagine she'd be able to set up a bounded field powerful enough to rank down Berserker's parameters.
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>>3641616
>We can't touch Berserker if Lumenza chooses to attack the mansion with only us there.
Remember that in all the dead ends we died because we couldn't keep track of Berserker and therefore couldn't anticipate him.
We do have a small chance because the bounded field that lets us track everything on the property will also let us follow him.
And, by the way, Lumenza will have spent a lot of energy to heal him as much as possible after he lost that arm, so he might be at a disadvantage, however small.

We still need team Shirou to have a good chance of killing him. Caster's presence is a bonus because she can buff Medusa and Shirou.

In the end, we shouldn't let any of them out of our range, so everyone can get together if he attacks.
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>>3641586
>it shouldn't take long even if we swim.
Disregarding the ability of Servants to tire, I think you're drastically overestimating the speed of swimming. Even Olympians have a top speed of just five or six miles per hour in the water, and it's not like being a Servant guarantees that you'll be a good swimmer. If we want to get out far enough that the wreckage is near impossible to find, returning to land will take an unacceptably long time.
>we wouldn't be gone for that long.
Yes we would. See above.
>Most magi will likely write off a plane crash as stupid mundanes fucking up as usual.
Kerry Dos is in this war, you know, and the original Kerry was infamous for shooting down a plane because his target was on it. Even if other magi aren't looking for us specifically, it's likely to draw attention. Kerry Dos himself might investigate thinking another mage is trying to frame him, draw him out, or get him eliminated.

>>3641630
>Lumenza will have spent a lot of energy to heal him as much as possible after he lost that arm
He might have gotten the arm back, and if he did he can just stick it back on where it came off.
>Caster's presence is a bonus because she can buff Medusa and Shirou.
I doubt this is a good idea unless we clear things up between Shirou and Caster ahead of time, and I don't know if it's smart to let them meet while Caster doesn't feel even a hint of remorse for what she's done.
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>>3641630
So you're saying that we should take our sister to the very people that want to kill her.
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>>3641630
>Caster's presence is a bonus
Ahaha
Nope.
Shirou would realise who Caster is (and what she's been doing) by her magical energy, fucking magic bloodhound senses.
We cannot allow Shirou or the Emiya faction to know about Caster.

Obviously the "Crashing this plane, with no survivors!" plan would need some preperation to pull off well, but the magical energy of 400-600 people would be very useful indeed.
But it's a last resort if anything.
Going after underground congregations will suffice until we figure something out.
>>3641636
>even Olympians
Olympians aren't Servants and can't move faster than the eye can perceive.
Ah! We wouldn't actually need to swim.
We could use this as an opportunity to try summoning an aquatic creature that agrees to carry us from INS and ride that back. (As it is carrying us, our abysmal riding skill wouldn't have to be used)
Also
>drawing out Harris
>a bad thing
Last time we didn't have a Caster on our side for that fight. I'd like to see him face off against an Oni Caster hopped up on the energy of a huge amount of people while we distract Saber. It would not go well for him.
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>>3641636
>>3641637
>>3641656
brain coil burnt, sorry
Disregard that part.
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>>3640671
Supporting this. Lets save important discussion until we are home and just stick to a small talk.

I would also suggest that we now involve Kōrakuhime alongside Ayaka in our magical training. If she now have all obligatory Caster knowledge it would be extremely beneficial for out training and unlocking Ayaka`s family magecraft secrets she currently can`t access.
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We probably should try out our sword's summoning ability.
And try to level up our damn Riding skill.
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>>3641656
>Olympians aren't Servants and can't move faster than the eye can perceive.
It's still very optimistic to think that that movement speed will transfer smoothly into water given just how different the physics are when compared to bombing around on land. Further, between the airport, the flight, and the return, the whole affair would take several hours at the very least. And this all assumes that Alberich won't get exhausted from such a long swim even though Servants aren't immune to fatigue.
>We could use this as an opportunity to try
Somehow, I don't think a plane crash in the middle of the ocean is a good time to "try" anything.

>Caster
>Against a Saber who counters pretty much the entire class and fucking Kerry Dos
Yeah, good luck with that.

All in all, it's a ridiculous idea and I don't think it's worth discussing further.

>>3641981
>And try to level up our damn Riding skill.
To what end?
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>>3641981
>And try to level up our damn Riding skill.
Anon, she is our sister.
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>>3641988
Ptolemy approves.
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>>3641981
>He cares about riding
A pleb skills for servants who's own strengths can't cut it.

>>3641999
>He listens to the worst dynasty
Point stands tho
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>>3642000
>he doesn't want to look even more badass with a manticore mount
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>>3642007
>Caring about looking badass
I want goddamned magic! Not a horse! Even if we could ride a dragon, it'd be better for us to just kill the damn thing.
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>>3641988
I meant by summoning a kelpie or something. Now isn't the time for these thoughts.
>>3641985
>implying we'd just throw Caster at Saber.
ID, there's a reason I said "distract Saber"
We can just have Kourakuhime cut off Harris' arm with the command spells on.
Then he's pretty much fucked.
Kiritsugu never tries to 1v1 a servant because he knows he'd fucking die.

The same is likely true for Kerry Dos, especially considering he couldn't instantly kill Vaisset, who wasn't even a combat magus.
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>>3642016
The more I think about Vaisset, the more I regret his death. He seemed to be a magus of some ability, who could've given Alberich some real power without all the trouble of deciphering his notes. Oh well. At least we got Ayaka out of it.
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>>3642014
>wanting to be a nerd
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>>3642023
Yes, Harris will pay dearly for his death.
And Saber will pay dearly for her actions too.
Speaking of Saber, we can properly shit talk her in the next fight.
>"So Saber, are you planning on betraying your current Master like you did your last?"
As for Excalibur, cutting it in two might be impossible. It's kind of a bullshit sword.
>>3642014
But flying mounts are cool...
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>>3642060
>He doesn't want unlimited knowledge, strength, and Servant Power
Virgin mindset

>>3642071
I'm always up for taunting Saber.

>He wants to get excaliblasted out of the sky just like Medusa in Fate
Hard no for me man. Even without that OOC knowledge, I'm sure Archer could shoot us down if we didn't have a Bellerophon-tier speedy boi
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>>3642016
>Vaisset, who wasn't even a combat magus.
Vaisset was a combat magus, though. Had I not made that obvious?
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>>3642078
You made it clear he had combat abilities, but he certainly seemed to have a much stronger research bent to him
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>>3642080
One of the plot threads if he'd survived was going to be about dealing with the fact that he was a talented magus from a long line of combat magi, trained almost exclusively for combat, who despised violence between magi because his father had died in a pointless magus honor-duel. That's why he kept blowing things up when doing experiments.
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>>3642076
We could literally get a Pegasus though, if we wanted.
The solution is to not charge straight towards Saber and let her Excaliblast you.
If we've got a Pegasus we can literally just dodge everything she throws at us and rift slash Harris.
>>3642084
Oh I see.
But just having talent isn't a substitute for actual experience in a fight. Medea getting her shit slapped around by Rin is evidence of this.
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>>3642071
>Speaking of Saber, we can properly shit talk her in the next fight.
That False Saber really have it coming for refusing us a proper fight, going for Master kill like a craven, refusing to show us her sword and not announcing her True Name like any paragon of knightly virtues like us did. As her senpai we must really set her on the right path so that she would not disgrace name of Saber any further.
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>>3642102
>just having talent isn't a substitute for actual experience in a fight
Yep. That's why Harris kicked his shit in and turned him into paste.
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>>3642084
>Pacifist magus takes over for his imouto in the Holy Grail War and dies gruesomely for it
Damn it Vaisset, now I kinda-sorta feel bad for you.

>>3642102
But for that we'd need to invest some serious effort into riding. Pegasus isn't exactly a C-tier mount. Not worth it imo.

>>3642104
Even if he had experience I imagine the Second Magus Killer would still have killed the magi
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>>3642016
You know who 1v1s a Master in FSN and loses?
Caster.
Rin punches her and she nearly dies. The only reason she doesn't is because Shirou fails to hold out long enough against Kuzuki. Kirei even manages to win a 1v2 against a Master-Servant combo. I find it hard to believe that Kerry Dos won't be able to win against a Caster with no combat experience whatsoever.
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>>3642111
She is an oni though.
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Oh wait.

>Ayaka was the original summoner in the war
>Ayaka has inherited the Shijou lineage, which is all about sacrifices and life energy
>She accidentally summons Judas, who while personally weak could via mass sacrifice create a decent-tier servant
>We blamed Vaisset for being willing to murder all those people in thread one, when in reality it was indirectly all based around Ayaka
>It was this enmity for Vaisset which (at least partially) lead to his death
Shieeeeet
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>>3642115
Wow, so it really was our fault.
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>>3642103
>"don't disgrace the name of Saber further"
t. Man pondering benefits of eating all of Tokyo
>>3642110
>invest into riding
We could possibly convince something to agree to carry us as a stop-gap.
> Second Magus Killer would still have killed the magi
Possibly, but it's also possible he could have managed an escape. Magus Killers specialise in facing off against Magus that while powerful, aren't combat oriented.
Fucking Kiritsugu would've been killed in seconds against Kirei if he didn't have Avalon.
>>3642111
Rin, an incredibly power magus, with her gems, managed to trick Medea, who was being too smug for her own good and let Rin get into melee distance.
If Medea wasn't fucking around Rin would be super dead
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>>3640380
>>3640438
Finally got home.
Forget about the questions, we can ask that later when Ayaka is awake.
>[ ] Raise a topic, rather than asking a question.
>First: Return to the topic of changes, blah blah blah.
>Second: How we've been spending out time since we became what they are.
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>>3642084
>pacifist with a talent for war fights to protect those he love even if it killed him
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>>3642127
>t. Man pondering benefits of eating all of Tokyo
Disingenuous arguments are fucking great, ain't they?
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>>3642133
I want to make Harris suffer!
And bad news for him, now we've got a Caster, we can!
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>>3642133
Well, he entrusted Ayaka to us. And she was probably the only thing he truly cared about after death of their parents.
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>>3642133
>>3642140
>>3642142
I reiterate- I want to MURDER saber. Also Harris.
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>>3642156
Saber didn't do anything wrong though.
I doubt she's happy about it being ANOTHER Kiritsugu situation.
She was also pissed off that the war appeared to already be fucked.
And she was right.
This war is more fucked than anyone can possibly imagine.

This guy hasn't got shit on Kerry anyway, otherwise we'd have got a suicide order for our trouble.
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>>3641414
>We crash a train and have her eat everyone on board.
I have to admit, I do like this.
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>>3642115
Feels bad.
At least we tried our hardest.
We didn't let him die on purpose.
We were just up against a pain in the ass to fight.
And so was Vaisset.
We'll avenge him.

Oh, fun fact! We have the same VA as Roa. In Melty Blood and Carnival Phantasm, there is no Tsukihime anime.
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>>3642163
Saber apologists get out of my thread REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>3642195
I don't see why people seem to think killing Saber will be more satisfying than forcing her into servitude.
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>>3642195
>tfw it's no longer every day
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>>3642195
Saber will have to atone for her sins as eternal maid of Shijou family as part of her penance.
Don`t give her an easy way out.
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>>3642190

For Harris how about we call upon the greatest assholes of the Gods and have consecrate to them: is limbs, his head, his shadow, his brain, his mouth, his nose, his speech, his breath, his liver, his heart, his lungs, his intestines, his stomach, his arms, his hands, his knees, his calves, his heels, his toes. Everything that he has turning into ash, May mourning for him be measured in weeks and his death in decades. If he wants to be Kerry2 let's curse him twice as badly
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>>3642190
Yeah. His performance here is pretty much on point as what I had in mind for Alberich. At least in the calm state. He doesn't really do psycho anger in MBAACC and Alberich hasn't done much of the "it's all such a laugh" bit.
https://youtu.be/aBu4DIhy2pY
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>>3642217

Hey Sweets is Balor completely dead or is he somewhere in the IN Realm?
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>>3642234
If he does before the end of the Age of Gods, he won't be in INS. Sweets explained this for Fafnir.
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>>3642234
You wouldn't know that.
He was slain during the Age of Gods, and his corpse remained on earth. Only the living Gods could flee to their new realm at the dawn of the Age of Man.
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>>3642186
It's something you'd more expect to see in something like Tsukihime than Fate, honestly.
Fate gets plenty dark in Heavens Feel, but Tsukihime is downright edgy.
Nrvnsqr's (why oh why is it pronounced "Nero"?) all you can eat hotel buffet is darker than the Shadow going around eating people, imo.
>>3642260
But what about Stheno and Euryale? What the fuck is up with them?
They are supposed to be dead and Gods don't go to the throne.
iirc, FGOs explanation is pretty much just "dunnolol."
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>>3642278
>FGO
There's your problem.
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>>3642115
It was still Vaisset who ordered Caster to use his NP. He's not a blameless victim here.
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>>3642288
He seems a lot like a blameless victim to me anon. He just ordered his pathetic servant to use an ability to empower himself, it's not like he knew the details of the Akeldama.
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>>3642288
We should be more grateful to Vaisset.
Without his go ahead, we wouldn't exist.
And honestly, who cares about the humans who died in Akeldama? They should be grateful for getting to play such a vital role in history.
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What would happen to Shiki if they looked at our sword, I wonder.
Brain overload death?
Depends on the Shiki?
Successful cut?
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>>3642302
>And honestly, who cares about the humans who died in Akeldama? They should be grateful for getting to play such a vital role in history.
This opinion makes me want to reject my humanity, based anon
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>>3642301
>From what Caster told me, it's a ritual-based Noble Phantasm which allows him to instantaneously and surreptitiously drain the life force from a large number of people. The influx of power, he said, would allow him to win the war easily. Naturally, I had him activate it immediately.
That's what Vaisset said he knew about Akeldama in thread 1 when he ordered Caster to use it.
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>>3642326
Meh, I still feel for the dude. Let's go with tragic victim rather than blameless victim.
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>>3642302
>>3642324
Do not disrespect all those people for they are part of something much greater now. You could say that they have reached a true fulfillment which would have evaded them if they were not blessed and chosen. In a way, it is true spiritual enlightenment for them.
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>>3642331
Are you saying they should....
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>>3642355
Fill in the blanks:
_W__
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>>3642392
>*_*
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>tfw instead of teaching his kids how to fish or play baseball Judas threatens to slit one of their throats and tries to kill their girlfriends
Fuck you, dad.
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>>3642278
>But what about Stheno and Euryale? What the fuck is up with them?
>They are supposed to be dead and Gods don't go to the throne.
>iirc, FGOs explanation is pretty much just "dunnolol."
I'm going to take advantage of the excuse Nasu gave me and say this:
FGO is a different timeline where things function differently from the world of F/SN and this quest. Here, Stheno and Euryale can be neither summoned as heroic spirits nor found in the Realm of Imaginary Numbers, because they are neither human nor living.
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>>3642000
>He listens to the worst dynasty
Didn't all the pharaonic dynasties practice incestuous marriage? Ptolemy is just the most memorable name among them.
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>>3642540
Oh yeah, they were just the worst at it.
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>>3642534
Too bad, Medusa.
Maybe you shouldn't have eaten your sisters after all.
Then again maybe they shouldn't have decided to just get eaten.
I don't really know what the fuck anybody on that island was thinking.

I do hate what FGO did to the Gorgon. It's meant to be a horrifying monstrosity that terrifies even Perseus, with his shitload of Noble Phantasms.

FGO just decides "Medusa, but a monstergirl." For whatever reason. Transforming into pic related only when she uses her Noble Phantasm. I guess the power of waifus was too much to resist, even when it kind of makes no sense.
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Just a heads-up for everyone, some IRL stuff is seeming like it'll eat my evening. I may not be able to update tonight.
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>>3642797
Thanks for the heads up.
Good luck.
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>>3642797
So it happens. Hope whatever you're doing goes well.
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>>3642797
Ganbatte, Sweets.
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So, how many people do you think we can discreetly have Kōrakuhime eat?

How angry will Shirou be if we cause a train crash?

How should we deal with Harris, after we've defeated him?
I'm sure we can probably work out some eternal suffering deal now we have a Caster.
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>>3642999
None. She was right in arguing that if she's to survive off of human energy, it's going to be noticeable. Her method of consumption isn't exactly instantaneous after all. If we can't handle the energy issue in any other way, I will do my utmost to have her killed.

He'll try to kill us obviously. This *is* HF Shirou after all. But probably not too insanely ragey.

Kill him. I want the guy dead, but he hasn't irked Alberich in such a way to merit any effort in ensuring his suffering. I get the argument for doing terrible things to Saber with how she wronged Alberich, but Harris is ultimately just another foe to be slain.
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>>3643024
I mean. He DID kill our master, and that's rather irksome.
If we kill him, that means that Saber fades away again.
And that's not acceptable, that's just not acceptable.
She won't be allowed to escape that easily.
Saber must submit to our superiority, I will accept no other future.
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>>3643083

I just wanna curse Harris even worse than Kerry had gone through by Angry Manjew if we're gonna be corrupting Saber. Let everything someone could know about him be forgotten in seconds and his death measured in years upon years
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So anybody up for looking into "synthetic transmutation of the Five Great Elements" Vaisset researched? Now with proper Caster at our side it should be fruitful to invest time into it.
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For a while, the three of you travel in silence. Ayaka lies unconscious in your arms; Kōrakuhime floats on the breeze sitting, like a witch on an invisible broomstick, with an emotionless expression fixed on that doll-like face; and you leap from roof to roof, leaving footprints in shattered tiles and wondering what to say.

Frankly, you're not sure how to speak to this girl. Even knowing her identity, it's difficult to think of her as being Ogawara. Interrogating her in the house where you found her was easy enough, but having now resolved to acknowledge her as your sister, your mind seems to have gone blank. Ten or fifteen minutes elapse unnoticed as you travel, mutely pondering the dynamics of a familial relationship that neither you nor the real Yumigawa has ever experienced. Eventually, though, an idea does come to mind. The lengthy, overwrought, archaic name that she surely chose for herself isn't the kind of thing you can imagine a brother addressing his younger sister by. It's as good a topic as any to raise in the interest of getting to know your new sister better.

"Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime," you say, "seems somewhat overly formal, for family members. Is there something else you'd prefer that I call you?"

Kōrakuhime ponders the question for a moment, floating through the air beside you. As your steel boot crushes the brickwork of another chimney, you can't help but envy her ability.

"Overly formal?" She echoes your words confusedly. "I... suppose that it must seem so, given 'your'... memories. 'I' would not think it strange... however. Ogawara Yatsuhide's mother spoke to her child as Yatsuhide-sama, just as the servants did... and for 'my' father and elder brothers, 'you there' was sufficient to... address the youngest.It was not a... close family."

She trails off again, and silence returns as the two of you cross another city block. Evidently Ogawara had an unusual and wealthy childhood, but you're quite uncertain as to what Kōrakuhime expects you to say about that. Is it something to be sympathized with? Envied? Should you address it at all, considering how plainly different she is from her former self; or rather, from the source of the memories she was given? Before you can come to a decision, though, she speaks up again and cuts off your thoughts.
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"My apologies," she says, "that was not a... proper answer to your question. A more familiar name, yes?" Kōrakuhime's lips twitch up into a tiny smile as she considers the notion. "There were... many sorts of ways for an older brother to address his sister that 'I' was familiar with. Perhaps you could... play the doting obsessive and call me 'Hime-tan,' with a gleam in your eye? Conversely, there is the brusque character to consider, who... hides his brotherly affection behind a coldly uttered 'you'. Or... does the courtly style suit you better, you who took... the name of the elf-king? In that case, you might... address me matching title for title, as 'sister mine,' or 'dearest sister,' or in somesuch way. Truly, though, a pet-name should be... invented by the one to use it. If none appeals, then... Kōrakuhime is perfectly fine."

"Very interesting," you say hurriedly. "I'll think on it." You're not sure what you were expecting, but it certainly wasn't this bizarre suggestion of brotherly archetypes for you to play out. Better to change the subject while you work out how it is you want to address this newfound family member. "Earlier you mentioned change," you say. "I have remained largely the same since becoming a Servant, but I see that isn't true of yourself. How have you changed, in the time since we parted?"

"Completely," she answers. Then, after a pause, continues, "I suppose that... such a statement can hardly serve as an answer. Nor is it... completely accurate. Similarities remain; but it was... the change I have undergone you... asked about." Pressing a gloved hand flat against her chest, she begins, "the alterations to my... body are obvious, of course. With them has come the change in... diet. I used to despise raw foods, and meat especially. Sashimi and raw eggs never... touched my palate, and I have... spoken already of... the trial that was cooking with meat. That inhibition has been... quite thoroughly rooted out. I... delight in the taste of blood and the texture of meat, now... it is a pleasure difficult to describe." She trails off, staring into space and thinking of food. That she's facing you as she does so and flying backwards doesn't seem to inhibit her ability to travel.

"And is that the whole of it?" you ask hesitantly. If all of Kōrakuhime's revelations about her psyche are related to her hunting, you're not sure you want to hear more.

"Ah... do excuse me," she says apologetically, bobbing you a little bow in the air. "There is also... the matter of nature. I know, now, that... I am not Ogawara Yatsuhide; that I am a being beyond humanity, as 'I' had... always wished to be. It is so, so much easier to face the world... knowing that I am not one of those... creatures. 'My' dearest wish... to be free of the vile imperfections of human flesh... was granted, when I became Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime. I am free, now, to live beyond... human limitations, and the drudgery of the mundane world."
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>[ ] "Indeed," you say with a firm nod. "I was the same. Discovering my true nature filled me with an unparalleled sense of freedom. To be unbound by human nature is to be truly free to choose any path one cares to take in life!" (Pride)

>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)

>[ ] Still unsure of how you yourself feel regarding your inhuman nature, you shift the topic to another question. (Write in, can be a question about something she's said or something new.) (Curiosity)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)

Note: Please also tell me how you'd like Alberich to address Kōrakuhime going forward. She's provided a few examples, but feel free to write in your own pet names as well.
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Turns out I was right about my evening getting consumed. At least I managed a middle-of-the-night update.
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
It is lonely at the summit. As for how we address Kōrakuhime... I suppose simply calling her sister will do. It's not as if there's another who will answer to the title.
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>>3643776
>At least I managed a middle-of-the-night update.
My staying up actually paid off for once! Thanks.

>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
Not too shocked, I hope, what with everything that she just revealed to us.

>>3643795
>It's not as if there's another who will answer to the title.
>inb4
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>>3643800
>My staying up actually paid off for once!
Sweets almost always has a late update, what are you talking about anon?

>>It's not as if there's another who will answer to the title.
>>inb4
It cannot be
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>>3643795
>It's not as if there's another who will answer to the title.
I mean, you already know that's not true from the Liliesviel interlude.
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>>3643774

>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
I'm fine with 'Sister' or just 'Kōrakuhime'.
Anything EXCEPT 'Hime-tan', you goddamn nerd.
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
Yup.
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)

As one who "became" non-human before he knew he wasn't ever human, Rushorou should have had much more time to think it over. Not like he ever really cared much for humanity, but they had their uses. Then again, I'm sure rejecting your humanity wholly allows you to hunt them without remorse. But honestly, I do doubt that was what Judas had in mind when he provided us the memories of humans, to discard them entirely, If our existences were supposed to be defined by our superiority, then I don't believe Judas would've been so haphazard in his selection of our memories. It's possible that he wanted his "heroes", inherently superior to humanity, to understand what it is like to have been human, rather than spending the entirety of their existence never truly understanding the human heart.

Of course, fuck what Judas intended, but we should think of the reason behind his actions, as they were what created us.

Hime-tan or Kouraku-chan will suffice.
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>>3643929
Let's think back to the four sets of memories.
>Rushorou: an apathetic student council president, talented at most things he attempts, yet being fulfilled by none of it. Seems to have always had some desire to rule. Upon being greeted by his servant as master, his response was pretty much "you're god damn right". During the events of Akeldama, came to understand his emotions somewhat. Humorously, despite being non human, he's probably more "human" than his original self.

>Ogawara: Tries to dress up "I want to be the little girl." As "wanting to surpass the limitations of human flesh". A loser and a future NEET that seems to have gained the majority of his world view from god damn anime and manga. Which, while it might be (incredibly) unhealthy to emulate, is a direct product of the human mind. Probably has a major disconnect from reality now. Might need to work on that.

>Matsuda: he likes fighting people and sleeping in closets. The most distinctly human of the bunch.

>Keiseki: a man ground down to nothing by the strain and pressure of modern human society. A husk of a man. Also dead. Not much to really say.
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
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>>3643967
Ah, a thing to note on Ogawara is that he was a loser and a NEET despite his circumstances.
Obviously living a privileged life, it's likely that the revelation of her superiority as a higher lifeform has compounded upon all the feelings of privilege such memories would grant her, whilst discarding the other aspects of Ogawara.
She did feel the need to put "hime" in her name, after all.
Alberich chose his name after all the conversations with his servants that occured in Akeldama.
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>>3643772

>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
Goddamn she is still such a nerd. That style of speech drives me crazy. Just call her Korakuhime.
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>>3644127
If we come up with our own name for her, it will likely increase her affection points the most though.
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>>3644165
Or we could end up irking her.
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>>3644197
She unironically recommended "Hime-tan" and her entire name is chuuni as fuck.
It's likely going to be hard to irk her with a name. Because she herself is dreadful at coming up with them.
That being said, why not just call her "Rakuhime"? It's a slight shortening of her name and just means "Camelia Princess"
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>>3643967
>Matsuda: he likes fighting people and sleeping in closets. The most distinctly human of the bunch.
You may want to go back and read his monologue in Akeldama. There is more to Matsuda.
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>>3644224
No, thank you.
I'll just stick to "Kourakuhime".
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>>3644236
I know there is, it was a joke, boss. There's all the stuff with the Yakuza and his friend that pissed off the wrong people. I just couldn't think of a way to weave it in at the time.
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>>3643929
>I don't believe Judas would've been so haphazard in his selection of our memories.
He wasn't, by the way. All four hero candidates were chosen with care.
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>>3644250
Ah. I feel like his revelation about fighting is a rather significant aspect of his character, so just wanted to remind you folks in case it'd been forgotten.
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>>3644255
Well, that is interesting.
Hmmm.
I don't think it changes that much, in fact, it might reinforce my point.
Giving your DIY heroes memories of normality does allow them to consider things from a different angle to a Demi-God or something, who are basically not normal from day 1, and are treated accordingly. Gives you kind of a warped personality, always being different to everyone else.
Hell, Arturia also suffers this problem to the extent that it makes her kingdom explode.

I'm just saying that he wouldn't have bothered with giving us these complete sets of memories if he wanted us all to throw them out like trash.
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>>3644244
But why?
Kourakuhime is too fucking long.
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>>3644127
>That style of speech drives me crazy.
What do you mean?
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>>3644316
It feels too intimate somehow to use anything else. Using her first name is good enough for me until I feel we can trust her completely.

Don't let me stop you, though.
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>>3644331
The combination of overly formal and ellipsis heavy speech
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)
I`ll support Hime-tan as a way to address. Mostly to play enabler of her escapist tendencies.
Although dropping full chunni name from time to time might be fun. it is probably souns as bizzare to natives as Bewitching Divinity of Calamitous Death sounds to us. Our sister still lacks a proper few paragraphs long introduction written in prose though. We have to work on that later.
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>>3644334
But she couldn't possibly gain anything from trying to betray us.
She could attempt to seize control of our command spells but that would likely just end in the deaths of both of them, she should probably know how much Rushorou hated being deceived. She knows what deciding to be our enemy would entail
She can't exactly team up with anybody else.
She's also our sister.
Ogawara is the second person we ever met and in Akeldama, Rushorou was fairly kind to him. He even tried to help him with his confidence issues *despite having like a million things more important to do*
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>>3644347
I like to imagine this as her still not being naturally great at conversation, but just hiding it by taking long pauses and being mysterious, so she just has a longer time to pick her words carefully rather than trying to spew out the first word that comes to mind.
Also, she probably just thinks it's cool.
Fucking Chuuni Oni NEET.
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>>3644316
>Kourakuhime is too fucking long.
It's just three characters, anon.
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>>3644387
>Also, she probably just thinks it's cool.
Probably had entire Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime shtick already pre-planned after getting hooked on isekai LNs for a few years already.
I highly anticipate to hear names her of NPs.
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>>3644388
Yet it's still too long.
She is our sister, who happens to be terrible at naming things.
...
Oh my fuck.

Her Noble Phantasm.
It's gonna be the worlds most embarrassing thing to hear her invoke whatever it is.
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>>3644369
>Bewitching Divinity of Calamitous Death
Remember, that's the Yōjinshi part. Kōrakuhime on its own sounds more like a proper name for a mythological character or figure out of folktales.
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>>3644491
I don't think it's that long of a name, to be honest. It just looks like it is because it's a continuous string of letters.
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>>3644491
What kind of name would Kōrakuhime made for us had she the chance to do so?
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>>3644497
I still think a nickname will help us grow closer to her.
It's obvious that her preference would be Hime-tan or something of our own creation.
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>>3644561
But do you really want to act like the kind of unrepentant siscon who'd use -tan for his sister?
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>>3644585
Hmm. Now that's a good question.
Probably not when other people are around, at least
Shortening her name somewhat might work better under normal circumstances.
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>>3644585
Yes.
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>>3644585
No, never. I will not betray my ideals
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>>3644611
Would Raku-chan work?
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>>3644618
It works for me.
>>3644616
Anon, you can't just go for the Mind of Steel end on us like that.
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>>3644387
>I like to imagine this as her still not being naturally great at conversation, but just hiding it by taking long pauses and being mysterious, so she just has a longer time to pick her words carefully rather than trying to spew out the first word that comes to mind.
That's the idea, yes.

>>3644618
>Raku-chan
Don't make me think of that series, anon.
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>>3644736
Rakuhime-chan it is!
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>>3644585
Hell no. Koko-chan is worst girl.
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>>3644736
That's... I mean... what?
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>>3644777
>Tsubaki
I was going to suggest calling her Camellia if you guys insist on further shortening her name, but this works too.
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>>3644736
>I will never have a gf to screech me to sleep
This is why I live vicariously through Alberich.
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Okay, so Tsubaki-chan works?
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>>3644809
I guess.
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How about Oniko?
Sounds nice, use old Hinomoto Oniko meme Ogawara would love being essentially a "Demongirl" and not too long.
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>>3644873
Konipon?
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>>3644894
Little version probably suits better for our goal, yeah.
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>>3644873
Oniko could work.
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> "I... suppose that it must seem so, given 'your'... memories. 'I' would not think it strange
We never actually told Ogawara anything about our backstory, did we?
So Kourakuhime has likely either scryed the original Yumigawa or gone to meet him personally.
Damn it, sister.
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>>3644958
She could also saw our memories in a dream since we are connected.
But yeah probably scryed.
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>>3644967
I wonder if we can have Kourakuhime aid us in our effort to corrupt Saber.

God I really hope Truvi isn't dead.
If only for her reaction to the three new heroes.
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>>3645034
Well, she is full fledged Caster so getting her to teach us magecraft, corrupt Saber and look into Vaisset`s research notes are all pretty useful way to use her.
I do wonder however about her Emotional Status. We have Pride, Self-Preservation, Duty and Compassion but what does she has?
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>>3645034
And speaking of the three heroes, I do wonder what on Earth our younger brother is up to.
He's either in serious trouble or is kicking the shit out of the Yakuza for revenge or something.
The worst case is that he's dead, which would just be a massive cop-out.

I guess when we recruit him, he and Kourakuhime can argue amongst themselves as to who is the middle child.

>>3645065
We don't know just how much magical knowledge she has though.
It's possible she got the combined magical know-how of the hundred or so Magi, which would make her pretty fucking good at it.
Not quite Circe tier though. But that's quite obvious.
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>>3645084
Given how much Matsuda taught you about fighting in Akeldama, wouldn't it make sense for him to be your elder brother?
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>>3645084
Yeah, it is highly unlikely that she has High Speed Divine Language.
Although she could have also pulled Caster skills from Judas since they are both Casters and she has parts of his soul. We however still have no idea that Personal Skills did he have.
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>>3645100
But in mythology main hero is either the youngest or the eldest.
I honestly can`t really remember middle child being protagonist of any major story.
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>>3645112
Sounds like great fodder for sibling rivalry between you and Matsuda, since you were all technically born at the same time.
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>>3645100
Rushorou was always the one in command though. Matsuda might have taught him how to fight, but his talent in fighting shouldn't really denote him as the eldest. Rushorou is more intelligent than he is, which you could say denotes him as the elder. He was also the one that had to pretty much carry his siblings to victory (and death, sorry Keiseki.)

>>3645123
Oh I can imagine it already.
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>>3645123
He should go and try to win Grail War first.
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Konipon or Tsubaki?
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Oh no, this is starting to be like the True Name fiasco again.
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>>3645244
Tsubaki-chan.
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>>3645252
It's not nearly as important. This will
go smoothly, I'm sure of it.
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>>3645244
Konipon.
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I'm going with Konipon.
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>>3645337
>>3645344
Do we really want to refer to our sister as the meme personification of an anti-Japanese slur?
I mean, I know it's ironic because she's literally an oni, but it could be seen in poor taste.
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Why would Alberich think of an old 2chan meme?
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>>3645359
And this too.
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>>3645358
>>3645359
You got a point. Tsibaki it is.
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>>3645358
Technically it is cooped anti-Japanese slur transformed into something beautiful and representing triumph of creative mind over human imperfections and dullness.
Pretty poetic and thematically fitting.
>>3645359
We learned at the end of Truvi route in Akeldama that Rushorou did an essay about modern Chinese-Japanese cultural relathionsip and his vice-president suggested to add part about Project Hinomoto Oniko?
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>>3645408
Anon, it's a fucking meme.
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>>3645442
I honestly just feel that Tsubaki is extremely generic name to give.
But I also feel that Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime is actually good way to name yourself.
You can consider it a bad taste in names on my part if you wish so.
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>>3645464
So at least one person likes her original name. Thank you, anon.
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>>3645464
We're planning on calling her Tsubaki because of the flowers she both wears and has in her name.
I just don't think a co-opted racial slur meme is a good thing to refer to your sister as. Especially when it is blatantly OOC to even think of it.
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>>3645490
I mean.
I like it.
But god damn is it chuuni.
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btw Sweets. How was Keiseki going to turn out if we didn't kill him?
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>>3643774
>[ ] "You felt no pain at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. (Compassion)

For the name, I'm on board with either Koraku-chan or Tsubaki-chan.

>>3645490
I think it rolls off the tongue nicely, but hot damn is it long.
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>>3645490
Great name, not a great way to speak to someone in a regular and often informal manner
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>>3645490
I'm impressed by the pure concentrated amounts of weebery required to come up with it
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We should really work on Kourakuhime's resentment of humanity. Calling them "creatures" is a little too much.
Inferior? Sure, that's just factual.
Something on the same level as an animal? Not really seeing it.

This is why you shouldn't give a hikikomori demon powers.
I suppose thinking of them in such a way is helpful when it comes to eating them.

It's generally a bad idea to underestimate humans, it leads to getting your arm cut off or being eaten.
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>>3645490
I never said anything about her name.
I care.
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>>3645744
Note: Ogawara wasn't a hikikomori or a NEET, just an antisocial otaku. I mentioned him going to school in the bio at the initial character choice in FCA Part 1. Also, when you met him in Akeldama he was wearing his school uniform.
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>>3645785
A very likely future Hikki NEET then.

Man, Alberich took the revelation of his identity really well, all things considered.
Some major mental strength there.
He did have a lot of time to get used to it though, thanks to already being altered by a false grail.

Jesus this day has been busy for Ayaka.
>find out true identity of servant
>massive fight against Berserker
>meeting the Emiyas
>"It turns out it was my sister."
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>>3645816
>Some major mental strength there.
He is the ultimate lifeform after all. If Alberich couldn't handle a little identity crisis, how could he be superior to the masses of humanity or the lesser heroic spirits?

>>3645785
C'mon now sweets, such a broken chuuni otaku has essentially no chance at not being a Hikikomori

>>3645744
I agree wholeheartedly. She's essentially insulting our Ayaka if you think about it. That's an unacceptable slight to Alberich.
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>>3645918
>she's essentially insulting our Ayaka
Yeah, our Sister needs to cool off with her hatred of humanity. Then again, magi aren't really normal humans, either, by their very nature.
Hopefully she can gain some humanity by having her sibling(s) nearby to interact with. Instead of just spending the majority of her time spying on her elder brother like he's some anime protagonist and eating people.

Also, if Judas was summoned because of Ayaka and her talent with sacrificial magic, that technically means we have her to thank for indirectly allowing us to exist.
Not all humans are trash, as annoying as their motivations might be for us, the Emiyas are living proof of this.

Most mundanes however, will never amount to anything.
Humanity is mostly trash currently, except for a tiny minority.

Hmm.

I wonder, if we locate Kikuko, would she have any lingering remnants of Circe's mind altering magic that Ayaka could track...?
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>>3645971
>Then again, magi aren't really normal humans, either, by their very nature.
Now if only most magi didn't border on discarding their humanity in comparison...
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>>3645971
>Instead of just spending the majority of her time spying on her elder brother like he's some anime protagonist and eating people.
You now realize that Kōrakuhime has, from what we can tell, spent all of her newfound servanthood binging an irl action anime and snacking incessantly.
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>>3646004
It's what Ogawara knew; the field he excelled in.
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>>3646014
It's amazing how well you can keep characters acting IC even in the worst of times
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>>3646022
Thanks! I'm doing my best.
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>>3646022
>Instead of asking for his help at any time, she's just been using her nigh unparalleled mastery of magic for watching her brother doing cool shit and getting everyone's attention
God damn it. What even was her end game?

I bet she really enjoys the parts where we meditate or used mental communication.
We should ask her what her favourite scene was.
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>>3646099
>When you realize that rather than occuring in Alberich's mind, all the discussion of VAs and OPs and EDs was actually occurring in Kōrakuhime's head this whole time.
What is her endgame indeed
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>>3646134
I don't think she really understands how much shit her means of feeding has gotten us both into.
I think unless she reveals that she's capable of taking out a servant while running on fumes, her endgame was "being killed".
Don't go around repeating the same method every single night like a fucking serial killer god damn it. Are you trying to make a fucking statement?
At least gather enough energy at once so that you don't continually need to feed every night.

Damn it, this is simple stuff here. How can she possibly consider her means of survival as sustainable?
Our sister appears to be a massively short-sighted idiot.
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>>3646260
>Rich/sheltered upbringing
>Only interacted with the world through fiction
>Spent the whole Akeldama cooking, eating, and reading stuff on the internet
It'd be pretty strange for Kōrakuhime to be a very effective planner.
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>>3646337
Guess it's up to us to guide her hips towards more productive endeavors.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
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>>3646337
Alberich's back is going to break from the effort of carrying his siblings.
AGAIN.
Useless Oni.
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>>3646337
Hopefully she brings something of significant value to the table
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>>3646543
What, other than her adorable looks and winning personality?
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>>3646543
Scrying is significant on it's own.
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>>3646612
>1) an idiot
This one, please.
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>>3646543
She's still a Caster, one powerful enough to scry.
She can instantly set an entire house on fire with a single slip of paper and a word, too. She's doing this when running very low on mana as well, keep in mind.
Also, Oni (if she actually is one) tend to not actually be fragile in physical encounters, so it would make a diffrrence from the average Caster, who are about as durable as a bag of chips.
She's just... not very wise.
Or smart, really.
We'll have to see how much she's playing up the chuuni to look impressive to her elder brother and how much she does actually hate humanity.
If she was so unfeeling and hateful towards them, I don't see why she wouldn't just use a Leyline.
Other than her absolutely awful ability to plan ahead.
She's either
1) an idiot
2) a sadist
Or
3) not as evil as she's trying to appear
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>>3646642
>delete post to fix typo
>decide to add new section
>make another typo
End my life.
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>>3646652
And you just dedicated post 1000 to self-recrimination.
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>>3646642
She's an evil idiotic sadist so far
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>>3646661
A perfect ode to thread Kōrakuhime
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>>3646680
Well, you can't pick your family.

I can't believe that "man with sense of morality he cobbled together in like two weeks with the help of Hitler and Circe" is going to have to tell "girl who's sense of morality comes from fiction" that sometimes, eating people and then burning down their house for like 5 days straight is both morally AND strategically a poor choice.
She's NOT the main character she might think she is now, the world won't twist itself in knots to give her what she wants like some low quality isekai light novel. If she continues acting foolish, she will die.
I mean, even her elder brother can't protect her from everything...
Yet.

Besides, who gets superpowers and the very first thing they do is fall into a repetitive cycle?

Useless Oni.
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>Everyone bullying the shit outta poor Kōrakuhime.
Just like an older brother should, good job boys.
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>>3646889
It is our sacred duty as the older brother to do so. Her actions have brought trouble upon our family.
Also if we do go with the Einzbern route, Lily would actually be our older sister.
Funny how it works out like that.
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>>3642564
I can gladly explain that the Gorgon you summon is about to become that. Remember that huge monster is on the line of a Beast which is uncontrollable. Hell the Gorgon you get should be nigh uncontrollable.
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Almost caught up with the quest (just finished Akeldama) and I'm really diggin' the quest Sweets. Pic related.

Here to hoping for that mystical moment where Circe and Hitler aren't just waifus made along the way. They genuinely love us, and are currently in the process of creating a Fourth Rei- I mean, unified KINGDOM of EUROPE for us to go to once this all blows over.
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>>3647058
Hey, great! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
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>>3647058
Oh boy, can't wait for you to sift through all the naming.
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>>3647110
I thought I was done already. Two threads in Akeldama with no resolution, and the first of this one? I'm liking Alberich, though I must admit being named after a DWARF of all things wasn't to my liking. However, it does roll of the tongue and suits our goals. NPs also seem to have the right amount of respect for our old servants, too.
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>>3647177
>As one of the early and often shills of Alberich, it's good to see archive-readers approve
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"Did you truly feel nothing but happiness at the revelation of your nature?" You ask, shocked. Learning that you had never been human had confirmed your superiority, yes, but the knowledge had come also with an understanding of the opportunity lost with that superiority. You are, after all, cut off from fellowship of billions whom you'd once taken for granted as members of the same species. Even that had come after the trials of your experience in Judas' Akeldama, and the dehumanizing effects of battling magi alongside Servants. How shocking would it have been to have learned of your nature after acting wholly as a human, as Ogawara had?

As you look at the figure of your sister beside you, gliding through the night sky with black hair streaming out behind her and horns gleaming in the moonlight, however, the point of just how outwardly inhuman Kōrakuhime appears is driven home to you. Perhaps that reflects her inner feelings towards her nature, for she betrays no hint of that sense of loss to which you allude. Instead, she lets out a quiet, scornful laugh.

"It's shocking," she says, still pausing between her words, "to hear... such a question from you, Ani-ue. Did you not... lose your own humanity in pursuit of power while you were the... Master of Caster? Even then, you had outwardly become... something more. I envied you then, to be able to escape the shackles of... human kinship. Now, there is no need for that envy. We two are both part of a superior... family of beings; spirits, outside of and above the human race."

"But did you not feel some sense of loss," you ask, your mouth working almost automatically now as your brain focuses on the strangeness of it all. Someone created as you were should surely have felt, as you did, that doubled emotion of gain and loss, of superiority and loneliness. How can it be that Kōrakuhime doesn't share it? "To become suddenly not yourself, but a new being whose memories are those of another, outside the common weave of mankind; how can that have been a moment of joy?"

"How can the moment have been anything but joyous?" Kōrakuhime snaps back, uncharacteristically quickly. She sighs, then, and returns her speaking pace to its normal gradual flow. "There was never a... moment in 'my' life when 'I' was... happy to be human, Ani-ue. 'I' had always, in every memory that I can remember, wanted to escape 'my' identity, 'my humanity, and... the company of those who were 'my' fellows. Such a future was... and still remains, impossible for Ogawara Yatsuhide... but I am not 'myself'. I was born with 'my' wish granted, and if the price to be... paid for that happiness is to have the memories of another... it is a very cheap bargain indeed."
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Your mind is unsteady. Perhaps it's the strain of too many revelations in one day, but everything feels too strange to be understood. Kōrakuhime's eagerness to accept her humanity and the ease which that afforded her in preparing her monstrous repasts are bizarre, but perhaps stranger still is your own reaction. Kōrakuhime speaks of her motivations springing from the source of her memories, Ogawara Yatsuhide, but if one's character can come from such a place you should surely not be shocked by her lack of empathy for humanity. Yumigawa Rushorou, after all, never felt the faintest shred of empathy or human connection to any person but his mother and father, the blood relations who gave him life. To that detatched mind, all other humans were only puppets to be moved around that the ideal path to his future might be prepared.

Yet this outlook doesn't seem to describe your own. In the Akeldama, you repeatedly put yourself in danger or sacrificed a tactical advantage to save one of your compatriots, or even a complete stranger. You felt your heart stir in reaction to the charms of Circe and Adelheid, and at other times even those of Kikuko or Truvietianne. Where did such human emotions spring from, if the cold mind of Yumigawa Rushorou lacked them while your own nature as Alberich is that of a fundamentally inhuman being? Could they have been implanted by Judas to make you more heroic? Conversely, were they the product of a subconscious rebellion against the memories of a person not yourself? The more you turn the question over in your mind, the more mysterious it seems to become. Fortunately, something happens just then which relieves you of the need to work your way through the subject and formulate a response to Kōrakuhime: you arrive at the Shijou Manor.

"Here we are," you say, landing in the garden with a heavy thud. "It isn't the Eighth Imperial University, but I'm sure the furnishings are at the least finer than what you've been used to these past few days. Follow me inside and make yourself at home."

"I'm sure... it is a lovely home," Kōrakuhime softly replies. Unfortunately you find yourself unable to immediately demonstrate the house's hospitality, as you realize the front door is locked. After several seconds of awkwardly feeling around in Ayaka's pockets for her keys (weathering Kōrakuhime's raised eyebrow as you do so), however, you're able to get the door open and enter. As you walk into the front hall, the drowsiness seems to hit you all at once. It's just after three, you realize, and today has been anything but easy. The idea flashes through your mind that perhaps you should be getting further information out of your newfound sister before leaving her to sleep unsupervised in your home, but at the moment finding a nice, soft bed seems far wiser.

Kōrakuhime shares your sentiment, it seems. Rather than a comment on the house, the first words out of her mouth are, "where might I... find the bedrooms, Ani-ue?"
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"Upstairs," you answer, "and I need to be taking Miss Ayaka to hers. Good night," colorful blossoms waver before your drowsy eyes, and the word falls from your mouth, "Tsubaki."

Then you turn and retreat upstairs, and in no time you've carried Ayaka to her room and laid her on the bed. The girl is still sleeping soundly, having apparently passed from faint to slumber at some point during the journey back to her home. For a moment you consider leaving her there, but you're still conscious enough to be worried about her safety with a new Servant in the house; even if that Servant is your sister. You pull up Ayaka's desk chair up to her bedside and ease into that, soon falling asleep seated protectively by your Master's side.

Your dreams tonight are not visions from the life of a child. Nor are they the confused meanderings of ordinary human sleep.

Tonight you dream of a blackboard, and of your sister. You find yourself in a deserted classroom after school, with the orange light of sunset streaming in through westward-facing windows.

You're in a school uniform, though it isn't one belonging to Kyoutenkan Academy. The classroom, similarly, isn't one you recognize. It's more old-fashioned, with everything around you looking like an antique that could date back to the Taisho Era.

You're the only student in the empty classroom, but your sister, Kōrakuhime, is at the blackboard. She's exchanged her furisode for a teacher's outfit, and is lecturing you animatedly on the subject of her own abilities, and how they might be of use.

As is the way of dreams, unfortunately, the detailed explanations she gives will soon fade, and you'll be left with nothing but vague recollections. As the sun dips below the horizon, Kōrakuhime's lecture comes to an end.


Status Updated
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November 18, Monday

You awaken with a start to the sight of sunlight coming in through Ayaka's window and the sound of early-morning birdsong. It's just after six in the morning, and it feels like three hours of sleep was quite sufficient for you. Beside you, Ayaka remains fast asleep in her bed. Whether the same is true of Kōrakuhime, you can't say. Sitting in the pale morning light, you consider your priorities for the day. After some thinking, you conclude that...

>[ ] You'll have to return to the Emiya family and discuss how to defeat Berserker. (Duty)

>[ ] After last night, you're not sure the benefits of fighting alongside the Emiyas outweigh the risks. With Kōrakuhime's help, perhaps you can contact Liliesviel von Einzbern today. (Self-Preservation)

>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)

>[ ] Something else (Write in)
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>>3647353
>[ ] After last night, you're not sure the benefits of fighting alongside the Emiyas outweigh the risks. With Kōrakuhime's help, perhaps you can contact Liliesviel von Einzbern today. (Self-Preservation)
Well, she's rather annoyingly overpowered.
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>Sex: 検閲
Kek.

>>3647353
>[ ] After last night, you're not sure the benefits of fighting alongside the Emiyas outweigh the risks. With Kōrakuhime's help, perhaps you can contact Liliesviel von Einzbern today. (Self-Preservation)
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>>3647364
How do you figure that?
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>>3647371
Her physical stats are garbage yet she has a skill that can temporarily change that, pretty much nullifying the weakness
She gets A++ Luck and A+ Mana as well as an A+ rank and a B rank NP.
Golden Rule is a useless skill in most scenarios and she hasn't bothered with it regardless.

She's got 5 things ranked at A as well as a skill that both temporarily counters her terrible physical stats and is also a higher ranked mixed version of Charisma.
Alberich by comparison had 1 thing ranked at A after his exit from Akeldama. Nevermind A+ or A++
And he already had that.

Just seems kinda odd that we get to start with the statline of a fairly mediocre Saber, who didn't even get Riding above E because he's never ridden anything, while she has the statline of a pretty top-tier Caster with As in every relevant stat, despite never having used magic once in her life.
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>>3647386
She has Bs in the actual Caster skills, though. As for her other stats, do remember that Servant stats change based on mana supply. So far she's been eating quite a nutritious diet.
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>>3647391
This is me.
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>>3647391
Luck and Mana shouldn't increase.
Nor should the ranks of her NPs.
Or her personal skills.
And she's been quite malnourished if she's felt the need to eat people every night.

B rank territory creation and B rank item creation are still pretty great, and honestly Circe with them both ranked A and A+ wasn't ever really a game changer with them.
We had Proto-Kenotis which was only used once.
One time Archer and his Master just rolled through territory creation like it was nothing.
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>>3647392
Oh so you're saying that all our stats will just go mental should we start sacrificing people, too?
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>>3647391
Combat-wise, she does looks pretty strong considering her Witchcraft
>can scry
>can manipulate the five elements
>can throw papers that can burn an entire house
>can sic shikigamis at people

>>3647399
Sacrifice is kinda how we power up so far, so yeah.
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>>3647404
Yeah but we've sacrificed a servant.
She's been sacrificing small groups of prople.
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>>3647353

Hmmmm, I don't think that going to find Lily would prove to be a good idea. Can't stretch things too thin for the moment, so I think the best option would be to do some contemplation. Talk to Judas finally about shit and learn some more ways to fully empower ourselves and maybe unlock something new to make use of

>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
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>>3647408
I'm now strongly considering properly advocating crashing a train to share the energy with Caster.
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>>3647353
>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)

We're sadly a bit lacking apparently, let's fix that sooner than later. Being strong lets us kill servants, killing servants lets us kill nastier servants like berserker and not die against wholly unfair opponents. like Saber.
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>>3647364
>>3647353

Switching to
>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)

Who's ready to go crash a train?
That's a lot of free energy and some powerups.
We could organise it so that a tunnel collapses both in front of and behind the train, no escape.
Then when we're done, collapse the rest of the tunnel on top of it.
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>>3647369
Actually, some interlude would do us good. Get to know our sister better and get some exposition from Judas.

Switching to
[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
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>>3647416
Only If we get to be the one driving the train. Getting our Riding skill up Is Important!

It's probably a bad idea. Decent chance we'll get caught, and/or have some serious heat brought down on the war to keep the servants In line.
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>>3647423
Who cares at this point?
If our Caster somehow has managed to get pretty broken stats by taking the energy of a few people every night, then a train containing like a thousand people should be a sure victory.

I'm not sure how she's managed this considering Medea was both siphoning the leyline and going around stealing energy from large groups of people.
But ok.
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>>3647353
Hey Sweets just a question for my curiosity.

Since we were offered Lancer Assassin and Archer as choices outside of Saber, sis Is a Caster and Matsuda's got to be a Berserker, was Keiseki going to be a Rider class servant had he lived?
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>>3647429
It's because we're living servants. We can still grow, while other casters simply tack on raw stats using acquired magical energy to boost their parameters. Because our Caster Is a living servant like us, she breaks the rules on how she can empower herself.

Now, I kind of doubt Ayaka would be okay with killing hundreds of people. Even If we're okay with the idea, the attention and the death Is something I doubt she'd accept.
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>>3647441
>Because our Caster Is a living servant like us, she breaks the rules on how she can empower herself
Caster with Family Dinner: 'I am growing stronger'
Is it really as simple as munching on families as midnight snacks? Does her mystery A+ ritual also plays into this? It's derived from Akeldama, after all.
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>>3647353
>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
Before we go looking for more allies, we need to gain leverage and become powerful enough to ensure that attacking us on sight would put other's at a severe disadvantage.
Besides we could always find Lily later tonight.
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>>3647429
I hope Conceptual Biology EX is actually worth it.
I also hope this can be used to upgrade Heilig to A+ or A++
EX sword is probably only happening if we bring the Gods back truly.
Maybe EotM and our parameters.
Our next fight with Saber should revert her to her natural inclination to job.
Fuck the mundanes.
Time for Akeldama 2: train boogaloo.
>>3647441
Caster can literally just remotely cast a sleep spell on her though.
It's that fucking Akeldama based Ritual NP she's got that gives us this great opportunity.
Bloodfort Andromeda? Pfft.
Small time.
>>3647443
It is a bit bizzare that all she's had to do is kill a few people.
She really IS stupid.
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>>3647353
>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
I wonder if we can get up to B or A rank magic if we focus on it for today
With all these books and two exceptional tutors we should get somewhere
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It's funny.
Rushorou before Akeldama was a boy totally incapable of feeling a connection to humans, merely manipulating them into doing as he willed. Among his 3 siblings he lived the most average life, however his personality was easily the most twisted.
But upon losing everything that makes him human, he feels kinship to humanity, protecting them when they didn't have the means to protect themselves.
Kourakuhime was actually a major beneficiary of Rushorou's fundamental change, she would do well to remember that sometimes, showing humanity is a good thing.
Pleasure derived from the memories and wishes of another is simply a delusion.

Kourakuhime is a fool for being so quick to throw something so essential to our creation away.
Casting aside your previous life apart from the pieces that appeal to your new way of thinking?
That's just ridiculous.

Ogawara, with his privileged life and secured future "was never happy"? Rushorou had never even felt true emotion before his time in Akeldama.
Ogawara could derive enjoyment from his hobbies, while such a thing was utterly impossible for Rushorou.

Useless Oni.

Also I don't get why all of Rushorou's skills are based on his accomplishments within Akeldama and Ogawara basically just got free shit.
We didn't even get decent Riding.
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>>3647353
>[ ] After last night, you're not sure the benefits of fighting alongside the Emiyas outweigh the risks. With Kōrakuhime's help, perhaps you can contact Liliesviel von Einzbern today. (Self-Preservation)

>sit at a computer all day during Akeldama
>get absolutely broken skills and NPs
u wot m8
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>>3647520
There's either something wrong with the energy distribution back in Akeldama, or that ritual NP of her is very potent.
Fucking casters.
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>>3647525
She's fortunate that she accepted our decision to be siblings otherwise I would have no issue with immediately murdering her.

The most baffling thing is the A++ rank luck.
For what purpose?
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>>3647525
inb4 he played a mmorpg the whole time and basically became his character when empowered
that's the only way I can picture him having "achieved" anything worth deriving those skills and NPs from
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>>3647537
The most confusing aspect is why she suddenly gets to be an oni.
I think I'd be less annoyed if we ourselves weren't immediately nerfed out of our A rank agility and B rank EotM moments after first getting our stats.
If it is the effects of her A+ rank NP (why does she get a B and A+ rank NP for doing nothing, while we started with 2 Cs, and even after upgrading our sword to be ultra bullshit it's still only A?)
Then it's fucking broken and we'll be taking full advantage of it.

It's possible that it stems from your wishes, but Rushorou should have a far higher rank in Charisma were that the case.

I think a chat with "Dad" is long since overdue.
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>>3647544
Conceptual Biology EX better be bullshit now that we're stuck with it and didn't get some actual bullshit skill like a dragon core.
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>>3647557
If A rank of is just "you can't get poisoned lol" then I can't imagine it's worth upgrading
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Shouldn't Matsuda and Tsubaki have the conceptual being skill too? My understanding is that we were already a conceptual being when we were created and we just thought we became one when the silver grail chewed us up and spit us out.
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>>3647566
It's also the skill which we derive our B rank magic resistance and physical abilities from.
Immunity to poison and the like is more a side effect, rather than the intended feature.
It's the skill that allowed us to be a superhuman in Akeldama.
It's
It becoming EX could have any number of effects.
Increased magic resistance
Increase to all parameters except Luck
Increased defence to abilities like mystic eyes.
Etc.
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>>3647577
What if we applied someone's divinity skill to it via sacrifice?
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>>3647578
The actual gods might not be too happy.
Tsubaki here has somehow gained divinity, though.
why the fuck does Tsubaki get A++ luck though? That's higher than us, Circe, an Ex Goddess and Perseus, the son of Zues and a guy who basically leaks divine favour.
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>>3647583
>Zues
Zeus.
Fuck.
Judas man what the fuck.
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>>3647583
I think maybe Sweets just really likes traps
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>>3647578
No idea, but it sounds like it could have a lot of synergy with our sword.
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>>3647588
It is kind of irritating that "do nothing" has netted Ogawara such a ridiculous skillset and Rushorou despite doing everything is pretty mediocre.
Even our sword is only A-rank AND GETS NO SOLD BY EVERYONE.
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I say we try to upgrade conceptual biology to EX next.
It's a gamble, but it's got a lot of potential benefits.
We'll become an equal to True Saber should it increase our parameters and resistance.
And Harris is fucked beyond belief against Tsubaki.
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>>3647353
>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
>When Kōrakuhime *is* a fucking isekai protag
Fucking traps and envy-worthy statlines. At least we have magic resistance so we can kill her whenever we please.

>Neutral Evil
How so? Ogawara did nothing to bring about this fact. Was he really that crazy? Or is this simply the power of that Oni blood? Figures Judas would display favoritism for the caster of the bunch.
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>>3647496
>Reject your humanity
>Get free real estate
It's simple anon
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>>3647583
>Do nothing
>Be "born" into insanely rich family, which allows you to do nothing
>Be actually born
>Get carried through the death war by your far superior brother, while still doing nothing
>Be born into the world
>Get all this free shit and divinity and be an oni and get to be carried by your brother AGAIN
I think that merits a pretty good luck stat desu
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>>3647667
Does it though?
>do nothing
>be born as 2/3s God
>destined to rule entire world
>own everything
>Luck: A
Gilgamesh
The circumstances of her creation shouldn't reallly factor into her luck.
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>>3647678
I'm just saying if anything on her statline merits a high ranking, it's luck. Since she's done jack else
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>>3647679
Her entire existence is kind of the very opposite of Rushorou and it's kind of pissing me off, ngl.
Free shit for absolutely nothing.
She didn't even try yet basically everything she got for doing nothing was superior to the things we achieved through our own effort.

She lost her humanity whereas we actually gained humanity.
She lived an effortless life even before Akeldama whereas Rushorou actually had to try his best in every endeavour.

As the Ultimate Lifeform I'm not sure we can continue to tolerate her current existence.
A false goddess in addition to her other crimes means her existence is heresy too.
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>>3647686
>it's kind of pissing me off
Chill man, it's just the world desperately standing against Alberich's might.

>As the Ultimate Lifeform I'm not sure we can continue to tolerate her current existence.
As the one who argued earlier for "we control her or she goes", these stats only reinforce that opinion of mine. It's one thing to have a shitty extra caster roaming around eating people, it's entirely different for a psuedo-goddess oni super-witch with a divination book and an A+ derivative of Akeldama to be out and about.
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>>3647691
Yeah, it's a shame how she's somehow become so evil.
Whatever, we've already killed a brother and our father. What's an extra sibling to that count?

I can't believe we're going to have to attempt to make our sister care about humanity.
Hopefully Ayaka can make a good impression on this idiot sister of ours.
I'd hate to actually have to side with the Emiyas for real, but we can't exactly let somebody who outright disdains and preys upon the people we intend to rule over exist.
God damn though, can you imagine the Emiya's reactions to being told the truth?

>"Basically I'm one of 3 artificial spirits born from the usage of Caster's Noble Phantasm, all of my memories of being a highschooler don't belong to me, and my sister, also created by Caster, has become a monster that despises humanity due to a mixture of her new nature as an Oni and her memories, so I've got no choice but to kill her."
Heavens Feel 2: The Suffering Continues.
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>>3647705
I like how Caster's stats mean that either Matsuda got REALLY shafted or Alberich got shafted.
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>>3647710
I think it might be Judas purposely shafting us for being so disobedient and not killing our waifus.
Actually, it's funny.
Medusa would probably be the best person to have talk to Kourakuhime about why being a monster is actually terrible.
Sakura too, kind of.

Unlikely to happen unless a lot of different conditions align though.
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>>3647715
Oh, that makes me think. Since Kōrakuhime is the "Caster of Imaginary Numbers", does that make us the Imaginary Family? ngl moreso than the stats her stealing Alberich's title does it to me
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>>3647715
Do we really need to call the Emiya's in for a intervention here? Show her how great humans are? Humans are friends, not food.
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>>3647720
>"As your older brother, I'm very disappointed in you Tsubaki. I'm sending you to boarding school."
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>>3647353
>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
Cute dream.
>Luck: A++
Nice.
>Witchcraft: A
Perfect for whatever Vaisset was researching.

I can honestly see from where Kōrakuhime is coming from with her anti-human mindset. But her current outlook is just traiding one set of chains for the other. For all the good it did to her to accept who she it is also blinded her about rest of the world. Unless you add cool head and more enlightenmented outlook you are still pretty much slave to your own nature. Alberich is much closer to understanding it and we should gently push her into understanding it too for her own good. Since Ogawara`s memories essentially twisted her perception of values of Compassion for which she more or less is looking in us now.
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>>3647720
I'm talking if convincing her that humanity shouldn't be rejected fails and it becomes a Dark Sakura 2 situation, but without any chance to save her.

Honestly, if we can somehow have the Emiyas not attempt to kill her on sight, they are her best bet at coming to terms with her nature.
And if not, and we decide that she needs to die, we can rip Shirou's heart to shreds almost as badly as Gae Bolg did by telling him the truth of our existence.
In fact, there's not a single member of the Emiya faction who wouldn't be affected at a deeply personal level by at least one part of it, if it comes to having to kill her.
>>3647737
Her anti-human mindset is short sighted and foolish. Alberich understands now that he is above humanity, but he doesn't hate them or consider them lesser for it, in fact, the steps he took to protect some humans in Akeldama show that hes has become more caring for humanity. Not like Kourakuhime, who is just another wish gone wrong.
It hasn't done her any good "accepting" who she is. Because what she's becoming is a monster.
There's a reason Judas gave us the memories of humans. It truly couldn't be that he intended for us to become human hating monsters.
If that was the goal, why would he have have intended us to spend our first weeks of life as normal humans?
Alberich had become more than human during Akeldama, that's true enough. But he still considered himself a human, just a changed one.
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>not given a chance to speak to Judas before bed
wtf sweets
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>>3647769
>Got our ass kicked by berserker + a bunch of running and extensive magic usage
Alberich is tuckered out man
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>>3647437
Not necessarily. The classes offered to you were based on your qualifications at the end of the war. If things had developed differently, the classes would've been different.
Keiseki would have been an Archer, Caster, or Assassin.
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>>3647764
>Her anti-human mindset is short sighted and foolish.
And I am completely agree with this. It is after all the most notorious flaw in every such minded character.
It is however a thing born out of mind of resentful shafted otaku whom probably had varying degree of misanthropy and depression. With being a Oni Caster is being a first shine beacon in forever and source of new found pride and dignity. If we try to brute force some Compassion in it will only trigger defence reaction. It will be much smarter to take a different approach and use soft force on a still weak mind of a new desperate existence.
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>>3647764
He chose four different backgrounds specifically. I'm sure he knew that Ogawara would be misanthropic.
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>>3647802
All of the backgrounds had degrees of misanthropy to them
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>>3647802
This. His planned heroes were based on an apathetic honor student, a delinquent, a shut-in, and a (dead) salaryman. I doubt he wants all of us to develop the same personality.
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>>3647802
But why? Why would he have intended for this to have happened?
The story of Alberich and his siblings is a tragic one indeed.

I'd rather we teach Tsubaki that humans aren't loathsome than kill her. But Alberich and Ayaka will have to try their best to convince her.
God damn it, this family is such a bundle of problems.
I wish Circe were here.
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>>3647588
Oh, fuck off with that.

>>3647599
"Ridiculous skillset"
Let's get into this for a moment. Divinity and Golden Rule are essentially placeholder skills, pats on the head that actually do nothing (except make you vulnerable to special attacks for divinity). Witchcraft is a quantified of her actual magical ability, and is at a lower or equal rank compared the only other Servants with the Witchcraft skill. Even Mephistopheles has it at A, and he's an explicitly fake hero with a fictional name. Never mind Tamamo's EX. It's the equivalent of a Saber with "Swordfighting: A". Youd have that if it were in the skill system, but it isn't. So the only skill that isn't either useless or just making up the basic components of her class is Demonic Nature of Oni, and that's a physical-power-based skill which is extremely mana-hungry. On a Servant with no reliable mana source and across-the-board E-Rank physical parameters. Alberich could've killed her before he ever powered up from Rider.
As for her stats, the only thing she has going for her are magical energy and luck. How did you expect a stray Servant with no independent action skill to stay manifested on a human diet if not by having an extremely high ME stat? The parameter measures efficiency, as I've said before; and it's basically de rigeur for a Caster. As for her Luck, it's a measure of fortune from the gods. She's luckier than you, and that's the end of it. Considering how she got through Akeldama, I should think that'd be obvious. Can you tell me just how it is that you think that luck makes her OP? How specifically she can use it?
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>>3647817
She was really only lucky is one regard, and that was just being found by us in the beginning. After that nothing good or bad really happened to her.
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>>3647817
I just think that A++ is extraordinarily high.
Considering Perseus (why doesn't he have divinity on his stat sheet? He's a son of Zeus.) Was only given A+, and he has an assload of divine favour.
Hell, if she was so lucky, why was it Rushorou who ended up with the coins? Her survival after that point rested solely on his whims.
Unless Truvi and Matsuda also have A++ luck.
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>>3647817
To be fair you were kind of asking for at least one trap joke with that 検閲.
And I think that anons just a bit envious to a big list of cool sounding skills. Even if overall she is worse than most of canonical Castrers. Unless those NPs are godly.
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Man, oh man. Write a stat sheet late at night and a rant justifying first thing on waking up. You can tell how pissed off I was by the number of typos.
Anyway, as with Alberich there are a couple of things that I'll admit are too highly-ranked. Luck can drop to A+ (although I still find the idea of a character carried by her A++ rank luck amusing) and the NP should properly be the same rank as Heiligöffnungschwert.

>>3647843
It's the accusation of favoritism that really made me angry. And as for the cool-sounding skills, that's practically the central theme of the Servant. This is the Servant derived from the chuuni Ogawara. My starting idea was "A character with a long list of cool-sounding powers and traits who nonetheless isn't actually that powerful."
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>>3647719
[Class] of Imaginary Numbers is supposed to be the title for you three siblings, yes. In the same way that the Servants from Fate/City Akeldama are now Akeldama [Class].
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>>3647865
>character carried by their luck
>dies immediately
So this is the power of EX rank luck...?
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>>3647865
>although I still find the idea of a character carried by her A++ rank luck amusing
I was under impression it was so high as a joke about us and our reaction to our chuuni little sister.
Like in that Fate quest from 2012 Odysseus having F in Luck.
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>>3647817
Kōrakuhime's personal skills left me personally bewildered because they are a clear step away from the established precedent of "display it in the Akeldama, and it will be empowered to fill out your profile". She displayed essentially nothing, yet has a filled out (if fluffy) array of class skills, personal skills, Noble Phantasms, and non-physical stats.

For all the posting about it, it's not really a problem though. My apologies if my hasty reactions pissed you off Sweets.

>>3647872
Neat!
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>>3647874
Nothing about her abilities makes any goddamn sense. Drake is so BS that I almost dropped Extra then and there on discovering the complete intel for Shinji's Servant.
Nothing about her really correlates to the original figure, and they massively overhype him. It's like they rolled Blackbeard, Admiral Nelson, and Christopher Columbus into one Servant (with the body of Anne Bonny) and called that "Francis Drake".
All of FGO's shit, and to me they still haven't managed to surpass the travesty that was Servant Francis Drake.
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>>3647896
Thanks for the apology, anon. No need, though. I'm just trying to square my idea of the character with the impression people have gotten.
Regarding the display of skills, you're right. It was easy to write a Servant based off of Rushorou's displayed abilities because he was already becoming Servant-like in Akeldama, but that wasn't so for Ogawara. Instead I went for a more direct "manifestation of internal character/ideals" approach, which I couldn't have taken with Yumigawa.
What this means in terms of lore is that Yumigawa was largely defined by his actions, and so those were what manifested in his becoming a Servant; while Ogawara was largely defined by his internal life, so that was what manifested when becoming a Servant. The Akeldama ritual focuses on the most powerful aspect of a person's character when shaping their nature as a Servant.
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>>3647897
Extra is a trainwreck.
Fuck the Moon-Cell.
The Nasuverse is best when it's modern fantasy, not "big omnipotent moon computer sci-fi, fuck established canon"
Fuck imperial privilege too.
Extra was a mistake.
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>>3647915
I see, that does make sense. I might also add that thread's reaction is due to the fact that up until now we've been pretty used to Servants having stats and skills that make sense relative to their stature. Being so good about minimizing extravagant A-ranks and skills (unlike a certain gacha) means that when you have a character that seems like they belong in FGO be born into a universe faithfully built on F/SN, said character seems quite.... extraordinary.
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>a character that seems like they belong in FGO
orz
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>>3647927
Are you telling this entire civilization must be purged?
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>>3647915
So she's a Caster more focused on utility/support but isn't 100 percent guaranteed death if they get into a fight like Shakespeare or Hans (who is actually in constant agony) who can't actually fight at all?

Useful, I suppose.
But she's no Medea or Circe.

I miss Circe.
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Anyway.
I still think opening the mystery box and getting Conceptual Biology A++/EX would be interesting.
It's kind of the root of Alberich's power and has been for almost his entire life.
It turned him from a human physically to a low powered superhuman, and massively increased his magical potential too.
Also it's why we've got B magic resistance.
Now there might be nothing to fear from our sister's magic, at least towards us, being able to resist a command spell is always useful.
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>>3648026
>Conceptual Biology EX
Still less of a concern than Magical Energy or the Physical Parameters for me
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>>3648027
Yes, but what I'm saying is that it might further increase our Magical Energy and physical parameters, as it did when we first got it.
It might also raise our Magic Resistance, which gives you a pretty solid defence against most stuff. Even letting you resist a command spell.
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>>3648034
I don't really see it upgrading Alberich's physical abilities or magic. I think it will 10000% solidify his conceptual nature, acting as a psuedo-divinity and making him essentially immune to indirect sources of harm. Which is all really cool, but won't stop us from getting our head ripped off by Berserker.
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>>3647956
How can you even consider that? There's got to be some other way.
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>>3648039
Hmm
>A body radically altered by the empowerment of the Silver Grail and Akeldama. In addition to functioning physically on a level far beyond that of a human, numerous changes to Saber's internal workings have occurred. Conceptually, he is a Servant despite not being a Heroic Spirit; a living existence empowered to fill the class container, rather than a dead one constrained by it. As a partial consequence of this contradictory existence, the consumption of enchanted food, potions, inedible items disguised as food, and other harmful things will not affect this inhuman biology.
>As a partial consequence
Poison immunity is not actually the feature of the skill, it's a side effect. The real point of the skill is the empowerment and changes to our body.
Being able to eat Circe's cooking, touch Hassan of Serenity and tell Shuten Douji to fuck off are just nice bonuses.
>>3648042
Of course there is. Why would we side with an enemy of the Gods?
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>>3648054
>Inb4 conceptual biology EX is actually just Alberich reaching the Swirl of the Root
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>>3648056
Remember kids! Don't touch the Swirl of the Root to try and become omnipotent! Otherwise your very existence will be obliterated! Just stare at it and take notes.
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>>3648026
>being able to resist a command spell is always useful.
That would definitely be useful. I fear Ayaka's feelings about killing will eventually get in our way, since she can't even kill doves.
I think a conceptual body might also give us a lot more leeway in what is to be considered a mortal wound.
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>>3648042
Damn it, Nasu. As my founder of Type-Moon, order me to purge this civilization!
>>3648054
Velber probably offer better deals AND we can`t eat Gods for powers too.
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>>3648111
Mmm.
A rank magic resistance would also allow us to save our Sister if Ayaka orders her death in the worst case scenario.
I also want to be relatively evenly matched when we rematch Seibah.
Something tells me Excalibur is gonna be uncuttable.
There's a few things that we shouldn't try to cut.
Namely Rhongo and Ea.
Also Enkidu.
Cutting the Chains of Enkidu kills us and the couple hundreds of thousand of people nearby with a full power Enuma Elish.
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>>3648054
I imagine it'd further change our appearance and maybe give a flat buff to our stats. But I bet there's some other wildcard effects
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>>3648125
>Something tells me Excalibur is gonna be uncuttable.
I hope not, that would be total bullshit. Durandal at least had unbreakability in its legend.
I think Arturia might get warned by her Instinct skill but I think that is the extent of it.
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>>3648125
>A rank magic resistance would also allow us to save our Sister if Ayaka orders her death in the worst case scenario.
If Ayaka orders it, I imagine it would be entirely necessary and there'd be no reason beyond rank sentimentality not to comply.
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>>3648158
>I hope not, that would be total bullshit.
>He doesn't know

>Strength: B
>Endurance: A
>Agility: A
>Magical Energy: A
>Luck: D
>Noble Phantasm: C

>>Class Abilities:
>Magic Resistance: A
>Cancels any magic A-rank or below. In practice, no magi today are able to hurt Saber.

>Riding: B
>Ability to ride things. She can ride most vehicles with above average skill, but she cannot ride those of demonic beast and holy beast rank.

>>Personal Skills:
>Instinct: A
>The ability to always "feel" the best course for oneself during combat. This heightened sixth sense is now close to precognition. It reduces by half any obstacles to vision and hearing.

>Magical Energy Burst: A
>This transfers magical energy into one's weapon and body, and by releasing the magical energy instantaneously, it increases one's ability. Simply put, it is like magical energy jet propulsion. Saber uses this magical energy for her sword techniques, guarding, and movement.

>Charisma: B
>Natural talent to command an army. It increases the ability of one's army during mass combat. Charisma is a rare talent, and B rank is enough to lead a country.
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>>3648129
Well a best case scenario boost, where everything that the skill is responsible for is increased gives us
Strength: A
Endurance: B
Agility: A
Magical Energy: A(+?)(Originally our magical energy was the only thing that gaining CB raised by two ranks, super wishful thinking though.)
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: A

Class Abilities:
Magic Resistance: A

Which puts us on even ground with Seibah except her END is A while her Strength is B. Obviously we still have no counter to Mana Burst or Instinct, but it wouldn't be as much of a stomp and she'd need to actually use Excalibur
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>>3648168
I know that in canon she is bullshit, but I have faith in Sweets
>>3648160
>If Ayaka orders it, I imagine it would be entirely necessary.
Yeah, no Ayaka values human lives a lot more than Alberich. What she considers worth our sister's life is not what Alberich would think at all.
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>>3648125
Our sword couldn't cut Durandal because it's unbreakable. But it can cut Achilles even though he's invulnerable. It's pretty inconsistent unless I'm missing something, so 50/50 chance we can cut excalibur.
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>>3648205
Wouldn't his invulnerability be negated by the fact that our sword is a divine construct?
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>>3648205
Wordplay. Concepts are the important thing in magic. Durandal can't be "broken," so your sword couldn't separate it into two parts. Berserker's ability is a bit different.
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>>3648228
Just a theoretical question.
So what happens if a MEoDP user looks at Heilig? Would it have no death lines/points on account of it's indestructibility and existence being linked to the concept of nothingness?
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So when we send the world back to the Age of Gods, we're building temples to Circe everywhere, right?

If Luck is based on divine favour, what do yoy think our Luck will be like after bringing the Gods back?
EX would actually make sense in that situation.
EX luck is probably just an autopass on stuff like the Gae Bolg saving throw.
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>>3647353
>>[ ] Rather than pursuing allies, what you need to prioritize is the pursuit of your own empowerment. You'll stay at home and improve your capabilities as a Servant today. (Pride)
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>>3647657
>Neutral Evil
>How so? Ogawara did nothing to bring about this fact. Was he really that crazy? Or is this simply the power of that Oni blood? Figures Judas would display favoritism for the caster of the bunch.
I just noticed this post. Honestly, Ogawara was neutral-evil even as a human, and the eating people did nothing to counteract this. It's the same alignment as Alberich, you'll recall.
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>>3648571
>Ogawara was neutral-evil even as a human
Really? Interesting. What was Matsuda then? Chaotic Neutral? Was our whole Akeldama crew shades of neutral/evil?
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>>3648572
Matsuda was chaotic-good, actually, even if he didn't always stick closely to his principles. Of the four hero candidates, he had the closest to a stereotypical hero personality.
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Man, the Tsubaki problem is a real pain.
On the one hand, she's a monster that needs to be stopped.
On the other she's our sister, who I want to protect.

I feel like getting her a way to sustain herself without requiring the sacrifice of humans will probably go a long way towards her mental state. Unfortunately, it's gonna be difficult to actually make her like humans.
If it's possible for Rushorou to go from feeling absolutely empty to feeling both positive and negative emotions, then it should be possible for Tsubaki to go from mostly negative to a functional mix of both as well.

At the end of the day, the one who hated his fellow man is still living his life unaware of her. (If she didn't decide to kill himself). I mean, the differences between Yumigawa Rushorou and Alberich are as clear as night and day, the two should never be confused as the same.
She shouldn't be living her life as a man who isn't her would have.
The fact that she's referring to the character's within our memories as "I" and "you" somewhat show that she hasn't quite accepted that reality.

Of course, there's always the chance that Judas wants us to overcome the innate flaws of our prototypes. It might have been an effect of the command spell, but it's possible that Judas is capable of assuming direct control at any time.
Which has some fairly serious implications.
Perhaps another trial from the man who won't fucking stop being a pain in our ass even post-humously.
Ot Judas was just fucking about. But I don't see why the man responsible for creating a Messiah would want to create monsters.
>>3648578
God, what a cool guy, that Matsuda.
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>>3648604
We just need to talk to Judas at the earliest opportunity.
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>>3648637
Bold of you to assume he'd actually tell the fucking truth.
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>>3648604
You know, you bring up a good point. Kōrakuhime is allowing her human experiences to dominate her opinions and thoughts despite looking down on humanity. Sad!

>>3648578
What was Keiseki? Lawful evil?

>>3648637
>He wants to talk to dad
Fuck him, I'll take everything on the chin. We don't need that man.
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>>3648660
Lawful-neutral.
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>>3648649
We hopefully can get verifiable information out of him. Things like what happened to the servants at the end of Akeldama? Does he know where Matsuda, the servant, is?

For things like if he can just take us over at any point I would like to ask Lily for help.
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>>3648660
>Kōrakuhime is allowing her human experiences to dominate her opinions and thoughts despite looking down on humanity
Our sister is a chuuni tryhard that doesn't really understand everything, yet is acting like she's got it all figured out. God damn it Tsubaki.
Were Alberich still acting with the personality of Rushorou immediately after his alteration, she would likely be dead.

It turns out that all of Alberich's siblings aren't the sharpest knives in the draw.
Keiseki got close enough for a superhuman murderer to kill him. (Kinda feel bad for this)
Kourakuhime is probably the weakest servant in the war and would've died to anyone pursuing her.
At this point if Matsuda has managed to both survive and get a Master, he might be the second most intelligent by default.
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>>3648781
>second most intelligent by default.
If we start to measure intelligence by success then we shouldn't forget that we got our first master "gifted" by Judas, we managed to get him killed and only Vaisset's preparations allowed us a second master.
If Matsuda survived and get a master then he's managed more than we.
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Does anyone have an official portrait of Matsuda laying around? Asking for a friend.

>>3648781
>Kinda feel bad for this
He deserved it
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>>3648781
You've gone all the way from "why is she so OP" to "weakest Servant in the war," now. What were you expecting her status sheet to look like, anyway?

>>3648799
Double portrait of pre-Servant Ogawara and Matsuda attached.
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>>3648805
Already got the Ogawara portrait combing the archive. Thanks!
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>>3648813
Yeah, I put that image together back during Fate/City Akeldama and no longer have the Matsuda portrait on its own. So I just posted both.
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>>3648822
Warmly waiting to meet servant!Matsuda!

>>3648790
>he's managed more than we
Has Matsuda beheaded a knight of Charlemagne? Exactly. Never disrespect Alberich like this again anon.
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>>3648849
>Kōrakuhime is inside Ogawara's thought bubble
I cracked up. A+. 10/10.
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>>3648790
Vaisset's death is on him.
We fucking told him to use his command spell and he should've used it the moment we were seperated.
>>3648799
Maybe, but he was still our brother.
>>3648805
I mean, she's still OP utility wise. But Caster exists to get bullied by classes with magic resistance, the Berserker of this war is a monster, and it's likely that Assassin is the traditional Einzbern bullshit summon.
It's possible to be OP but still be as flimsy as cardboard. Look at Judas.

>>3648849
Now I'm wondering what Kikuko and Truvi's alignments are.
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>>3648849
This reminds me
Where is FGO AvatarAnon?
We need a new one for our dear sister.
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You sit up and stretch, yawning as you do so. It's a bright, clear morning, and with the new day come many possible strategic developments for your course in the Holy Grail War. At the moment, however, you're in no mood to consider the broader points of strategy. The thought of last night's battle against Berserker sends a shudder of rage through you; that thing completely outclassed you in strength and speed, and its ability to regenerate was fearsome. If you'd been alone, no doubt you would have been crushed even more thoroughly than in your duel against the blonde Saber. After last night, it's imperative that you focus on improving your abilities as a hero.

There is hope for defeating Berserker, fortunately. You know that the portals Heiligöffnungschwert projects are capable of disassembling the foe, so it should be possible to put it down permanently with sufficient persistence. You can gather also that it lacks magic resistance. After all, wasn't your escape facilitated by some spell of Tohsaka's? With that in mind, one viable strategy should be to practice your elemental control and use that in concert with your blade to defeat Berserker.

As you're considering the viability of this plan, it occurs to you that there are two other avenues of self-improvement available to you today. One of these is your noble phantasm, Heiligöffnungschwert. You've found its first and third miracle extremely useful already, but the second miracle remains untried. "To bring into your world and sustain there the impossibilities which in Our world are possible," was the description you were given of its power. The explanation is certainly a vague one, but it's clearly a power of summoning. Perhaps you could bring some kind of ally or familiar out of the Realm of Imaginary Numbers to assist you. The other possibility is in your sister, Kōrakuhime. Now that you have another Servant to cooperate with, it's possible you could improve your fighting abilities by sparring. You certainly got a great deal of use out of training with Matsuda, after all, and the power-difference between you and Kōrakuhime should be similar. Alternatively, she might be able to help you with your training in magic. A live tutor is generally more useful than a book.

Thinking of Kōrakuhime, another notion bubbles up in your mind, and not a pleasant one: your nature. Yesterday you discovered first that you were created by Judas to become a new hero, and later that Ogawara and Matsuda had gone through the same process as yourself. At the time of the revelation, you decided to live on your own terms, and find direction in your life independently of Judas' aims. This resolution doesn't ease your curiosity, though. To what extent are you influenced by the fragment of his soul within you? What was his purpose in bringing new heroes to the world? In a more immediately pertinent vein, can Judas' knowledge aid you in the Holy Grail War?
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem as if you'll need Ayaka to waste her last command spell calling him forth again. Kōrakuhime and Judas himself have both told you that he can be contacted through some sort of meditative process, so if you want to contact him you suppose you'll just close your eyes and focus.

After considering your options for a while, you decide to...

>[ ] Return to the Shijou library and study magic. (Which subject?)

>[ ] Go out into the yard and try to summon something with Heiligöffnungschwert (Do you have anything in particular in mind, or will you let the sword draw forth whatever seems appropriate?)

>[ ] Look for your sister, to discuss training with her.

>[ ] Try to reach within yourself and meet your maker. (Write in your questions for him)

>[ ] Do something else (Write in)
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>>3648890
Frankly, checking on Ayaka and Kōrakuhime should come first either way
>[ ] Look for Ayaka and your sister
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>>3648897
Anon...
Ayaka is asleep in the same room as us...
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>>3648890
>[ ] Go out into the yard and try to summon something with Heiligöffnungschwert (Roll sword Gacha)
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>>3648890
>[ ] Try to reach within yourself and meet your maker. (WHERE IS MY FUCKING WIVES! )
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>>3648911
>Roll sword Gacha
Oh no, what has Sweets done?
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>>3648907
>Local anon is too retarded
Damn it, I was too focused on this edit. Switching to
>[ ] Look for your sister, to discuss training with her.
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>>3648890
>[ ] Try to reach within yourself and meet your maker. (Write in your questions for him)
What happened to Circe and Adelheid?
Why did he lie to us about our "siblings"?
Why does he want to make multiple heroes?
Why did he choose misanthropic humans to be heroes?
What does hero even mean by his definition?
Why does he remain within us, and what can he do with that?
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>>3648928
I'll switch from rolling on the Sword Gacha to this.

>FGO Joke Event where the villain is Alberich and he keeps trying to summon powerful monsters but keeps getting wyverns.
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>>3648888
>[ ] Try to reach within yourself and meet your maker. (Write in your questions for him)
What are the effects Akeldama had on our siblings mental and physical?
Is there something we can do and aren't aware of? Like can we use some of Judas skills since he is within us?
And this:>>3648928
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>>3648928
>>3649009

I'll support these, time for a talk with the man himself. If there's anyone who knows better of what we can do it'll be Judas
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>>3648890
>>[ ] Go out into the yard and try to summon something with Heiligöffnungschwert (Do you have anything in particular in mind, or will you let the sword draw forth whatever seems appropriate?)
GATCHA TIME
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>>3649077
No anon, stop!
Or at least wait until we can show off in front of our Sister.
Maybe she'll chill out if we get her a magical horse or something.
Also Medusa would be incredibly jealous if we summoned a Pegasus that is permanently manifested and doesn't require us to self-harm violently to summon it.
I think a Pegasus would impress Lily too.
Real Knight in Shining Armour aesthetic.
Would also impress Circe.
The great part about Pegasi is that they remained a staple part of European culture for a very long time.
Pegasi are non-violent creatures by nature, which means that we'd likely have an easier time befriending it, but actually using it in a charge would be impossible without some control method.
Then again, we can fire sword rift slashes, so a charge isn't our best hope in a fight anyway. We could just kite our enemies.
Additionally, should we befriend one into carrying us, we might be able to artificially raise our Riding.

I hope Tsubaki likes horses.
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>>3649190
>Tsubaki is a horsegirl
Wouldn't be surprised desu senpai
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>>3649298
Also, having her interact with something inherently good and kind might do her mental state some good.
Alberich's alignment is kind of in a weird place right now. He's technically neutral evil, but he clearly has some Good to him too, it just doesn't get the opportunity to actually shine through all too often.
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>>3649378
It's dawned on me that this is effectively just "Please stop being so unambiguously evil and I'll get you a magic pony."

Poor Alberich has no idea how he should actually treat a little sister other than seeing Vaisset's over-protectiveness and Tsubaki's entire knowledge of such relations comes from anime.
What an absolutely dysfunctional relationship.
It's only going to get more dysfunctional if we ally with Lily or when Matsuda finally shows up.

Then there's Adelheid and Circe to take into account, should they even still exist. We'd need a palace just to minimize the chaos.
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Anons during Fate/City Akeldama:
>We'll take over the world and build a massive palace because it's our due!
Now:
>We need a palace just to space out our family.
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>>3649567
>Poor Alberich has no idea how he should actually treat a little sister
Not surprising with how little he actually knows about his sister, but it will get better with time.
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>>3649603
Synthesis:
>We'll take over the world and build massive palaces in different countries just to space out our family!
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>>3649603
It's really funny, remembering our attitudes in Fate/City and comparing them to Fate/Awakening. Becoming a servant has almost had us anons start making Alberich act MORE human than before.
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>>3648890
Supporting >>3648928.
I want some real answers.
>>3649190
>Pegasi are non-violent creatures by nature, which means that we'd likely have an easier time befriending it
This means we can level up Riding pretty fast, doesn't it?
That means we should roll the gacha right after these words from our sponsor.
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>>3649665
>"Within my mind is but one simple thought! Just one! To be victorious and rule so I can live a quiet life! That is all!"
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>>3649667
It's a head-scratcher, that's for sure.
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>>3649667
>>3649696
obviously humanitarianism vs humanity is a bell curve
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>>3649696
The more distant he grows from humanity physically, the more he realises what he has lost. Or I suppose "never had".
His understanding of his new emotions has led to an appreciation of humanity the true Rushorou will never achieve.
Rather ironic.
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>>3649733
I think it's just a natural product of actually having meaningful experiences since his memories had none.
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>>3649667
Actually, I don't really think it's accurate to call him more "human". What does that even mean"
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>>3649739
Now where did Tsubaki deviate from us so as to reach a different conclusion?
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>>3649739
>spent all of akeldama in front of a computer
>spent time in the real world eating humans raw
He's had no meaningful experiences to speak of
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>>3649763
I knew we should've bro'd it up with him and Matsuda.
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>>3649739
That too, I suppose. Alberich has all of the memories of Rushorou's boring life, Rushorou himself plainly did not understand human nature. Whereas Alberich can actually somewhat empathise with those experiencing loss.
>>3649748
>What does that even mean
Well for one thing, Alberich isn't an empty shell of an existence, trodding dutifully upon a path he didn't even choose for himself, as Rushorou is.
>>3649752
Tsubaki wasn't a shell like Alberich.
The difference is that Tsubaki was "never" happy with her life (which, as she blatantly derived enjoyment from her hobbies, is false), while Alberich didn't understand happiness at all.
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>>3649665
>Alberich becomes Napoleon.
Niceu desu.

>My enemies are many, my equals are none.

>>3649748
I'm noting the lower levels of DIO posting, the general drop of interest in total victory and the continual defeat of our enemies in favor of taking care of "people" (namely Ayaka and Kōrakuhime)
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>>3649774
I think there's still a substantial interest in victory. At least I hope so. If this just becomes literal and figurative waifu handholding quest that'd be very disappointing.
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>>3649779
Of course there's still an interest in victory. There's nothing wrong with wanting to protect our Master and our family.
Rushorou has always been the one in charge of protecting his family.
Except Keiseki, because for some reason Judas decided Keiseki needed to oppose us.
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>>3649779
I will avoid that. Alberich must have his mind firmly set on victory by any means.
>implying tsubaki is a waifu
incest is just the worst
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>>3649789
It's not incest if there's no blood relation!
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>>3649785
I just think we're swinging too far in the direction of doing everything for Tsubaki. She needs to be able to stand on her own two feet or she'll just be dead weight despite her skill with magic.
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>>3649791
FUCK OFF WITH THIS MEME, ABE!
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>>3649769
>trodding dutifully upon a path he didn't even choose for himself
I really think we still are though. We're in a grail war we didn't choose to join and we're still a puppet on Judas' strings for some larger plan I'm sure.
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>>3649793
What?
No we're not.
I just want her to become less evil. If temporarily prioritising her will enable such a thing, then it's worth it.
Regardless, she's got the potential to be an excellent ally and can be a fantastic help in gaining our victory.
>>3649791
>>3649801
There's no blood relation, but their relation is much deeper in a way, the three were created in the same place, at the exact same time, by the same man, and they all share parts of a single soul. When it comes to their blood though, they are literally different species.
>>3649803
But Alberich has made his opinion on being a pawn in Judas' plans quite clear.
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>>3649812
Our opinion doesn't change our situation. We either win this grail war or we die, and we're not here by choice. He told Tsubaki about us without telling us about her for a reason. He's still manipulating us, if not from within, then via Matsuda and Tsubaki.
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>>3649803
Nevertheless, you decided of your own will to pursue power and reach the summit of the Moonlit World when you were in the Akeldama. There is an important distinction between making a choice that someone else planned for you to make and choosing to do something because someone else says you should do it. The latter is how the original Yumigawa Rushorou has been living.
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>>3649822
I mean, our opinion quite literally does change our situation.
That's the whole fucking point.
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>>3649824
I disagree, but I like the positive attitude
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>>3648974
>"I JUST WANT THAT SSR FINRIR, STOP GIVING ME WYVERNS."
>"Alberich please, we are enjoying the drops and the Assassins are loving it but there are so many wyverns.
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>>3649835
How can you disagree?
It's a base difference between Rushorou and Alberich.
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>>3649837
>Meanwhile, Ayaka fucking dies from mana overuse from repeated summons
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>>3648890
>[ ] Look for your sister, to discuss training with her.
And to discuss getting her food that isn't people.
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>>3649837
>"Yes! Finally! Behold! The legendary dragon! Fafnir has answered my summons!"
>it's just Sieg.
>"WHY?!"
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>>3649838
I just think that saying "someday I'll be able to do what I want" doesn't change the fact that right now we can either win the grail war for Judas or die trying, and that's not by our own choice.
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>>3649847
>we can either win the grail war for Judas or die trying
That's not true.
The Emiyas represent a "way out".
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>>3649851
Where we die afterwards because we're a servant that didn't get that sweet sweet third magic
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>>3649842
You know, this should be our more immediate concern.
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>>3649853
It's a shame that there aren't any massive magical energy generators lying around that have more than enough energy to sustain servants without the support of the Holy Grail.
Oh wait.
>>3649857
Our conversation with Judas can't really wait any longer though, he has the answers we need.
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>>3649860
>Wanting to live completely dependent on someone else
The Alberich I know wouldn't be able to accept that
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>>3649860
>Our conversation with Judas can't really wait any longer though, he has the answers we need.
If you say so, but we should really work on it.

By the way, we're going to rendezvous with the Emiyas tonight as well, right?
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>>3649867
>rendezvous
Dangerous choice in words Shirou

But no, we've dedicated our day to POWER already
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>>3649867
That depends on how fruitful our efforts are in the day, I suppose
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>>3649875
As far as I can tell, one of the few ways to get our Sister to be more self sufficient would be a Dragon Core.
Of course, to summon a Dragon will likely cost an immense amount of mana for us by itself, and killing it will be an incredible challenge.
The reward from it would be truly excellent though.
She'd be a Draconic Oni.
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>>3649891
Oh right, and we could re-enact the legend of Siegfried to become invulnerable.
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>Draconic Oni
>wanting two fatasses by the end of this Quest
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>>3649899
I mean, Kourakuhime is kinda going around eating entire families already.
If we can switch her from humans to fast food, that would honestly probably be better for her figure.
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>>3649891
Not to mention that summoning a dragon in Tokyo is wildly impractical
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>>3649891
>Lets make bootleg Shuten Douji

What is Matsuda going to be our bootleg Kintoki?
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>>3649910
you mean amazing on how much the Church and the Mages Association would flip out.
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>>3649913
>"F-father Antaglio you might want to take a look at this..."
>turns on TV
>"GIANT FIRE BREATHING LIZARD ATTACKS TOKYO. GODZILLA?"
>>3649912
Huh, yeah that would make her a sort of Bootleg Shuten Douji. Now I kind of want to do it more.
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How rare is our ability to summon beings from the imaginary realm? Would the Clock Tower take notice and mobilize some serious countermeasures if they knew about HGS? Or would we have to deal with counter guardians?
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>>3649936
>Counter Guardians show up
>Its EMIYA and Kerry
>Kerry fights Kerry 2
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>>3649950
Kerry wouldn't show up, though...
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>>3649936
Honestly it depends on size and context. We know from F/0 and F/SN that Servants summoning magical creatures in a Holy Grail War is nothing to prompt the world's intervention, but outside of that context things get more dicey. How many magi keep magical beasts around that are the genuine article, rather than constructs?
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>>3649956
I think summoning beings from the IR would demonstrate a risk to the age of man and would be dealt with really harshly if anyone important found out about it
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>>3649954
Oh I was just mentioning some F/GO dumb shit.
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>>3649936
>how rare is our ability to accomplish something even Casters can't do?
Immensely. It's an ability given to us by the Gods.
If a magus knew of our sword's ability they'd have a fit. The MA can't risk mobilising on a grail war, because that's just gonna turn it into a real war though.
But honestly, they aren't likely to take action regardless. It's not like anybody cared when Gil was fucking around.

Guardians aren't really supppsed to mess with Gaia's stuff though, which is kind of what we count as.
>>3649950
>EMIYA with unlimited respawns and infinite Broken Phantasm spammability
I'll pass, thanks.
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>>3649961
You say that but Alberich and his siblings are beings summoned from Imaginary Number Space.
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>>3649972
Kinda. But the point still stands. I don't think it'd be great for us if anyone important finds that out.
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>>3649979
Like who?
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>>3649984
Anyone involved in the clock tower or church.
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>>3649992
But we could slaughter the majority of both of their groups. Only their most broken stuff they've got might work.
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>>3649998
So obviously it's better to not draw their attention at least until the grail war is over
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>>3648890
>[ ] Look for your sister, to discuss training with her.
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Today's earlier update was a short one, but I've got a proper wall of text coming up for your conversation with dear old dad.
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After considering your options for a while, you decide the most important thing right now is to get to the bottom of all this mystery surrounding Judas' scheme with the Akeldama, your siblings, and his status as a part of your spirit. At the moment you have too many unanswered questions to focus on any kind of training. Only once you really understand your situation can you move forward towards the future, and your eventual victory.

Leaning back in your chair, you shut your eyes and focus inward, as you do when visualizing the flow of power in your magic circuits. That, still, is more concrete. Although the circuits are a part of your soul, not of the body, they remain something conceptually material: a form of the soul rather than a property of its composition. If you are to reach the mind within yourself, that fragment of Judas' spirit that awoke in answer to Ayaka's command spell, you must delve beyond the surface-level formations of spirit.

As you plunge your mind further into contemplation of the self, you outer senses become faint, disconnected. The feeling of the chair, the sounds of the birds, the faint cottony smell of the sheets on Ayaka's bed, all impressions fade away, and without being able to say exactly when or how the transition occurs, you find yourself in another place entirely. In fact, you're sitting in a church, dimly lit by the filtered sunlight that shines through its stained-glass windows. Looking around, you realize that chapel may be a better term than church for the building; it's exceedingly small, with only enough pews to sit around twenty or thirty people, and just four windows set in the high walls. Those walls themselves are made of great carved blocks of grey stone, with thin layers of mortar between them. Each block is at least half the size of a grown man, quite rough-hewn, and you notice that the immensity of the materials contrasts strangely with the overall size of the building to make it feel even smaller than it truly is.

But the decor isn't what you should be focusing on. Why are you in this church, anyway? Surely your interior mindscape doesn't take the form of a Christian house of prayer. Have you been physically transported by some subtle means while attempting to meditate? You get to your feet to look around further, when you feel a hand on your arm. Whipping around, you see Judas, sitting beside you.

"So I haven't been transported," you sigh, relieved. "Is it some trick of yours, then, that this is the form my mind takes on within a trance?"

"It is my doing, indeed," Judas answers with a dry chuckle, "but this is no meditative trance of yours; you overrate your spiritual abilities, young man. By attempting to contact me, you activated a hypnotic trigger which I placed in the minds of you and the other two heroes, that you might consult me if the need arose."
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"Well then," you snap irritably, "I should say that the need has arisen now. I'm ready to hear some answers, 'father'. In the first place, why did you lie to me before, when speaking through the command spell?"

"I did not lie," Judas replies, all mirth gone from his tone. "I was compelled by Shijou Ayaka's command spell to speak the truth, and I did so. I am no expert in that particular piece of binding magic, but it is plain even to me how powerful it is. I cannot, under ordinary circumstances, speak through you or subject your body to my will. It was only while following Shijou Ayaka's order to 'tell me the truth about your identity,' that I was able to manifest through you, speaking of your identity and of my own. Information about the other heroes whom I created, it would seem, was irrelevant to the command, and left unspoken of. Now you understand, I hope, why I impressed on you the importance of the proper means of communicating with me."

You heave a sigh and sit back down. At this point, you can't tell whether Judas is lying to you completely, telling a partial truth while shifting the blame for his omission to the command spell, or telling you the truth. Unfortunately, you have no way of proving or disproving what he says; there's nothing for it but to listen.

"Very well then," you say, "you can tell me the whole story now, at any rate. Let's begin at the end, shall we? What happened to Circe and Adelheid? And the others who were alive when your Akeldama collapsed?"

"It's a bit of a misnomer to call those two 'alive,' wouldn't you say," Judas jokes. Despite the glare you send his way, he continues unruffled, "The Edelfelt and Munahara girls were returned to the positions from which they were summoned. You took my place, as you know, and the others who had no source in the material world were scattered about your general area. I believe you'll find your two Servants somewhere in Tokyo, but more than that I can't say. I was dying at the time, you may recall."

"You were dying, weren't you," you growl. It's heartening to know that everyone escape Akeldama alive, but the lack of detail from Judas is infuriating. "How is it you've managed to cling to existence?"

"How best to explain..." Judas ponders your question for several seconds in silence before settling on an answer. "You understand, of course, that the spirits of those killed in the Akeldama were collected and processed into energy, which was then divided between you three heroes, yes?"

"Quite clearly," you say. "Hence my question. It appears to me that you ought to be formless energy, and not than an overly self-satisfied wraith."
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"I, however," he continues, ignoring your irritable jab, "was the last to die, and the orchestrator of the ritual; as such, I could direct the processing of my own soul. Rather than merging it with the mass of energy, I divided it into three unequal parts, each with the capacity to act as a lesser shade, and fused one fragment into the soul of each hero; to act as an advisor, a guide in the path to heroism, and in your case as a necessary identifier binding you to the Master-Servant contract with young Vaisset."

"I see." That is a sort of explanation, you suppose. You still don't feel you can understand the reasoning behind Judas' actions, but at least you're getting a general idea of his methodology. "What can you do, then? You've already explained that you're incapable of repeating the possession from before, but do you have any other abilities? Can I draw out the abilities you had as a Servant for my own use? Perhaps you can communicate with the third soul fragment and tell me what's become of Matsuda, or what effects the power of Akeldama had on the other two."

"I'm afraid you have no such good fortune, young man," Judas says. "I can speak with you here, and I can view the world through your senses. To do any more would be quite beyond my power."

"So you really are only a repository of memories," you say with another sigh. "Very well, then. You can at least enlighten me as to your intention with this nonsensical scheme of yours. What is your purpose, Judas? Why did you try to create four heroes, and require that one kill you in order to manifest into the world? Why did you give us the memories of misanthropes, people not at home in human society? What kind of person do you mean by 'hero,' if a person like Ogawara had the potential to be one?" You began resigned, but by the last question you're back on your feet, almost shouting. The pointlessness, the nonsensical lack of reason you see in Judas' actions drives you mad. How can someone responsible for your very existence have acted in such a meaningless, inconsistent way? How can Ogawara or Matsuda, who spent the entire war in the Akeldama lazing about the university, be worthy of the same empowerment you received?
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"Four questions," Judas says, "with very different answers. I will endeavor to set your mind at ease nonetheless." Judas stands as well, now, and walks into the central aisle as he continues speaking. "To begin, a hero is one who exists between mankind and divinity. Whether that is to be half man and half god, as the ancient heroes were, or to be simultaneously wholly human and wholly divine, as He was, the principle of heroism is the same." By now Judas has fully assumed the attitude of a preacher, standing at the head of the chapel, and it feels more as if he's addressing a large crowd than speaking personally to you. "Heroes spur mankind to rise towards divinity, and draw the divine attention down towards their mortal charges. Heroes, by their nature, sustain the quality of mankind, the attitude of divinity, and the mystery of the earth."

"In this way," he continues, spreading his arms as if to embrace the subject of his explanation, "we can view equally as heroes the finest bastions of morality and the basest avatars of brutality!" Then his eyes focus on you once again. "Though none of you three reaches such extremity, to my knowledge," he amends. "As for the matter of your memories and number, I must admit my disappointment that they were not obvious to you. One of your number, the fourth, died while the Akeldama still stood, and had I arranged for only one hero to be produced by the ritual I would thus have seen no results. Redundancy is the modern term, I believe; I created four hero candidates to mitigate risk. Your personalities were chosen as being those of humans who might adjust most easily to an existence outside of humanity; four people who would not move forward, rather than attempting to recapture the life they remembered."

So this is it: the true form of Judas' reasoning. Misanthropes to disconnect you from society, and four chosen to counteract the risk of death in the Akeldama. Your personalities as heroes are irrelevant. All that matters, apparently, is for you to exist. It's staggering.

"But what is the purpose?" you shout. "Why are you doing this? The Age of the Gods is over! You didn't bring it back by creating a hero two thousand years ago! Why repeat the same methods now?"
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"I have not repeated the same methods," Judas proclaims in a baritone that matches your volume, echoing off the stone walls. "Behold thyself, Alberich! I have, by my ritual, brought forth into this world a hero who can return the Age of Gods. Though you do not yet possess the capability, the potential is there." Excitement cooling, he returns to a more normal tone of voice. "Just as He chose the manner of His heroism, young man, it is your choice how you make use of that potential. Whether you let Age of Man run its course, open the gate for the return of divinity to the earth, or choose some other path which I have not foreseen, it makes no difference to me. I have already completed my role by the creation of this possibility. Now we have had enough talk of me, and of the past. Look to the future, young man. It is yours for the taking."

All at once, you're back in Ayaka's bedchamber, leaning back in her desk chair beside her bed. Your Master is still sleeping soundly, and the birds outside continue to chirp. Glancing at your watch, though, you see that over two hours have gone by. It's now half-past eight, and you still need to decide how you intend to train today. What Judas told you did a great deal to satisfy your curiosity, but nothing to improve your combat abilities.

>[ ] Go to the Shijou library to research magic. (What kind?)

>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime. (What do you want to bring up first with her?)

>[ ] Go out out to the yard and experiment with Heiligöffnungschwert.

>[ ] Do something else. (Write in)
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>>3650200
>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime. (Lets discuss sources of power)
Heavy shit Iscariot. But interesting nevertheless. At least (sans command spell) that rat can't possess Alberich.
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>>3650200
>[ ] Go to the Shijou library to research magic. (What kind?)

I've come to like Judas's place In the story, odd as that may sound.

>[ ] Go to the Shijou library to research magic. (What kind?)

Let's practice our elemental control again, and get a feel for molding our element Into some of the different shapes, like the ones offered last time. After that, we'll experiment with Heiligöffnungschwert to get a feel for the second miracle.
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>>3650200

>[ ] Go to the Shijou library to research magic. (What kind?)

The Transmutation of the Five Elements

>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime. (What do you want to bring up first with her?)

Bring her along to assist in helping to have us understand uses of the works of the Shinjou. And to discuss alternative sources of energy that doesn't involve eating familiees
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>>3650200
Oh hey so Circe is in Tokyo. Probably trying very hard to find us.

>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime. (Scry for Circe)
And on our way of searching we can talk.
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>>3650245
+1.
We should master what we have before we learn new things.
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>>3650224
>>3650245

I'll switch to support these, shouldn't stretch too thin. In the meanwhile need to get our sister a more efficient means of gaining mana
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>>3650200
>>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime. (Lets discuss sources of power)
Feels good, knowing how well Alberich took his becoming a Hero. Best son. Tsubaki definitely needs to chill the fuck right out still.

There we have it though, the return of The Age of Gods.
Alberich was designed to be the enemy of mankind, or at least their modern incarnation.
The Age of Gods wish. Back! With a vengeance!
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>>3650200
>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime. (Scry for Circe)
I miss Circe and with her NP we can easily get more mana suppliers without worrying about loyalty.
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>Our wives are safe
Oh thank fucking god, the waifu separation anxiety was killing me!
We should probably look for Adelheid first. Circe probably has anti scry software installed in the bounded field of wherever she's staying.
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>>3650529
>We should probably look for Adelheid first.
Odds are Adelheid's with Circe all the time to minimize expenditures, and would also be covered by any defences against scrying Circe may have set up.
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>>3650538
>tfw they were with the real Rush this whole time surviving by sucking his balls empty of life energy every night.
>tfw we can't kill the little bastard for cucking us or we'd turn to goo or something.
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>>3650540
>tfw you see an NTRfag
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>>3650540

>Implying they wouldn't realize the Rush they ended up finding isn't the one they dealt with
>Implying that the Fuhrer and Lady of Pigs would be so foolish to not see the man they so love isn't this emotionless husk

Your NTR dream is sad and empty as Rush himself. If not more so
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>>3650540
>we can't kill the little bastard for cucking us or we'd turn to goo or something
Who said we have to kill him?
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>>3650545
Hey man, it's a very real possibility, and also hyperbolic.
They've probably just been slowly sucking his soul out of his mouth like they did in Akeldama, if anything.

>>3650550
>Dream
No. Just a hypothetical.
>Empty
There might be more validity to it than you think.
>spoiler
Well if I'm right he's probably way more sad and empty after getting raped by random women he doesn't know.
It's a sad state of affairs really.

>>3650552
God I hope we know someone that can do that cause we sure fucking can't.
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>>3650200
>[ ] Go out out to the yard and experiment with Heiligöffnungschwert.
We need to summon something or experiment with the other miracles to defeat berserker. Training our basic ass magic won't be an immediate help in that fight.
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>>3650563

A hypothetical that falls flat on it's face if you were to take note of how Alberich during his time in Akeldama and real Rush actually contrast with one another. Besides with the sympathetic connection you'd think that Rush meeting with Adelheid and Circe again would set some shit off.

So get your head out of the ass of NTR and focus on the importance of how to properly get stronger

You know I'm curious, since Al and Rush are two separate beings technically instead of some future variation like EMIYA and Shirou. Could we "become one" with him as it were? Turn into a greater sum than the parts made up
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>>3650576
>spoiler
I don't think he has anything worthwhile. The concepts and properties we could pick up from him would be things like "human" and such, no NPs or other interesting mysteries.
The amount of magical energy his soul could provide would be pitiful, not worth absorbing.

Honestly, he has no material value to a Servant. The only reason to visit him would be to see if the resonance is between him and Alberich, rather than among the three Akeldama escapees.
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>>3650576
You're probably right.
But if you're wrong I'm gonna laugh at you super hard.
Also building strength is secondary to waifu retrieval.
Always.

>spoiler
I could be wrong like usual, but based on how Judas and our dear sister seems to talk about it, such actions would have very negative effects as far as we're concerned. Might give Rush a power boost, but why would anyone want that or help him obtain that?
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>>3650584

We don't know of how it'd go really so no need to jump straight into 'not worth it' territory. Never know the benefits until they're presented
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>>3648881
What's up? Ogawara is a bit more difficult to do since I don't think I can just grab NEEThime's body and call it day, gotta comb the different ascension sprites a bit more. I'll try and have something though.
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100000000% official Reichsleiter seats V2:

>Führer und Reichskanzler
Alberich
>Generaldirektor der Allgemeine-SS
Adelheid
>Generalkommissar der Waffen-SS
Saber Alter
>Kardinal der Thule-Gesellschaft
Circe
> Chef der Reichspolizei
[Matsuda]
>Generaldirektor der Japanpolitisches Amt der NSDAP
Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime

Any objections?
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>>3650200
>[ ] Go out out to the yard and experiment with Heiligöffnungschwert.
I think we should understand the capabilities we already have before working on others.
>>3650634
I object to being such a wehraboo
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>>3650646
objection overruled and condescendingly ignored
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>>3650634
What about Kikuko?
Also Truvi?

If I had to guess as to what Circe's done, she might have secured a location like Ryuudou Temple with a large quantity of available mana and already prepared defences. Then slapped all sorts of bounded fields on it. She's a far better Caster than our sister is.
She's possibly also Kojiro'd Adelheid and bound her to a physical object.
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>>3650563
>I hope we know someone who can do that
Yes.
Circe can "I have no mouth and I must scream" people.
Medea turned Shirou into a projection staff in one bad ending and Circe both taught her most of what she knows about magic and her NP Wand has the ability to modify anyone she wants as long as she's doing it out of malice.
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>>3650669
>What about Kikuko?
>Also Truvi?
We haven't retrieved them yet, so they don't have seats.
>If I had to guess as to what Circe's done, she might have secured a location like Ryuudou Temple with a large quantity of available mana and already prepared defences. Then slapped all sorts of bounded fields on it.
Yeah, I can see her pulling a Medea, but who would her Souichirou be? Most likely Yumigawa as a pig, but could there be any other candidates?
Maybe she went out to collect hedge-mages in this section of Tokyo and transformed them into pigs for farming magical energy.
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>>3650681
Yumigawa is still attending school, Ayaka might have realised if he were a Master, too.
In fact, it's possible she's using Kikuko as her Master.
Kikuko is already brainwashed and Circe knows where she lives.
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>>3650200
>[ ] Do something else. (Write in)
>[ ] Go down into Vaisset's workshop and start looking through his research notes.
Take our sister with us too.
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I wonder how Truvi's holding up.
When we eventually meet her again, and explain what we are, I do want to know how she would react.
Her reaction to Kourakuhime would be especially fun.

Things that we should try and get done today
- Sword Summon (Pegasus? Unicorn?)
- Discuss power sources with Tsubaki
- Spar with Tsubaki
- Research Vaissets notes
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>>3650766
>Sword Summon (Pegasus? Unicorn?)
Better make it a pegasus, they're gentle creatures good for a beginner.
It's a gacha right now, though, so we could very well roll a 100 and pull out something as overwhelming as a dragon or Gugalanna or a little piece of Tiamat.
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>>3650769
>a little piece of Tiamat
"Tsubaki I believe I have made a tremendous error in judgement."
>everyone in Tokyo is dying
Sadly, for Gugalanna, we'd need to ask Ishtar.
Summoning a Dragon is almost certainly ending with our death.
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>>3650769
forgot the rest of my comments
>Discuss power sources with Tsubaki
We could go out and look for hedge-magi to use as magicae-energy farms, if Circe hasn't gotten them yet. Jean said there were sixteen active lineages within Shijou jurisdiction, which should give us plenty of magus juice.
>Spar with Tsubaki
Probably not directly, since we're immune to almost everything she can throw at us and likely much better at CQC than she is. Maybe she can set up a training course, though.
>Research Vaisset's notes
Absolutely. Both we and Tsubaki can benefit greatly from this.
Honestly, if Vaisset managed to complete Elemental Transmutation it would be revolutionary. Magi would be able to use spells outside of their own alignment by generating other elements under their control, if it works like I think it does.
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You guys got it all wrong, 100 would summon a goddess that posseses Ayaka.
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>>3650783
She does have the ability to temporarily take on the physical strength of an Oni.
She absolutely needs training though, foolish girl has never fought a day in her life.
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>>3650793
Yes, I thought of that after I posted.
We would probably gain Agility and improve Mind's Eye eventually, while she would learn to not be totally useless in melee.
Although the best sparring partner for our own improvement would be Shirou and Matsuda. Sparring with Tsubaki will mostly benefit her.
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>>3650788
and what are the odds that it would be Hecate, of all divine spirits?
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>>3650800
>Shirou
He's quite powerful but in a spar we'd still need to hold back our strength. This is HF Shirou, who is the least skilled technique wise of his alternate versions after 15 years of mostly peace.
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>>3650801
>Hecate
Better than Ishtar, at least.
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>>3650817
Circe would disagree.
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>>3650802
He's still the most versatile and skilled sparring partner we'll find. Medusa's too simple -- she has only Monstrous Strength and her chain for a friendly fight -- Rin's dubious and she would learn too much about how HOS works from observation, Sakura's a noncombatant and we haven't found Adelheid yet.
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>>3650825
I doubt it's anything more of a "but mooooooom!" ordeal.
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>>3650837
more than*
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>>3650837
Do you remember what Circe had to say about Hecate back in Akeldama? She didn't have a lot of kind words.
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>>3650837
>"You see, when I was a goddess, I cooperated with Hecate to teach a portion of the Divine Language to humans, so that they could call on our authority over mana to improve their lives, and the two of us became known as the Two Goddesses of Magic. That vixen didn't have a shred of loyalty, though! After I was imprisoned on Aeaea, Hecate commanded her worshipers to wipe mine out so she could hold the title of Goddess of Magic alone!"
You might be surprised.
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>>3650856
Ah, that is pretty bad.
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I wonder if Sweets will make Telegonus, Agrius, Latinus or Nausithous show up in flesh rather than in dream flashback since it is now confirmed that Circe around here somewhere and and Archer is likely Odysseus. I wonder how juicy will drama be.
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>summon magical being
>kill them
>sacrifice them for power boost
>???
>profit
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>>3650939
Things might start ignoring our summons anon. We don't have a Holy Grail to entice them wifh
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Anyway, now that we know Circe is around I want to summon a Pegasus even more, just to look more hero-ey for her.
Also, a Pegasus is guaranteed to piss Saber off again, both because a Saber shouldn't really have a mount of that quality and because she got wrecked by Bellerophon a few days ago, by her perspective.
>"So you finally reveal your true nature as Rider, Alberich!"
>"What are you talking about? I'm Saber, Rider is over there next to Emiya and Tohsaka."

Oh and speaking of Shirou...

Memories die when they are killed.
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>>3651016
First we tell her we're Saber, then we tell her we're Rider, then we tell her we're King Arthur. The plan is falling into place
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>>3651065
Bonus points if we introduce Kourakuhime as "my sister, Morgan Le Fay."
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>>3651065
> then we tell her we're King Arthur
Well, Ayaka DID summon King Arthur (once).
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>>3651082
>>3651088
>circe is merlin
>adelheid is lancelotluckily we have no guinevere
>matsuda is bedivere
>roland is in our belly
We're almost ready.
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>>3651088
Man, prototype excalibur looks amazingly lame. It looks like the dragonslayer as designed by Liberace.
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>>3651103
>spoiler
>implying we would be an autistic pussy
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>>3651103
Adelheid is more Agravain than Lancelot.
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>>3651141
Is she really the type to point out our-- actually, you're right. But if you think about it she has the greatest raw power among our allies, which is why I pegged her as Lancelot...
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My word, Judas is irresponsible. All he wants to do is create beings of extraordinary power and let them loose on the world and he doesn't give a damn what happens as a result. I think I have less respect for him now than ever before.

>>3650200
>[ ] Find Kōrakuhime.
Let's get her some god damn food. Probably worth scrying for Kikuko as a potential mana source, though it's possible she's bound to one of the other survivors already.
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>>3651206
>My respect for Judas Iscariot has plunged to a new low!
Well, that's not something you read every day.
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Should we stick around for Lady Ayaka Shijou Case Files?
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>>3651206
Really? I almost like him now. A servant recognizes there are no heroes left in man, and rather than doing nothing he stands up and creates some anew.
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>>3651213
I just noticed Judas kept using he with a capital H, is yellow baldy still a big deal?
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>>3651206
Didn't she just eat? We've got our own stuff to worry about first.
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>>3651224
He basically has the same motivation as Gilgamesh, with a somewhat less destructive methodology.
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>>3651228
>Is Jesus still a big deal
....
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>>3651221
We can show up in the crossover with El-Melloi Case Files, kill Gray for the crime of looking like Arturia, crack open Add and break Rhongomyniad.
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>>3651228
Yellow... baldy?
He was talking about Christ, to be sure we're on the same page. As one of the Apostles, Judas definitely has enough reverence to use He.
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>>3651238
>break Rhongomyniad
I don't think that's a good idea.
>>3651233
Well at least he's not trying to go about it by killing 99.9 percent of humanity.
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>>3651238
>kill Gray for the crime of looking like Arturia
Way to simple.
Imagine intimidating her with "Why you are not wearing your maid uniform!?".
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>>3651238
>kill Gray for the crime of looking like Arturia,
Sure is a funny way to spell
>force Gray to become Saber Alter's assistant maid
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>>3651254
>I don't think that's a good idea.
So, what, the Age of Gods starts again? Big deal, that's what we're supposed to do anyway.
>Well at least he's not trying to go about it by killing 99.9 percent of humanity.
Speaking of the Age of Gods...
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>>3651269
>>force Gray to become Saber Alter's assistant maid
an imitation will forever be inferior to the original
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>>3651233
Based.
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>>3651277
But there is no rule that says an imitation cannot defeat the original.
>>3651270
There's a way to go about bringing the Age of Gods back
Colliding the two planes of existence together at high speed isn't it.
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>>3651213
It's different than it was before. Previously, I actively considered him an enemy and gave him credit as such. Now, I'm just... vaguely disappointed in him for being a careless person.

>>3651224
His idea of "making new heroes" is just make powerful shit and let it run wild. Like if Oppenheimer never cared about who got to use the atomic bomb, and was just happy that he made a weapon that could do so much damage.

>>3651254
>Well at least he's not trying to go about it by killing 99.9 percent of humanity.
Not actively trying, but it doesn't seem like he'd mind if that's how it all played out.
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>>3651315
I mean, if the world was running itself to extinction and somebody using a nuke was the only way to fix it, I too would carelessly distribute nukes. Besides, I don't think it's so careless as you think. Recall that he only wanted ths greatest of his children to inherit the Akeldama's power, and it was only because of Alberich's nature that it was distributed so widely. In theory, the best of the four should have been the sole hero of the modern period.
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>>3651315
Meh, an atomic bomb is only capable of pure destruction. Judas' creations are capable of much worse and much better
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>>3651315
Well, at least Alberich turned out OK against all expectations, and Matsuda is also hopefully still Good.
Right now it's just our dumb Oni sister who's turned out slightly wrong, and hopefully Alberich can fix her.

We might still have to bring the Age of Gods back, but that's OK.
Human dominance of Earth for too long literally kills the planet.
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>>3651292
>But there is no rule that says an imitation cannot defeat the original.
YES THERE IS REEEEEEEEE
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>>3651360
By your logic, Umu > Seibah
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>>3651315
Anon, making powerful cool shit is the best part for any proper weapon creator. It is pure fun and entertainment.
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>>3651337
I don't think he intended to kill all but one, if he really did make four for redundancy.
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>>3651360
>The "king of heroes"
Imagine needing orphan juice to survive. Couldn't be Alberich!
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>>3651369
But Nero's an imitation of Arthur. And Nero < Arthur
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>>3651373
You don't model the Akeldama on a grail war if you intend there to be more than one survivor. Also, he put all but one of his children in the same city. That's begging for fratricide!
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>>3651385
>Nero < Arthur
Trash, one and all. The what is the worst servant in the world compared to the second worst servant in the world?
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>>3651375
Only the finest handmade bentos made by dearest sister and out of healthiest homegrown kids!
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>>3651385
But chronologically, Nero is before Arturia.
>>3651389
>put all but 1 child in same city
>one saves the others and they all start bonding
>"fuck!"
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>>3651389
>You don't model the Akeldama on a grail war if you intend there to be more than one survivor.
What if he knows about all the derailments of every Grail War and was counting on one of the kids to derail Akeldama?
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>>3651369
By all logic that is the case, anon!
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>>3651270
>So, what, the Age of Gods starts again? Big deal, that's what we're supposed to do anyway.
Where are you getting this from? Judas just said that he doesn't care what we do. And even if it was what we were "supposed" to do, I don't know why Alberich would take orders from Judas.

>>3651337
>I mean, if the world was running itself to extinction and somebody using a nuke was the only way to fix it,
He doesn't care if the world gets fixed, though. He's perfectly fine with the Age of Man running its course if that's the way things go.
>Recall that he only wanted ths greatest of his children to inherit the Akeldama's power,
>In theory, the best of the four should have been the sole hero of the modern period.
He never says this, either. Four hero candidates existed to ensure that *at least* one of them survived, not in the hopes that *only* one would survive. He didn't want to create one new hero, he just wanted heroes ("heroes" apparently meaning simply beings of immense power) to exist where they didn't previously.

>>3651344
I think you're missing the point of the analogy. The point isn't the bomb itself, it's the that the power of the bomb now exists and can be turned towards someone else's ends. Atomic bombs are capable of many different things based on how you apply them.

>>3651346
>Well, at least Alberich turned out OK against all expectations,
Given the massive gulf between Pride and even the next highest stat and that he's started to hunger for people juice, he still needs some work.
I'm more trying to make a point about the fact that, as far as Judas is concerned, it doesn't matter what we do. We could go on a rampage that makes Akeldama Blackbeard look like Gandhi and Judas will be just as satisfied as if we spent all day helping kittens get down from trees.
>We might still have to bring the Age of Gods back,
I still don't understand the fixation some anons have on this, and I'm even more confounded that some people are starting to treat it like a mandate because Judas said that we can do it if we feel like it.
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>>3651405
>chronologically
my ass, all saberfaced sabers are inferior imitations of arturia
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>>3651419
Impossible, Rushorou tried derailment by revealing Judas' servant and Circe could only discover that it was a Noble Phantasm despite all her magical talent.
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>>3651432
I'm just getting some hypnogogic shitposting in.
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>>3651432
>I still don't understand the fixation some anons have on this
At least for me it represents bringing wonder and mystery back into the world. Though I definitely only want to bring the age of gods back if we can ensure us being one of those gods.
I don't want to bring them back just to be some servant to them.
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>>3651432
Not heroes as in "beings of extraordinary power" for such things exist even now as sorcerers and their ilk. Judas created legends the likes of which man had long since abandoned, entities capable of truly aspiring towards divinity. There is a certain nobility in such an act.
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>>3651451
This is why we need to use the wish to incarnate, conquer the world, become a god-king and ascend to godhood upon death as the Age of Gods begins again due to human belief in the existence of gods.
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>>3651451
Being a full God is lame though, we'd be better off with Gilgamesh's job.
>>3651432 #
I'm the original Age of Godsfag.
Humanity fuck up the planet and kill Gaia if left unchecked.
This is canon.
Fuck what Judas wants, it's what the Gods want.
Also we could get Circe her divinity back
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>>3651428
A fine taste for the fine citizen of Rome!
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>>3651432
We've discussed bringing back the age of gods since Akeldama, should we change our minds now just because Judas mentioned it?
It's a better motivation than the stereotypical "protect muh nakama" motivation that some people seem to be pushing for.
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>>3651470
>Being a full God is lame though, we'd be better off with Gilgamesh's job.
Then not a god. I just want to have enough power and respect to stay independent and not become a servant.
What we actually are or call ourself is secondary at best.
>Humanity fuck up the planet and kill Gaia if left unchecked.
That's also something to prevent. It's kind of sad that humanity kills Gaia despite being her children.
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>>3651482
Just to be clear, there's nothing wrong with wanting to protect your allies. But it's boring if that's our only aim.
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>>3651482
I mean, I'm all for protecting our friends/family AND bringing the Gods back.
>>3651498
Gaia is only mad about it because they can survive killing her, too.
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>>3651503
I didn't think Heavens Feel was boring.
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>>3651506
If Akeldama taught us anons anything, it's that the thrill of victory and the struggle of honest battle is more engaging than such a defensive approach.
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>>3651482
>>3651503
>motivation
But the only real big motivation we said in-character was a wish to live our own in previous thread
>"It seems I do have a wish at that," you declare. Your voice is rising now, as you find the proper shape for the formless rage that had been swirling in you since Judas finished speaking. "I would be free to live and choose my own fate and its circumstances, not those planned by Caster!. As you speak, you bring a fist down hard against the table in a moment of pique, and the impact makes you realize the extent to which you'd let your emotions take control. You force them down, bringing your voice back to your normal, better modulated tone.
Not that I am against Age of God idea but I recall it only fleetingly occurred to Alberich once during the Akeldama?
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>>3651504
>Gaia is only mad about it because they can survive killing her, too.
But I didn't even say anything about Gaia being mad? I mean sure she is, but it doesn't change the fact that her children killing her unintentionally is sad.
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>>3651519
We can discuss it at length with Circe when we eventually meet her again.
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>>3651519
Looks to me like you're forgetting the motivation you decided on back in Akeldama, on the park bench.
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>>3651519
Keep in mind this was when we were asked about our wish by Ayaka. It would be pretty awkward to tell her that our wish is to end the world as she knows it to bring back the age of gods.
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>>3651524
I know, but Gaia would happily accept it's death if not for it's murderers surviving killing it. Which is also sad.
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>>3651462
>There is a certain nobility in such an act.
How so? That claim only checks out if "divinity" is somehow an inherently valuable, desirable, or good thing to have. What makes divinity so special?

>>3651470
>Humanity fuck up the planet and kill Gaia if left unchecked.
You're going to have to work pretty hard to convince me that "Age of Gods returns" is the only solution to "humanity left unchecked". If someone (*cough* Alberich *cough*) was in the driver's seat for humanity, then Gaia's death shouldn't be inevitable even if the Age of Gods isn't back.
>it's what the Gods want.
Why does it matter what they want?
>Also we could get Circe her divinity back
Circe is dead.

>>3651482
>We've discussed bringing back the age of gods since Akeldama,
Yes, discussed. Only discussed. I've been arguing against it since it first came up. It's never been a set goal, not for us nor for Alberich.
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>>3651533
>Without a moment's hesitation, the answer springs to your lips. "Rulership," you say. "To have the power necessary to seize authority justified by superiority. Since the beginning of the Grail War, I've discovered new aspects of myself. I've grown as a human, to stand above others. I want to continue that growth, that process of becoming superhuman, without limit. If I do so, then it is my duty as a superior individual to lead those who are my inferiors. That is my wish: the power not only to stand above humanity but to lead properly from that elevated station." As you speak, you find yourself raising your voice without intending to. The words bubble up from a previously hidden wellspring of conviction and pour out of you, almost beyond your control.
This is actually my favorite wish. It just needs to become more specific at some point.
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>>3651547
>Circe is dead.
I should clarify - the "real" Circe is dead. Servant Circe, assuming she has a mana source, is still alive and kicking.
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>>3651533
>'The world of the magi values strength and aptitude, that's obvious from the behavior of Truvietianne and Saber's Master, O'Mordha. If I can convince Caster to teach me her ancient magic, maybe I could forge a new identity for myself, as a magus.

>'No, as a more than an ordinary magus; as someone bringing the strength of legends back into the living world! To hell with my old identity, I don't need it anymore! There's no reason to constrain my ambition to the heights my father reached! I'll come out of this War, and with the power of my Wish, I'll climb to the summit of that Mages' Association Truvietianne was talking about!'
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>>3651547
>Why does it matter what they want?
Because they are supplying us with our greatest ability and represent a way for Alberich to truly stand above humanity?
>Circe is dead.
Opinion disregarded.
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>>3651559
>Because they are supplying us with our greatest ability and represent a way for Alberich to truly stand above humanity?
We already have a way to stand above humanity with our wish. I also think depending too much on them rewarding us for bringing them back is a mistake since the gods are pretty fickle.
Better to do our own thing and keep them happy than to do stuff for them they didn't even ask for in the hope of a reward.
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So we're generally planning to find an alternative source of power for Tsubaki, right?
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>>3651548
Adelheid has always inspired the best in Alberich.

>>3651547
How godlike, how immortal, is humanity in the modern period? Consider how man lives today- he cowers and sneaks, vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of "necessity". Men lay up treasures which moths and rust will corrupt and thrives break through and steal, and so they allow to waste away that which is noblest about them. With this in mind, creating an entity which might strive towards divinity in the place of- or perhaps in the name of- humanity is inherently a noble and worthy act.
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>>3651533
>>3651548
>>3651554
It does however feels kind of overshadowed by new relevation after revelation we were hit with.
So without proper catalyst wish to dominate, control, conquere and twist the world somewhat out of blue at the moment. Pride is still there but kind of unfocused really. Mostly because how much more complicated things are getting.
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>>3651588
I think we've recovered from the initial shock of every revelation. We're just focused on Tsubaki to the exclusion of our own best interest at this point which I disagree with. But hopefully once she's got a stable source of energy we can focus on our own goals, and she can probably help us if we're not too busy treating her like our helpless little sister.
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>>3651588
I can't say I feel that way. It always was Alberich's goal, though he values survival as a requirement more.
Hell the fact that he wants incarnation and not just to survive by having his mana supplied by someone and being dependent on them shows a certain pride.
All in all as someone else already said living just to survive and keep our friends alive seems not as interesting than having ambitions.
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>>3651588
That makes sense.
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>>3651588
We need to go find a park bench.
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>>3651613
I have no ulterior motives.
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>>3651603
>We're just focused on Tsubaki to the exclusion of our own best interest at this point which I disagree with.
I don't think so. I mean yes we are willing to inconvenience us for her, but this isn't completely out of the goodness of our heart. Having an extra Caster, who has no outside loyalties, is pretty useful. Just the fact that she can scry gives us a real advantage here and is well worth some effort on our part.
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>>3651603
>We're just focused on Tsubaki to the exclusion of our own best interest at this point
I'm not sure I see what you mean. I know things feel focused on her because of the discussion, but in the actual quest you've hardly derailed the Holy Grail War for her.
It's been about 8 hours since you met her, and in that time you've:
Had a conversation
Taken her home with you
Slept
...and that's it.
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>>3651573
>How godlike, how immortal, is humanity in the modern period?
Unfortunately, you've assumed that divinity is a good thing while trying to establish it as such. Who cares how godlike humans are? Who cares how immortal? Why does that matter? Why is "divinity" any better than "cowering", "sneaking", and "fearing" out of "necessity"? And how are the gods any different? It's not like gods don't need anything. The fact that they needed to make a whole new world to live in for fear of dying is proof of that.
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>>3651625
Yeah I know, I was just referencing the discussion recently.
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>>3651641
There's nothing wrong with wanting to save our sister.
Even less so when she can help us in our goals.
Gee, Alberich, how come Akeldama lets you have TWO Casters?
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>>3651636
>Implying I care about the gods
They're cowards too, following their weakest whims eternally. Alberich can be better. Indeed, he will be. I'm not referring to divinity in the literal sense, not that measurable godsblood, but the finest aspects and aspirations of mankind. Heroes exist to exemplify, to achieve that which mortal men cannot. Yet, over time, heroes faded into nothing and the masses of humanity remained. They exist in a state of despondence, eating away at the earth and marching apathetically towards the end. Alberich can renew their hopes, reignite the dreams of eternity which have been lost to time. This is the "divinity" which I want us to gain. Reality crushes man, but Alberich is not and never was of reality!
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>>3651621
None whatsoever. You're obviously just suggesting the most rational, logical, and in-character method for Alberich to work through these shocking revelations.
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>>3651658
So basically, while your conception of divinity and Judas's differ (he certainly seems to have been talking about "divinity" in the literal sense that you aren't), you still he his end goal as noble. I don't see "achieving impressive things" as a particularly noble concept, since doing something impressive or difficult isn't necessarily doing something good. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
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>>3651248
YHVH - pic related, thought you played SMT.

Jesus Christ for Saver class or are you doing away with that bit from Extra
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>>3651658
Perhaps we can help each other out to cement that glorious moment of human history for eternity...in a way.
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I think we should reserve judgement on returning to the Age of Gods till we've suggested it to Circe.
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>>3651700
I suppose we will. Leaning this hard into the heroism is really fun for me.

I feel like a coward, so I'll note that in my first post defending my position I ripped Thoreau's "Walden" a bunch.
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So... bench?
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>>3651729
Return of the true waifu.
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>>3651729
I definitely hope to make contact with Lily again.
I kind of want to play both sides with her and the Emiyas to our own personal benefit
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>>3651721
Well mathman, how would you propose we get The Alberich Show going without branching off wildly and getting fucked by the quantum time lock?
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>>3651751
>tfw want to play both sides but also want to protect Lily's smile.
I don't want to lead the Emiyas to their deaths either, really.
Double Casters should be able to alter their minds so we don't need to kill them.
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>>3651554
>To hell with my old identity, I don't need it anymore!
This bit right here was why I was confused about why we were getting all emotional about our former identity being false. We had moved on from that existence way back in Akeldama. It seems like we were a way stronger character emotionally back then. We're getting a little broody for my tastes.
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>>3651780
It's the difference between thinking you're a human who has risen above his previous place in life and thus throwing away your old identity to being told that everything you know is a lie.
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>>3651780
It was a major character moment to put your old life behind you and move forward as a new person. To learn that you never had that old life in the first place is a significant blow in part because it undercuts that decision.
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>>3651838
It undercuts it even more to mope about not having a human origin
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>>3651876
No it doesn't though?
You're constantly over-exaggerating Alberich's actions. He hasn't moped. He understands the loss of something he always considered himself as.
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I wonder if Tsubaki will get along with Lily. Because I want to protect them both.
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>>3651995
>both refer to us as some variant of onii-san
>both are mentally stunted
Not too well, initially.
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>>3652016
>both have flower nicknames.
How did things turn out like this?
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>>3652016
>mentally
I meant socially.
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>>3652033
I mean.
Mentally too.
Kourakuhime has been acting with very little regard to her own well being.
And Einzbern Homonculi live a completely sheltered life and are only taught what is relevant to them, leading to both social and mental problems.
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>>3652089
I feel you're being a little hard on your sister. It's not as if you took her unawares in that house. You don't really know how much care she was or was not putting into avoiding capture.
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>>3652125
We both felt each other's presence from a way away though, so catching her unaware wasn't gonna happen anyway.
Her method of gathering energy, while she might see it as practical, was done with enough of a pattern for enemy masters to deduce as the work of a rogue servant.
She might've had an escape planned, but it would need to be one hell of an escape plan to get away from enemy Servants.
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>>3652159
>Her method of gathering energy, while she might see it as practical, was done with enough of a pattern for enemy masters to deduce as the work of a rogue servant.
>She might've had an escape planned, but it would need to be one hell of an escape plan to get away from enemy Servants.
You are pointing out flaws here, but do you have a better idea? Leylines can't be used and finding a master that can sustain a servant without assistance from the grail are really hard to find.
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>>3652193
Mix things up and don't act like a serial killer.
Pretty simple.
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>>3652211
But you need to eat every day, so you can't just stop regularly eating. And mixing things up doesn't help you, since everyone would still know what you are doing.
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>>3652217
Would they?
Eventually, sure.
Burning down a house and leaving no survivors every night however is far more noticeable than groups of 5-6 people disappearing at night.
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>>3652227
Groups of 5-6 people in one house disappearing every night? No that's not less noticeable.
And if you think to pick them up from everywhere in the city you not only extend to time you can get caught you also extend the space you need to cross which also heightens the risk of getting caught.
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>>3652229
You're missing the point.
If not for the fires, nobody would even be bothering to look for her.
Mysterious disappearances could be rationalized as the Yakuza or human traffickers, and a magi wouldn't take notice nearly as quickly as multiple mysterious magical fires every night.

Hell, the fires are the only reason we started looking for her.
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>>3652249
That's very optimistic. We also have a lead on "unnatural luck" which is a lot more ephemeral than mass murder every night.

So even without the fires we would have looked into it. And I doubt magi would ignore the obvious traces of a cannibal if they weren't destroyed by the fires.
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Hey Sweets. What's the current decision looking like?
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>>3652302
Majority is for finding your sister.
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>>3650200
>[ ] Go out out to the yard and experiment with Heiligöffnungschwert.
Weren't we planning on improving our combat capabilities today?
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>>3652451
We have the entire day and our sister also needs to get stronger.
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>>3652467
Also I want to show off our summoning when she's around to see it. For a few reasons.
1 to show off
2 to prevent misunderstandings
3 just in case
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>>3652467
It seems like it'll take the rest of the day
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Random question. Would you a Passionlip if you were Gudao?
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>>3653700
Absolutely not, all sakuraclones are the worst as per >>3651277.
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>>3653744
But anon...
Breast Valley.
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>>3653700
Meltryllis is pretty great.
Passionlip looks deformed, though.
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>>3653795
While I normally couldn't betray my ideals as a breast man, I have to agree with Sweets when he says Passionlip looks deformed.
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>>3653818
>Passionlip looks deformed, though.
Hey, be nice. It's not her fault she's 80% tiddy.
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>>3653849
And what about the other 80% giant claw?
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Eternally considering...
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>>3653898
Sorry about the delay, anon. I'm working on it now, but I've had a lot on my plate today.
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>>3653895
>spoiler
Ok let's be real, her design is fucking dumb.
But still.
Be nice.
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>>3653940
No promises are made.

On another note, who should we do this to?
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>>3653981
No.
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>>3653981
Shirou, obviously.
Or Saber.

Poor Alberich, he's less than 3 weeks old and he's already having to deal with his chuunibyou younger sister/twin because his deadbeat dad refused to raise his children right, and his other sibling is a delinquent.
Being Alberich is suffering.

so if Judas was only summoned because of Ayaka's affinity for sacrificial magic, and she was the true Master of Caster all along, judging from the command spells reverting to her doesn't that sort of make her responsible for our creation too?
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>>3654427
Of course she is. However, being Alberich is actually the greatest high.
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>>3654430
We only get to say that if we absorb an enemy servant during a 2v1 or 2v2 or whatever.
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>>3654435
I do wonder how other servants will react to that, the Einzbern Assassin nonwithstanding. I assume it will lead to some sort of compact against Alberich.
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>>3654427
Good thing we are not blood related then.
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>>3654437
>alliance made to defeat Alberich
>"I have already accounted for this."
>suddenly reveals 4 allied servants and summons a Dragon
4 is the minimum of Circe, Kourakuhime, Adelheid and Matsuda.
Theoretically it might be possible to get Seibah Alter or Einzbern support.
Rider and the Emiyas are a bit iffy now, entirely dependent on our ability to fix Kourakuhime, and even then it has a high chance of going poorly even if we get Kourakuhime to tolerate humanity.
Rider and Sakura should hopefully understand.
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>>3654451
If we revealed Kourakuhime, the Emiyas would become our enemies pretty quickly unless we made an excellent case. We'll have to hide her with help from Circe and her own Witchcraft.

Furthermore, Ayaka can't support four Servants by herself, which forces us to find a sustainable source of energy.
Our options there are to detail trains, hunt criminals and other undesirables, or capture hedge-mages to farm for magical energy -- I brought up the third option earlier, and I believe Circe is doing something like it.
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>>3654438
>Man has the hots for his mother who is physically younger than him yet mentally is his senior by many years
Just like one of my eroges!
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>>3654461
It's possible that if we frame it in the "i want to save her" way then even Shirou will have trouble going "nah we need to kill her."

That would make him king of the hypocrites.
Sakura knows what it's like to be a monster and so does Rider.
We just need a way to sustain everyone.
>>3654462
I believe the term is Galge.
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>>3654462
>physically younger than him yet mentally is his senior by many years
Anon, it's the other way round.
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>>3654472
Alberich has the body of a 6'2" adult man.
He's got 3 weeks of his own memories and that's how old he chronologically is.
He's got Rushorou's memories but the two are completely seperate existences.
Alberich's mentality is only a few weeks old.
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>>3654472
Alberich, despite being three weeks old, has a very mature body. Comparatively, he only has three weeks of real memories to go by, plus 18 odd years of false memories.

>>3654470
I'm not sure Shirou is above being the king of hypocrites in the name of his ideals. But at the very least, that would be a delicious moral quandary for the walking sword.
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>>3654473
>>3654474
Memories are memories, whether they belong to you or not.
As for the body, I could argue that biological age is not the same as physical age but that might be splitting hairs.
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>>3654477
But Alberich has already rejected those memories multiple times.
"That person is not me."
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>>3654474
It all depends on him.
If he wants to die he can try and stop us.
Alberich does actually like Shirou somewhat, even if they might become enemies in the end, so I imagine he'd be averse to killing him remorselessly.

Once again, the annoyingly good nature of Emiya Shirou helps him out again.
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>>3654473
How many memories you have is not deciding how mature you are mentally. Those things are just often correlated, but not the cause of each other.
>>3654461
We already know about at least Haruo, so if we can get him from Akagata, that would help.
Circe would be really helpful here with her NP. It would completely remove the concern of masters deciding to fuck with us with the command seals.
Get her and we can probably get Sakura as a mana supplier without being even more bound to Emiya's hero complex.
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>>3654506
>get Sakura as a mana supplier
Poor Sakura.
Can we at least not kill them all though?
Killing Shirou would lose us the opportunity to see a Kourakuhime/Circe/Shirou cooking contest.
Killing Rin would fuck any future relationship with the Edelfelt up because of Luvia.
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>>3654521
We'll see how the narrative develops. But if Alberich kills one, they all must go.
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>>3654523
We could just capture them all and keep them unconcious until we've incarnated, instead of killing them.
Then when we've got no further use for them, erase their memories of the grail war and dump them all back home.
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>>3654521
>>get Sakura as a mana supplier
>Poor Sakura.
>Can we at least not kill them all though?
Why would we kill them when we don't need to? Circe's NP can actually reduce the risk of needing to kill them.
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>>3654531
I suppose so.
Circe doesn't need her NP to alter their mind though. She can use It to do other things though, changing the appearance/age/species/shape of people is rather useful.
Turn the Emiyas, Rin and Rider into children so even should they escape, the threat they represent is reduced.
>>3654525
I just realised how hilarious wiping their memory of the war would be. Especially on Rin.
>"So why did you come to see us anyway, Rin?"
>"Oh no, I don't know."
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>>3654525

That's an idea. But in any case how about we all discuss of what EX rank HGS and Kenotis would be and what NPs we'd need to eat in order to get them to that rank.

You know now that I think about it Achilles has only shown one NP so far. He probably has something that could mesh together with Kenotis if it isn't the invincibility one
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>>3654550
>Circe doesn't need her NP to alter their mind though. She can use It to do other things though, changing the appearance/age/species/shape of people is rather useful.
Sure, but I think her NP makes it impossible for them to shake it off like normal hypnosis which would be pretty awkward.
>Turn the Emiyas, Rin and Rider into children so even should they escape, the threat they represent is reduced.
Turning them into children reduces their usefulness as allies in a fight. I'm not really opposed to it as I'm more interested in their mana, especially Sakura's, since we already have a good amount of servant-tier allies in Circe, Tsubaki and Matsuda. But it is something we should keep in mind.
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>capture sakura
>remove her mana links to Rider and Shirou
>Circe turns her into a magical object that supplies us with all the energy we'll ever need
>Shirou and Rider disappear so they can't do shit about it
Problem solved
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>>3654580
Genius anon. It's New Orphan Juice! Like new coke, but better!
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>>3654558
EX rank HGS is probably unlocked if we bring the Age of Gods back, or we could ask a God of Smithing to empower it or something.
EX rank Kenotis is likely near Avalon tier protection. No idea how to get it though.
>>3654570
The combat effectiveness doesn't really matter. Rider is the only one really worth anything in that regard and mostly only for Cybele.
Also
>forgetting Adelheid

But yes, having Circe super brainwash them might be effective.
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>>3654580

It's...It's beautiful, and mindslave Rin as a useful resource of information on learning the Second Sorcery
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>>3654580
I don't really approve of this.
It's far too evil even for Alberich. The Emiyas have honestly done nothing but show him kindness and sympathy.

We'll also never be able to have a cook-off with our Casters vs Shirou.
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>>3654580
At that point we would have to think about how to deal with Ayaka, because while she probably is okay with necessary actions. She's most likely less okay with practically killing three people when we could brainwash them and orphaning the children.
>>3654593
>>forgetting Adelheid
Thanks, that was who I was forgetting. I was wondering since the list seemed shorter than usual.
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>>3654580
Seems like an easy way to get a genuine Dark Sakura situation.
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>>3654607
I don't think so. I mean it's more cruel than I would go for, but knocking her out then turning her into an object has no point where she will ever be aware of what we did.
First because she's knocked out and then because objects have no awareness.
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>>3654603
Think about it, the loss of three lives could stop the loss of hundreds if not thousands in the future by eliminating the need for any of the imaginary numbers servants to continue harvesting humans for power. It's the utilitarian option.
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>>3654614
I didn't notice the "magical object" part. That somehow makes it worse.

>>3654623
>t. Kirei
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>>3654593
>Combine kenotis with berserkers golden skin
>When activated, kenotis becomes a second skin that sends all incoming attacks into the imaginary realm
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>>3654625
Kotomine-sama would be very disappointed that battery-Sakura wouldn't suffer at all. But frankly, that plan is so devlish that it makes me just want to kill her and be done with it.

>>3654627
>Kenótis reverts back to the skin from whence it came, and Alberich becomes able to manifest portals to the IN realm on his body directly
That's such an awesome idea
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>>3654623
It's pure evil for no reason.
We plan on incarnation.
I hope you also intend to turn Lily into a magic object.
There's no reason to kill the Emiyas.
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>killing and eating multiple entire families including children for energy
Yeah no biggie. Whatever. We're cool Tsubaki.
>Considering making orphans out of the emiya children for energy
How dare you? That's monstrous!
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>>3654550
>>3654593
We really shouldn't do much to Rin, because Zelretch will notice and start meddling, and we really don't want to take him on.
It's better to rewrite her memories so she never met us. She came to Tokyo to investigate, found the Grail to be squeaky-clean and the War to be legit (the Einzberns looked at every fuckup and decided to merely summon a really strong Servant) and left to submit her findings to Zelretch.
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>>3654653
Anon, the EFFICIENCY!¡!!!
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>>3654653
Comparing that is really not the same.
Killing and eating families was done for survival.
Killing the entire Emiya family would have no real reason. At best you could say you do it for better chances in the war, but even then simple brainwashing would be just as well.
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>>3654660
We're gonna need a mana supply for Matsuda and Tsubaki ASAP for their survival. And since the only other real suggestion has been to summon a dragon and kill it I don't think it's unreasonable.

It's less evil than killing an entire plane or train and harvesting the energy of countless humans.
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>>3654653
Dude, you went from brainwashing, which is perfectly doable, to turning Sakura into a magical object and doing whatever you would've planned to do with Rin. Also,
>We're cool Tsubaki.
The entire premise of finding an alternative source is that we aren't cool.
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>>3654682
Hey man, if you've got a non-evil way to get the energy that Tsubaki and probably Matsuda will need to survive and help us in the war I'm all ears.
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>>3654687
Lily.
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>>3654689
...go on
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>>3654691
As an Einzbern created lesser grail, she has effectively unlimited magical energy.
It's merely the challenge of properly befriending her.
Which we need to do anyway in order to truly incarnate.
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>>3654672
>It's less evil than killing an entire plane or train and harvesting the energy of countless humans.
Which would be perfectly okay when we hadn't the possibility of just using brainwashing here. Maybe you would have to kill Rider to free up more mana, but practically murdering Sakura and orphaning the children is just for no reason.
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>>3654696
So you want to give a rival in the grail war two additional servants?
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>>3654701
Why is she a rival in the first place?
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>>3654706
Because she's an enemy master.
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>>3654701
Yes.
We literally need to protect her in order to make our wish anyway, and the Einzbern only want to win the fucking thing, they don't really care about the wish anymore.
Truly incarnating Servants is an aspect of the Third Magic too, I think.
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>>3654706
Not necessarily agreeing with >>3654701 but c'mon now anon.
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>>3654700
I guess I don't really know the limitations of having her as a mana source. Is there a range limit? We can't exactly have them attached at the hip. We can't have her leaving to pick the kids up from day care in the middle of a fight.
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>>3654708
She's also the lesser grail.
She has no need for the wish because she literally cannot make it.
She's the one supposed to grant it.
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But why not just mindcontrol Einzbern loli and wish for Third Magic with Grail for ourselves?
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>>3654715
>Sakura is literally staying at home while Rider and Shirou zip about Tokyo
Spee D. Reader.
If there's a range limit it's not going to be something that shackles them.
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>>3654733
Nah yeah I remembered that as soon as I made that post. She'll be fine as long as we stay in the Tokyo area, but I imagine our quest for domination won't be limited to just Japan.
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>>3654733
I wonder how high Berserker would have to kick Shirou's torso to hit the range limit
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>>3654715
>Is there a range limit?
Not as far as I know. Masters don't have a range or not one that would ever become a problem. If we used her just for mana transfer with kissing then you would need to have her there, but generally you then transfer a ton of mana at once and use it up over time. And that is if Circe and Tsubaki couldn't create some kind of mana link for us.
>We can't have her leaving to pick the kids up from day care in the middle of a fight.
but after the fight she could go back to her life or just at day when not in a fight.
Circe's NP has the problem with the requirements it's not really undoable.
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>>3654728
Why not? It would require an Od farm so the others don't fade away before Alberich figures out how to grant wishes, but it could work if we can pass the camel through the needle's eye.
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>>3654738
We're going to incarnate with the grail after this war, you buffoon.
That's why we need Lily.
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>>3654749
Can we incarnate ourselves and the other "heroes"? I thought it could only incarnate one person per wish.
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>>3654752
There's nothing to suggest that at all.
In Apocrypha, Amakusa had targeted the entire population of Earth with the grail iirc.
It's just that there's usually only 1 servant left to incarnate
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>>3654747
True Magic is lame.
We'd also need to go through all the trouble of Counter Guardians coming after us for opening a hole to the root, and we'd need to kill an extra servant.
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>>3654715
>We can't have her leaving to pick the kids up from day care in the middle of a fight.
You remember the Emiya kids are 14, right?
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>>3654766
>True Magic is lame.
patently false
>We'd also need to go through all the trouble of Counter Guardians coming after us for opening a hole to the root, and we'd need to kill an extra servant.
A: Alaya doesn't give a fuck about us because we aren't human, and would only send Counter Guardians if we became a clear threat to human survival.
B: Alaya sends a red shadow, not Counter Guardians.
C: if we end up restarting the Age of Gods, Alaya dies.
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>>3654807
The third true magic is lame.
The other unclaimed ones are unknown.
Also going for true magic is metagamey as fuck.
Also it immediately gets Zelretch's attention.
I'd rather just incarnate our allies along with us.
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>>3654807
So you are saying we should follow our Self-Preservation and kill Alaya in self-defence first?
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>>3654829
>The third true magic is lame
Well yeah, because it's meant to be a way to reach the Root so you could get your own.
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>>3654874
It's not really that easy. If we want to do that then we need the help of the Gods.

>>3654881
I don't really want it because true magic would make us too overpowered.

5 (6 with Seibah Alter) Servants is already enough to ruin pretty much anyone's day.
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>>3654892
>because true magic would make us too overpowered
Wait, hold on a, wait. You want us to NOT be overpowered???
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>>3654903
I don't want the quest to become an absolute cakewalk, yes.
Stuff like the 1st, 2nd and 5th magic can literally ressurect the dead. Honestly it wouldn't be interesting if we just got that strong.

Hmm, the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch would be excellent to sustain multiple servants with, actually.
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>>3654874
only if she violates the NAP
>>3654915
It's not like Magic is easy to learn and develop.
And what the Einzberns have is incomplete and highly inefficient, so it's not an auto-win button.
Furthermore, this is going to come up at the end of Awakening Mirror, so there won't be much quest left until Part III starts.
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>>3654930
The incarnation of our siblings and allies makes far more IC sense for Alberich than true magic.
He doesn't know the capabilities of it and he isn't the sort to make a gamble on an unknown.
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>>3654972
Dream Crusher D+
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>>3654986
A form of Dream Crusher far inferior to the one belonging to the one controlling truth, this version of the skill can only crush dreams of a false nature.
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>ywn nuke Alaya in sef-defense
I have to live vicariously through Alberich

>>3654972
I want the magic.
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>>3655130

I think the question to ask for True Magic is what will we be doing with it once gained? I do have a good idea of what to do using the Second
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>>3655130
YHVH Parody when?
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>>3655143
Bully Sabers across the multiverse?
Acquire unlimited Circe and Adelheid?
Become the god-king of every timeline?
The possibilities are limitless
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>>3655159

They really are but what I'm thinking is Hindu, Babylonian, and Greco-Roman Servant farming for fun, power and profit. Who wouldn't wanna have a life time supply of Gilgamesh to bulli and eat?
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>>3655159
>>3655175
Sweets help me I can't crush all these dreams by myself.
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>>3655190
Trace on, brave anon, trace on.
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>>3655159
>>3655144
>>3655175
Anyone else ready for Alberich Over Heaven?
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The important thing is which sorcery you're going for.
The Third is relatively available, and probably the only way you're going to survive the Holy Grail War, as we've already discussed.
The First, Second, or Fifth? There's not a ritual lying around to make them happen; you'd have to actually figure them out yourself, and that is not, not, not a thing done simply.
Actually, on the subject of the Third Sorcery, what's this debate about incarnation vs the Third? Up until now, I thought you folks were all on the same page of wanting to incarnate via the Third Sorcery, but now there's a faction against that? What are you thinking, a Gilgamesh-style incarnation where you still have to fuel your magic with human lives?
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>>3655229
Thank you, Dream Crusher: EX.
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>>3655229
The third sorcery is the only thing that makes sense. Any other form of incarnation would be a waste of a wish.
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>>3655243
But it wouldn't be though.
Suddenly wanting true magic is meta-gamey
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>>3655130
>I have to live vicariously through Alberich
On that note.
I really like that while Alberich is written as his own character (even with our choices deceding on general course) he still comes off incredibly relatable in his thought process and inner dialog. And I almost never get that feeling in any media written with self-insertion of reader in mind.
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>>3655250
>Suddenly wanting to live is meta-gamey
>Suddenly wanting more power with which one might dominate the moonlit world is metagamey
Nah
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>>3655255
Absolutely. The consistency of character in this quest is probably my favorite part of it. It really allows the reader to immerse himself in it and it never feels as if a given choice or consequence is weak fanservice.
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>>3655256
>suddenly wanting true magic is despite not being a magus is metagamey
Yes!
Also what's this wanting to live shit?
Incarnation wish will do that.
Gilgamesh was an imperfect incarnation.
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>>3655229
I want to incarnate via Heaven's Feel, but I also want to learn it.
That power would give us a huge edge against the inevitable monsters that will try to crush us, like Zelretch, Aoko and Lorelei.
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>>3655271
>Zelretch
who
>Aoko
who and
>Lorelei
I think we know her.
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>>3655250
Didn't we already learn about the third magic at some point? How is that metagamey?
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>>3655282
>Zelretch
Guy who beat up the moon
>Aoko
5th magic is bullshit
>Lorelei
Just a really talented magus.
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>>3655291
I was speaking from Alberich's perspective, almost all three of those are literal whos and we only know Lorelei by last name, through a thirdhand source.
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>>3655250
>meta-gamey
Keep in mind our talk with Rin
>"You mentioned it yourself," Rin says triumphantly. "The Third Sorcery! A long time ago, they supposedly held the secret to eternal life, but they lost it a thousand years ago. Since then, they've been pursuing its rediscovery. The Holy Grail War, the ritual to create the Third Sorcery, is their latest attempt, and it's gotten them the closest. The core of the Third Sorcery is the incarnation of the soul as a self-sustaining material lifeform; a mystic perpetual motion machine. If they've been researching immortality for a thousand years, and the result is a Sorcery based around the soul, it stands to reason that their other achievements during this time must also have been in soul-related magic."
>"I see," you say, musing on the subject. "In that frame of reference, the homunculi would have been a natural byproduct of their research into the nature of the soul. Artificial souls, created when studying the original, and put to whatever use best suits the magi."
And we are aware now how we were created not so differently from this from our point of view.
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>>3655289
We know it exists, we don't know what it does.
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>>3655297
We do know what it does though
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>>3655299
Not well enough to gamble on.
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>>3655296
>The core of the Third Sorcery is the incarnation of the soul as a self-sustaining material lifeform; a mystic perpetual motion machine
>>3655305
Oh really
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>>3655282
>>3655295
It doesn't matter that Alberich doesn't know their names, only that he knows there are people stronger than him or otherwise threatening out there.

Besides, tell me with a straight face that Alberich wouldn't take more power if he had the chance. And Rin mentioned the prospect of a perpetual-motion machine, which obviously means we'll get to live after the War, so getting the Third would sound like killing two birds with one stone.
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>>3655255
>>3655265
Aww, thanks! Consistent characterization is, I think, the hardest part of writing, so it really makes me happy to read that!
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>>3655305
An entirely wortby gamble for mystic immortality.
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>>3655297
Also, prior to your conversation with Rin, Shirou mentioned it in the following way:
>The Holy Grail War was originally conceived by the Einzbern family as a ritual to bring forth a massive supply of energy, the Holy Grail, and with it to complete the Third Sorcery and achieve perfect immortality.
That was the first time you heard of the Third, and makes the overall point fairly clear.
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>>3655317
I'd much rather we used our wish to incarnate ourselves and our allies first.
We can try for true magic later on.
Even if we know the capabilities, we'd be entirely untrained in it's use.
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>>3655338
I don't understand your reasoning at all. Alberich knows about the third magic and it would help him achieve all of our stat ed goals.
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>>3655350
He knows about it and what it's capable of.
You're assuming he'd know how to do all that instinctively upon getting the Third.
He wouldn't.
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Why do I get the feeling that Kourakuhime will be subject to intense bullying from both Matsuda and Circe?
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>>3655410
Because she's a memey chuuni, and they both knew "Ogawara" to an extent.
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>>3655429
I wonder if she'd get along with Adelheid or Seibah Alter.
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>>3655354
>"Holy Grail, grant me the knowledge and full capabilities to use the third true magic!"

>Alberich then proceeds to Incarnate himself If that wasn't automatic with the wish, and Incarnates everyone else he wants possibly given some time.

After that It's just a matter of deciding what to do with not being dead. Perhaps find a place to seize power and rule, start an empire?
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>>3655451
Not sure it quite works like that.
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>>3655451
That's not how the Holy Grail works, remember? The 'wish-granting genie' notion is just what the founding families sold to the rubes. You have to know how to use the energy within the Grail, whether you're going for the Third Sorcery or not.
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>>3655464
Does Alberich know that though?
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>>3655503
That's irrelevant, you're literally planning our failure OOC if you attempt that.
That Dream has already been crushed.
>>3655464
So you mean to say we need to spend more time with the person who knows the most about the Third Magic?
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>>3655503
I think Shirou said something to you about the Grail being a mass of formless power, but you should check the archive if you want to see exactly what.
>>3655551
I think you know exactly what I'm saying.
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>>3655551
Hey I'm on board with that for sure. I wanted to work with her from the get-go.
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>>3655551
>>3655563
So... bench?
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>>3655580
Good to see you're a man of taste.
It's funny.
Alberich and his siblings are actually all kind of Super Homonculi in a way, so while Alberich isn't actually Lily's elder brother in that he isn't an Einzbern Homonculus, their existences are very similar.
They also look alike enough to easily be considered related.
We're gonna have to be real nice to her for when she eventually finds out though.
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>>3655595
Bench, yes.
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Truly, for all we quibble about the thread stands united on the important issues.
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>>3655644
Alberich is a man who understands the importance of protecting his little sister's smiles.
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On that subject, I've spent a bunch of time this morning looking for a portrait for Liliesviel.
As exected, I've been disappointed by my perfectionism and unable to find something that quite matches what I had in mind.
Instead, here's the first of two portraits. The "real" Liliesviel is somewhere between the two.
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...and here's the second.
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>>3655722
>Pegasus on dress
Huh.
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>>3655724
>>3655722
We need to kill more servants to impress the loli, ASAP.
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>>3655755
We cut that fuck Berserker clean in half but he didn't die when he was killed.
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>>3655763
Killing Berserker once with support<<<< Killing Berserker five times with no support

We must do better.
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>>3655770
Well Agility A would be ideal.
We're a Servant with the ability to ignore most defences.
I'd like to eventually get EotM up to B as well.
Though with the Servant Boosts we should only level or gain things we won't be able to get through training.
We upgraded our agility by sparring with Matsuda back in Akeldama, so hopefully we can accomplish the same with all of our physical parameters now.
Riding will raise by learning how to Ride, obviously, which the skill helps with and will hopefully cause a positive feedback loop.
Magecraft we can train with Circe or Tsubaki.
Charisma raises naturally if you're a good leader/speaker, you just need to actually rule for it, worst case scenario we can ask Adelheid for tutoring.
EotM is just your skill at fighting, or more correctly at analysing a combat situation, which will raise with experience.

Conceptual Biology is one of those things that training won't power up.
As are the Magical Energy and Luck parameters.
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>>3655722
>>3655724
>On that subject, I've spent a bunch of time this morning looking for a portrait for Liliesviel.
Nigga you could have asked us to try to find something for you.
I'm here waiting for the next post and you out here looking for loli reference material.
That said, good finds.
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>>3655813
But mostly, to do better vs Bahsahkah, we need higher agility.
Endurance is also important though.
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>>3655822
Oh, and another benefit of befriending a Pegasus is that we can ask it to keep Ayaka safe and out of harms way while we fight.
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>>3655813
>EotM is just your skill at fighting, or more correctly at analysing a combat situation, which will raise with experience.
We already have it at rank C, which is an ungodly high amount of combat experience. Servants can go through lifetimes of war without getting it to rank D- and Servants with it at rank B have insane amounts of combat ability + talent. EoTM (T) will take direct empowerment to level up for the purposes of this war, guaranteed.

>Charisma raises naturally if you're a good leader/speaker, you just need to actually rule for it, worst case scenario we can ask Adelheid for tutoring.
Once again, not one we can level up in a timeframe relevant to this quest w/o direct empowerment. Unlike EoTM (T), this skill doesn't really even merit proper discussion.

>>3655822
Agreed. Fucking Achilles with his agility A++. I'd like to see Arturia deal with that shit and see how it goes.

>>3655837
Interesting. Not a bad idea. Really, that would be a great use of any summon. Hey Sweets, have we avoided any decisions thusfar that would've lead to Ayaka's death? Or have all of the possible dead ends been purely for Alberich? Just curious.
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>>3655843
A thing to remember with Alberich is that magic gloves that rapidly increase his combat experience were incorporated into his being, meaning that EotM (True) might be possible to raise in a more manageable timeframe.
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>>3655843
>Arturia deal with that shit and see how it goes.

>"EX..... CALIBUR!"
>end of fight
gg Achilles.
Also, Magus Killer vs Magus.
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>>3655859
Maybe, but I doubt it. That'd be ludicrously broken, imagine getting EoTM(T) A after maybe a year's worth of battle. Absurd.

So, we know Circe wouldn't approve of all of this "armor" and "clothing" that Alberich wears in battle. Anyone up for fighting in the nude, Kenótis + Heiligöffnungschwert for that matador aesthetic? Maybe this would even make Alberich faster against Berserker....
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>>3655816
>you're out there
>>3655843
If you'd died vs Rider she'd have either been killed or made into one of Kyouka's pawns. Similarly, Ayaka definitely died after you did in your first dead end against Berserker. You haven't run into any situations yet where you could have outlived her, though.
>I'd like to see Arturia deal with that shit and see how it goes.
She'd have died, like, immediately.
>>3655859
The potential improvement available through them over the course of your life was all summed up and given to you at once as Mind's Eye (True) C.
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>>3655892
Magus Killer versus Magus that maybe fought off adult Shirou + adult Rin. Not a ez kill to be sure.

>Excaliblast Achilles
>Sickeningly comes back together from the heels of his severed feet.
Also, I feel like if nothing else that speed would make Arturia work for it.
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>>3655896
I don't think we're weak enough that undressing our armour makes us more powerful.
And we're not a DBZ character either, with super heavy clothing.
Circe would totally approve of a Pegasus though.
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>>3655899
>You haven't run into any situations yet where you could have outlived her, though.
As I suspected. Sorry for getting you killed alternate timeline Ayakas.

>She'd have died, like, immediately.
Pic extremely related
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>>3655914
Nah, Excaliblast would vaporise him entirely, like it did the super regenerative Gigantic Horror.
Not like it would matter if she died before using it though.
>>3655899
Oh, so is Alberich at the peak of his natural potential when it comes to fighting skill now?
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>>3655924
Assuming she would even have the time to pull out excalibur. Berserker is fast as fuck and she won't have a partner to help distract him like we did
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Let's compare the benefits and drawbacks of your choice of summon, when we get round to it.
For Pegasus
+ Flight
+ Friendly, can likely be convinced to carry us.
+Kourakuhime might become less evil by interacting with an inherently good creature
+ Good publicity, who doesn't like horses? Circe would like it, probably. So would Lily, I hope. It helps the Knight in Shining Armour aesthetic and also the Greek Hero aesthetic too.
+ Can protect Ayaka by keeping her outside of combat range while we fight
++++ Further upsets Seibah
+ Magic Resistant
+ very fast travel at night
- non-violent, won't charge without being controlled
- we can't ride it without it agreeing to carry us yet
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If your battles in the Akeldama taught you anything, it was that one can derive greater combat strength from gaining comrades than from personal training. WIthout Circe, Adelheid, Matsuda, and Ogawara all contributing in their own fields of expertise, you could never have survived Judas' Holy Grail War. With that fact in mind, you decide that your first priority of the day should be speaking with your new sister, Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime. It's essential that you work out a method of maintaining her existence without drawing the ire of the other Masters the way she has been; and important to determine how her abilities can best contribute to your overall strategy in the War.

With that decision made, you get to your feet and exit Ayaka's boudoir, careful not to wake her as you move. Before you make it much farther, though, you take a look at yourself and realize something is off. You're still dressed in the tight black undergarments from your armor, rather than a decent outfit. Meeting your sister in armor may have been acceptable when you were expecting an enemy Servant, but it's hardly the same now; so you put your conference with Kōrakuhime on hold for a short while, ascending to the third floor to return to Ayaka's father's room and find yourself something to wear.

As you examine the contents of the dead man's closet, you come to understand Ayaka's motivation in choosing a pair of clothing options for you. Her father was an evidently flamboyant dresser, and his wardrobe seems to contain every style of men's formal wear dating back to the early Nineteenth Century arrayed in a staggering profusion of brightly colored fabric. It's some time before you finally settle on a choice that's neither garishly loud nor comically archaic: a black wool suit with white pinstripes, single-breasted and cut close to the body-line, with a white shirt and paisley tie done in a wine-red base and silver patterning. Some part of you deep down says that not every suit you wear should have the same color scheme, but you quash that part. Cream doesn't really work in the winter, and you'd have to be mad to put on one of the deceased Vaisset patriarch's royal blue or lime-green silk monstrosities.

With your clothing picked out for the day, you head into the adjoining bathroom for a shower. It's not a necessity, strictly speaking. A Servant's body doesn't produce sweat or other waste, and the grime that collects on your clothing over the day mostly disappears when you dematerialize your armor and its undergarments. Still, eighteen years of morning showers produce a strong habit, even when the memories belong to someone else; and you enjoy bathing. Going the past few days without a shower just hasn't felt quite right.
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Showered, dressed, and ready for the day, you check the watch Ayaka gave you. It's just after nine. Hopefully, then, Kōrakuhime will already be up and about and you'll be spared the trouble of waking up the misanthropic girl. You make your way downstairs in good spirits, thinking to check the kitchen for her presence first; no doubt she'll be displaying the same zeal to cook that Ogawara did during your time at Judas' University.

No such luck. The kitchen is empty, as is the living room, dining room, and all the other common areas of the house. After giving up on Kōrakuhime being awake and moving around, you turn your search back upstairs. There, at last, you find your sister fast asleep in one of the second-floor bedrooms, breathing softly as she lies still beneath several layers of blankets, her head and shoulders elevated by a heap of cushions. She seems to have dismissed her mass of ornamentation to sleep, however; the braids that separated two parts of her hair are undone, so that it pools in a unified silken mass of black and red covering the pillows; no lace or camellias dot her form; and one gracile arm peeks out unclothed from the covers to lie, palm-up, beside her head.

>[ ] Wake her up (In what manner?)

>[ ] Let her sleep, and find something else to do with your morning. (What?)
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>>3655924
>Oh, so is Alberich at the peak of his natural potential when it comes to fighting skill now?
Basically, if you had trained for an entire human lifetime using those gloves, you'd have reached the point you're at now. That doesn't mean you're incapable of improving now, just that the benefit the gloves would have given you if you'd remained more human have been granted to you as an advance.
>>3656246
On reflection, the (In what manner?) should be (Write in how). I wanted to give you folks the opportunity to have some fun with this, since sibling wake-up scenes are a classic moment.
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>>3656246
>[ ] Let her sleep, and find something else to do with your morning. (Go experiment with Heilig outside)
Let her sleep, she's been through quite a bit.
Also, time to try summoning Pegasus.
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>>3656256
Actually no.
I want to show off to her when we do that.
So...
>>3656246
Switch to
>[ ] Wake her up (Sit on the side of the bed, attempt to gently nudge her awake)
What could possibly go wrong.
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>>3656246
You'd think his experience with Adelheid will have taught Alberich to let sleeping fe(male) servants lie.
>[ ] Let her sleep, and find something else to do with your morning. (Prepare breakfast for the as-of-yet asleep Ayaka and Tsubaki)
I know this will seem dreadfully wasteful to some, but I'd like some cooking autism myself. We also need practice for our inevitable confrontation with Shirou.
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>>3656273
Didn't Ogawara literally tell us not to try cooking during Akeldama?
Alberich is actually pretty terrible at cooking.
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>>3656281
>Alberich is actually pretty terrible at cooking.
He won't fuck up the coffee at least. Besides, what sort of man runs away from something just because he failed at it once? Surely there are some cookbooks about that we can utilize to get that ability up. Also, that was after getting a hand chopped off.
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>>3656273
Also, Adelheid isn't a massive otaku that thinks they are living in an anime.
She also isn't our (useless) sister.
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>>3656286
He'd do better with a tutor.
Nobody wants Alberich's barely passable breakfast.
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>>3656273

I'll support this, WE MUST SURPASS THE SWORD IN COOKING DAMNIT
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>>3656289
>Wake up to marginally decent breakfast in bed with amazing coffee
You know it's the best plan
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>>3656269
Supporting this.
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>>3656290

Ogawara just preferred Circe's food, because shit she's a great cook. Now we give our attempt at making a good breakfast damnit
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>>3656246
>[ ] Wake her up (Sit on the side of the bed, attempt to gently nudge her awake)
>>3656281
>Alberich is actually pretty terrible at cooking.
Who needs to cook when you can summon ambrosia from the reverse side of the world?
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>>3656294
>marginally decent breakfast
>cooked by man who has cooked single thing in his entire life
The coffee would be great, but we can just make a coffee for her if she's still sleepy after waking her up. That way we don't need to show our lack of skill at cooking.
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>>3656246
>[ ] Wake her up (In what manner?)
Dump cold water on her
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>>3656323
You monster.
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Here's the bit you're referencing, by the way. Ogawara was not a fan of that dinner.
>As you're cleaning up your place and getting ready to go, he walks up and puts a hand on your shoulder. In a low voice, he says, "Y-Yumigawa-san, I, ah..." He looks for the words for a moment before finishing, "I think you should just, ah, leave the cooking to me if C-Caster's busy again, a-alright?"
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>>3656331
Shit, we need to go kidnap the real Ogawara to cook for us because Caster is busy asleep.
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>>3656331
also
>when your cooking was so bad it makes the most socially awkward member of the group work up the courage to tell you not to do it again
God damn it.
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>>3656246
>[ ] Wake her up (Nudge her with your foot, get progressively more...adamant as time goes on.)
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By the way, Sweets. What WOULD have happened if we woke Adelheid up?
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>>3656366
Remember that time we tried to duel Adelheid? That, just more comically.
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>>3656366
Pretty much what >>3656380 said.
She'd have yelled at you and/or exploded you out of her room, then gone back to sleep.
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>>3656384
Surely Tsubaki wouldn't do the same, right?
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>>3656428
react in a similar way*
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>>3656428
Not everyone has the same response to being woken up.
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>>3656428
I mean, she's unlikely to be able to.
Magic Resistance is bullshit.
And even if she used her oni strength she's unlikely to become stronger than us, unless it temporarily gives her A rank strength.
Also she'd literally be waking up to some fucking anime scene.
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>>3656246
>[ ] Let her sleep, and find something else to do with your morning. (Go and play with your sword)
Meh, we can talk to her when she wakes up by herself, and we should let her save energy.
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>>3656534
Yeah, that's a good point. The less active she is, the better.
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>>3656552
Yes but we want to help her out of the NEET lifestyle she seems to have taken to.
It's our duty as her brother to do so.
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>>3656558
Not when the overexertion could kill her. Before we can make her do anything significant we have to fix up a supply for her.
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>>3656562
>overexertion could kill her
She's just being lazy.
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>>3656562
Also to set up a mana supply for her then we actually need to wake her up so we can go about preparing to do something about it.
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Gonna switch >>3656297 to Gacha Experiments.
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>>3656714
>tying the vote
Pls no
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>>3656720
Seriously? Fine, we'll nudge her awake.
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>>3656734
No, do it. Then Sweets will finally have to roll the dice, of only to see who wins
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>>3656741
But then there's a chance we get cooking
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>>3656741
There have been day-long ties before, anon.
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>>3656747
And a chance to fail that too.
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>>3656741
>Sweets will finally have to roll the dice
You underestimate my resolve, anon. This is a diceless quest!
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Nursing seems boring, desu. She's nowhere near strong enough to pin/pull us into an awkward position.
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>>3657011
Nudging*
Every day, I get closer to getting a new computer...
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>>3657011
You can always suggest another method.
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>>3657018
I can't think of one at the moment, just hindsight on my part.
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>>3656301

I'm gonna make the switch to sword gacha
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>>3657063
Just pray that we don't end up like Gudako.
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>>3657063
And now it's tied up.
Too bad, I had a good idea for the scene going.
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>>3656246
>[ ] Let her sleep, and find something else to do with your morning. (What?)
Summon some shit!
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Putting aside the specific details of method and/or what you do after leaving, we have five total votes for waking her up and four for letting her sleep.
I'm going to call it for waking her up and have you do a run-off vote on method, because I want to get another update written tonight and it's 22:40.
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>>3656246
>[ ] Wake her up (In what manner?)
Softly blow in her ear while holding her hand.
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>>3657087
Poke her cheek.
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>>3657090
I doubt Alberich would be so forward with Tsubaki.
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>>3657114
Probably but I am thinking about possible Desire gains here.
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So what are we going to do with her?
Our choices are:
>work on vaisset's notes
>see what she can do with imaginary elements after we make some
>Tool Creation: B
>try to find the rest of the gang
Also, I think Sweets ranked her ritual NP down from A+ to A.
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>>3657170
We have to wake her up, first.
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>>3657090
...are you serious
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>>3657170
We can also get Kōrakuhime to help Ayaka with her magic and learn it ourselves. From description she gave us it should be very powerful in hands of powerful magus.
>>3657181
Actually not. Ear whispering to wake her up is as far as I can imagine it could go.
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>>3657195
>Ear whispering
See, that's more reasonable. Maybe add some nudging but I'll support it either way.
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Previous tally was wrong. Missed the change vote.

Nudge her awake (with your hand)
>>3656269
>>3656310

Nudge her awake (with your foot, not so gently)
>>3656358

Cold water
>>3656323

Handholding and whispering
>>3657090
>>3657203
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Do you know how we can wake our dear beloved sister up?

By summoning things. I know my ass would get up at a Griffon or a Wyvern were to scream.
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>>3657172
Well, duh. I'm asking what we'll do afterward.
>>3657195
I'm not sure if Kourakuhime can teach her how to use the Shijou magecraft, because Ayaka is too soft to learn it.
Also, I don't know if we can learn it, because our mindset might be incompatible with the philosophy after having begun to use Continental methods -- the KnK pamphlet mentions that practitioners of Western magecraft are incompatible with Chinese philosophies.
Not to mention that Ayaka may not want us to learn Shijou methods for various reasons: to preserve the mysteries, because it's private, because we don't have Shijou blood that we might need to execute it properly.

However, if these don't impede us we should definitely learn the sacrificial ritual at the least.
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>>3657257
Put me back to nudge.
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>>3657257
I'll vote to nudge her awake with our hand.
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>>3657265
That should close the vote.
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We could have also threaten her with serving her breakfast in bad if she does not wake up.
But thats romcom tier.
Lets hope nudging also gives good amount of affection points to win loyalties.
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>>3657280
that's incest
>inb4 "no blood relations"
It's conceptual incest.
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You spend a few moments looking down at Kōrakuhime, observing her peaceful slumber; the way the blankets move, ever so slightly, in time with her breathing; the way her black lashes occasionally twitch in response to some action of a dream. It may be for the best to simply leave her here, to sleep as long as she likes. After all, Circe told you that a Servant possesses the ability to decide how long they'll sleep before doing so, and you know from your time supporting Circe and Adelheid together that sleep lessens a Servant's magical energy needs. That hasn't been your experience with sleep, but it could be that each Servant differs in this manner. For a Masterless Servant such as Kōrakuhime to be sleeping in may in fact be a plan on her part to minimize the need for hunting.

"Mnya... Ani-ue..." Is she sleeptalking? You lean in closer, curious to hear what the world of dreams has in store for your sister. "Really?" she mumbles, "I can just... stay here and watch, and you'll... -t everyone down and win for us? I was... 'd come through, Ani-ue, you're so..."

No, you were wrong to think of her as a respectable Servant. What comes out of her mouth is a jumbled mess of words, pauses, and the sound of breathing, but the general meaning is clear enough. This is a continuation of Ogawara, who spent the entirety of the Akeldama Grail War hiding away and doing research while listening to idol music. There's no reason to leave this lazy creature to spend all morning in bed. The fact that her archaic dialect is gone from her sleeptalking is also telling.

You sit down beside the sleeping girl, pondering how best to wake her. The idea of dumping cold water appeals for a moment, after the ridiculous contents of her dream, but that impulse fades rapidly. You'd only be setting yourself up for conflict, and there's no real reason to be so harsh with someone over the uncontrollable contents of a dream. The idea of teasing her by whispering into her ear is the next to cross your mind, but you have to dismiss it as impractical. You remember reading once (or rather, Yumigawa Rushorou remembers), that whispering to someone while they sleep can influence their dreams; that method might only send her deeper into her slumber, rather than taking her out of it.

Finally you decide to go the direct route. You lean over and poke her on the cheek. It's quite soft, you notice, with a texture not unlike mochi. You wouldn't expect such a thing, looking at her; her complexion, like your own, gives the impression of hard sculpture. It's polished china in her case and marble in yours, but the inhumanity is equal. Touching that skin, though, it feels no less soft and warm than Adelheid's or Circe's.
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As you're pondering on the contrast between appearance and texture, you continue nudging your sister's cheek to little effect. Her brows crease and the tranquil expression on her face vanishes, but she doesn't seem to be waking up. Eventually she makes an incoherent, petulant sound and rolls onto her side, unconsciously turning away from your hand. As she does so, the blankets shift to display her unclothed back, shoulders, and the nape of her neck. You flush slightly at this demonstration of Kōrakuhime's nudity, but you're determined not to waver. You will get some productive discussion out of this girl.

Waking her up will apparently require a firmer touch, however. You take Kōrakuhime by the shoulders and turn her back over, so she's on her back and facing you again. You prod her cheek a few more times, just to see if it will work any better now, and finally say, "Kōrakuhime, wake up. It's morning, and we need to talk," in a sort of stage whisper. You're speaking loud enough to wake the girl here, but quietly enough to make sure your voice doesn't carry and disturb Ayaka's sleep. This seems to have finally done the trick. Kōrakuhime's eyes flutter open and she looks at you blearily for a few moments.

"Ani-ue...?" She still sounds half-asleep. Then, before you can respond, she blinks a few more times, looks down, and suddenly goes beet red. "What are you doing in here?!" she shouts, sitting up and gathering her blankets tighter about herself to substitute for clothing. Her eyes dart terrifiedly about the room as if looking for more intruders, but finding none she continues her interrogation of you. "D-d-don't you have any sense of shame? Don't you know never to enter someone's room while they're asleep? Are you a maid?" She really seems furious. The questions are coming out rapid-fire, with none of the usual careful pauses that characterize Kōrakuhime's speech. You try to think of something to say that will calm down the situation, but neither you nor Yumigawa has found yourself in a situation like this before.

>[ ] "This isn't the time to be getting emotional," you snap. "I needed to speak with you, and you were asleep! Now, what we ought to be discussing is (topic)." (Pride)

>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about (topic). Would you like some time to get dressed?" (Compassion)

>[ ] "Right! Sorry! Come out when you're ready to talk about (topic)," you manage, dodging thrown pillows as you beat a hasty retreat from the room. (Self-Preservation)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)

And, please tell me what it is you'd most like to discuss with Kōrakuhime now that she's awake.
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>>3657356
A nice mix of a condescending
>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded,"
and finish off with a serious
>"I needed to speak with you, and you were asleep! Now, what we ought to be discussing is the method of you gaining mana and how you are going to change that."

also mention that by using her(his) methods they have already put a target on their back.
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>>3657356
>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about (topic). Would you like some time to get dressed?" (Compassion)
Finding her a suitable alternative mana source.

>"Really?" she mumbles, "I can just... stay here and watch, and you'll... -t everyone down and win for us? I was... 'd come through, Ani-ue, you're so..."
Hahahaha. Never has Alberich's respect been lost this fast.
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>>3657362
+1.
The list of things we need to do with her from highest to lowest priority is:
>get a source of magical energy
>set up defences
>figure out elemental transmutation
>make some hidden weapons
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>>3657369
If Tsubaki wants us to be her "Ani-ue" then we should gladly play that roll of a firm strict older brother if you fuck up but still care for them.
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>>3657374
Your suggestion seems perfect if we want to be hit by thrown pillows.
She hasn't fucked up, anyway.
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>>3657356
>>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about (topic). Would you like some time to get dressed?" (Compassion)
Just play it cool like an actual responsible person would.
>(topic)
Mana sources and application of her skills as Caster with our own magic studies, house defences and Vaisset`s notes.
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>>3657381
We also know that subconsciously, she has accepted us as her elder brother.

And that she thinks we're the strongest in the world and that we won't lose to anyone.
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>>3657381
>Has not fucked up
>Has gone around eating entire families and burning down their houses while leaving a lot of ways to trace back to her

Sure.
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>>3657410
She took the best course of action she could think of.
Was it short-sighted?
Yes.
Did it somehow work out incredibly well in her favour?
...Yes.
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>>3657410
She said it herself, it was that or poison everyone in Tokyo by dipping into the leyline.
>>3657420
>Luck: A++
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>>3657420
Affections of an Elder Brother: A strong.
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>>3657423
It's only A+ now.
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>>3657425
I'd hate to be the magus who summons her in a future grail war.
>"Caster, how do you suggest we win this war?"
>"I think... we should do nothing... Ani-ue will win for me."
>"YOUR BROTHER ISN'T HERE CASTER."
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>>3657452
>Dependent Action: A+
>A skill signifying dependence upon an ally. Caster is incapable of acting independently and must be explicitly compelled to do anything, but those who take action in their place will gain plus modifiers as needed to succeed with minimal support from Caster.
>Since engaging in the Grail War is also a bothersome task, this skill increases both the cost of maintaining Caster's existence and the reserves of their Master.
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>>3657452
>Actual Heroic Spirit Kourakuhime gets an EX rank Noble Phantasm that summons Alberich.
>*Warning: Master's command spells will not work on Alberich, Alberich will want the wish for himself, Alberich might attempt world domination*
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Attempted filling in the blanks of her sleeptalk.

>"Mnya... Ani-ue...Really? I can just... stay here and watch, and you'll (cut) everyone down and win for us? I was (so scared?/relieved?/happy?), (I knew you'd) come through, Ani-ue, you're so (???(Reliable?))"

Alternatively it could be "I was sure you'd come through"
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>>3657356
>[ ] "This isn't the time to be getting emotional," you snap. "I needed to speak with you, and you were asleep! Now, what we ought to be discussing is (Finding Mana, Scrying for Circe and Adelheid, helping us with magical studies and research)" (Pride)
What shame should either of them have in their nude forms?
They are perfect specimens of inhuman beauty. May the world look upon their visage and be awestruck.
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>>3657356
>[ ] "This isn't the time to be getting emotional," you snap. "I needed to speak with you, and you were asleep! Now, what we ought to be discussing is (topic)." (Pride)
Energy sources
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>>3657362
>>3657356
Support
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>all these anons voting to be mean to Tsubaki after she accidentally revealed her faith in us
But why?
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>>3657685
Not mean, stern. The three things a little sister needs are exercise, affection and discipline.
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>>3657685
>Mean
It's not like we're calling her worthless NEET trash or something
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>>3657686
>>3657687
We know she doesn't like us losing our cool and shouting. Also she's embarrassed and being condescending towards her won't really help our relationship with her.
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>>3657695
We have some very important things to talk about, and it's just terrible that she's trying to use us as her crutch even after she became a Servant.
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>>3657356
>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about (topic). Would you like some time to get dressed?" (Compassion)

Be good to family.
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>>3657701
>it's just terrible that she's trying to use us as her crutch even after she became a Servant
This I also must disagree with. On a practical level, her having a dependent mindset more firmly secures her to our side. Better a lackey than a loose cannon.
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>>3657686
The problem is from how she described Oguwara's home situation he lacked affection.
Tsubaki on the other hand hasn't shown a bothersome lack of exercise or discipline.
>>3657701
Would you rather she smugly does her own thing without caring much about what we want?
I'm just happy that she apparently hasn't changed as much as her playing would have me believe and still won't be troublesome to lead.
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>>3657701
>It's just terrible
How is it possible to be this wrong?
She's got high faith in her brother who has already won a grail war.
It's not bad to be relied on.
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>>3657695
We're not losing our cool, I'm getting the idea that she kind of needs a stern influence to be motivated for anything though
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>>3657356
>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about (topic). Would you like some time to get dressed?" (Compassion)
Talk about a magical energy source. Can't have our sister starving to death just after our reunion.

>"I can just... stay here and watch, and you'll... -t everyone down and win for us? I was... 'd come through, Ani-ue, you're so..."
I can't tell if she truly has no idea what she's in for as our Caster or if she's just having an idealized dream knowing what's to come. At least she thinks we're reliable.

>>3657701
>it's just terrible that she's trying to use us as her crutch
It was just a dream. It's not likely that's her aim, since she was reluctant to come with us to begin with.
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>>3657714
She's literally lived with a stern family throughout her memories as Ogawara and it turned her evil.
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>>3657714
Where do you get that? As Oguwara she happily did the jobs we gave her. At the moment you are just harsh to her for no real reason besides sleeping longer than we thought and we didn't exactly tell her when she should be awake.
I more get the impression that she lacked familial affection and fled into fantasy worlds and anime as a consequence.
>>3657717
>It was just a dream. It's not likely that's her aim, since she was reluctant to come with us to begin with.
Even if it was her aim as long as she does what we tell her to do she will more than pull her own weight here.
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>>3657356
Gotta agree with the others.
>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about finding you an alternative energy source. Would you like some time to get dressed?"
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>>3657726
That's all I mean by being stern, she needs to be told to do stuff. We can be stern without being mean. Ogawara didn't do much without being asked if I remember right
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>>3657745
I think being nice and asking will have a better effect on her than being stern and telling.
Kourakuhime is somebody who was effectively denied familial affection.
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>>3657747
Carrot and stick, anon.
First we're strict, and when she does a good job we're nice to her.
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>>3657757
We should at least try the carrot first.
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>>3657757
You realize that carrot and stick refers to punishment for bad behavior and rewards for good behavior and not punishment for no good reason?
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>>3657757
But she is also that kind of a person who unused to affection, people being nice to her and generaly friendly attitude. It is craftier to use this parts of her character to make her do that we want and save straightforward attitude to Matsuda who will appreciate it much more.
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Kourakuhime interactions with Alberich
>first person she ever talked to in her life
>Rushorou was a clear natural leader who led them to relative safety
>Rushorou summoned the best type of Servant to keep everyone safe
>Rushorou became more than human
>Rushorou prioritized his allies life over killing an enemy
>Rushorou quickly creates an alliance with a potential enemy
>Rushorou finds excellent base of operations
>Rushorou only asks you to research his enemies
>Rushorou is a terrible cook
>Rushorou makes sure everyone gets to shelter before the final battle, which he wins with no losses on his side.
>after Akeldama, continually scry on Alberich
>Alberich finds you, prepare for the worst
>"Wait are we siblings? Come with me."
Other than his inability to cook, Rushorou would appear as one of the most reliable people ever.
He also brews an excellent cup of coffee.
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>>3657785
>all those pros
This could go into brocon territory real quick.
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>>3657785
So now we just need to motivate her to be as reliable as us.

Honestly it might be too soon to call her lazy but I'm just working with what little we've seen of her so far.
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>>3657790
Brave of you to assume it hasn't already.
>>3657791
>motivate her to be as reliable as us
Haha. That's gonna be difficult.
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>>3657806
>Brave of you to assume it hasn't already.
Not until the masturbation scene.
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>>3657850
She's already dreaming about us, anon.
She's also been watching us for days.
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>>3657874
Not. Until. The Interlewd.
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>>3657891
But this is a Fate quest, for such a thing to occur, Sweets would have to ask one of the edit anons to write it.
As is tradition.
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>>3657949
If it comes to that I'll write it and post the pastebin myself. If I'm awake and free, that is.
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To recap this grail war.
>CASTER IS JUDAS
>Caster summoned 5 extra servants by sacrificing himself
>2 Casters, 2 Berserkers (most likely) and a Saber
>one of the Casters easily knows more about magic than pretty much anybody else in the entire world
>Death toll of war (before it even fucking begins lmao) = 1000+ people, 100 of which were magi, higher number than any of the Fuyuki Grail Wars death count
>Three of the summoned servants have evil alignments
>ONE IS HITLER
>Extra Caster is going around eating people
>Berserker is stupidly broken
>Somebody accidentally invited a magus killer to the party
>He immediately kills the Second Owner
>True Saber is still partially messed up from being MUDDED in the last war
>Extra Saber absorbed some of Rider
>The Einzbern probably summoned some bullshit
>Extra Berserker is doing something somewhere probably
>Akeldama Caster and Berserker are also doing something somewhere probably
>4 Servants are alive and not heroic spirits
>5 Servants are theoretically already allied with each other with very little chance of betrayal
>Fuyuki Rider, a Sorcerer's Apprentice, Sword and Imitation Holy Grail have decided to get involved to stop the war.
>Extra Caster and Extra Saber have teamed up already.
Antaglio is going to have a fucking stroke.
It's a grail war alright.
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>>3657976
>>Somebody accidentally invited a magus killer to the party
He was the one sent officially. Lumenza was the surprise.
And you forgot:
>The gnostics were right about judas
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>>3657982
I know he was officially sent but you'd think they'd institute a Magus Killer ban after the Fourth.
At least nobody summoned Gilgamesh.
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>>3657986
>At least nobody summoned Gilgamesh.
Yet.
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>>3657986
>archer is casgil larping as a greek hero
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>>3657993
Can't wait for unlimited Gil screeching when Enkidu gets cut in half.
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>>3657995
>casgil
just regular Archer Gil, I meant
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>>3657999
>Gil being strong enough to fire a bow with his noodle arms.
No.
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>>3657356
>[ ] "I am sorry to have intruded," you say in a placating tone. "I just wanted to speak with you about (topic). Would you like some time to get dressed?" (Compassion)
Finding the others and a mana source for her.
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>>3658002
>Strength: B
is it mongrel season today or what
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>>3658009
>loses to autistic japanese highschooler
>loses to autistic japanese highschooler's autistic japanese highschooler girlfriend
>loses to autistic jobber king (female)

Sad!
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>>3658016
It was his A-Ranked Luck overturning his destiny to always win forever.
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>>3658016
>loses to autistic jobber king (female)
Anon, thats our maid you are talking about!
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>>3658028
Should she have a position in addition to chief maid?
She is a powerful warrior, after all.
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So are we agreed that we ought to start working with Lily? The only issue is that she has to contact us since we don't know how to reach her.
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>>3658097
The Once and Future Maid is perfect candidate for role of a caretaker for our beloved Bewitching Divinity of Calamitous Death. Kōrakuhime even asked us about maid waking her up already. A perfect fit.
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>>3658115
Or we ask our Caster to scry where she is.
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>>3658122
I'm willing to bet that she'd have defenses against scrying but it's worth a shot for sure
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>>3657806
>Operation Ogawara Waifu 2: Brocon Boogaloo
God help us.

>>3658115
>we don't know how to reach her
I wouldn't be so sure. If we want to talk to her, it shouldn't be hard to arrange.
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>>3657452
Reverse Ushiwakamaru. I love it.

>>3657458
This is hilarious.
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>>3657850
>>3657891
Just to reiterate, I don't write smut. Not happening.
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>>3658285
No rolls, no smut. I admire the straight-edge quest.
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>>3658285
>>3658306
I have very strong imagination and I am not afraid to use it.
I am already in the process of creating mental images of light ecchi Kōrakuhime`s cooking off-shot anime and nobody can stop me.
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>>3658285
That said, if we do wind up with a fade-to-black scene at some point and someone sufficiently Takeuchi-like steps up to write a Fate quality scene, I'll take it.
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>>3658324
>a Fate quality scene
Alberich seems like the kinda guy to dare a girl to say no
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>>3658285
Of course.
We need somebody with 0 aptitude for writing to create the smut scenes.
How else could we have baffling uses of similes and dialogue that violates the human language?
>>3658324
Ah, I see. You already understand.
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>>3658334
D E F E N S E L E S S
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>>3658341
>"The varying movements are like those of an educated prostitute."

>"The hot body that presses back is curved like a mollusk."
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>>3658359
I still can't wrap my head around the second one.
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>>3658320
>light ecchi Kōrakuhime`s cooking off-shot anime
The running gag is that she keeps slipping human ingredients into the food.
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>>3658368
Always thought it was pretty obvious analogy for S-like move from hips to head while maintaining general body connection.in a form of rubbing. Analogy is there because of waving moves associated with them.
But its been around decade since I read it so I might be misremembering in contest to rest of that scene.
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>>3658381
At least Circe has the decency to transform the humans she uses into animals first.
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>>3658381
It starts off with scene about quick shopping trip for supplies for dinner but it is actually local kindergarten instead of grocery store.
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>>3658402
>a kindergarten
>not an orphanage
Where the fuck is your brand loyalty?
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>>3658416
Orphan Juice went out of business over fifteen years ago old man, get with the times
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>>3658416
Are you saying that our sister would go for fast food option like some tasteless pleb and not for carefully grown, nourished and created with love homemade ingredients?
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>>3658426
Pfft, don't be stupid. Only the Fuyuki branch went bust because of Regional Director Gilgamesh's poor business decisions.
Orphan Juice is still the Magi's choice.
>>3658430
The despair improves the flavour you pleb. You think the King of Heroes would accept anything but the best?
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>>3658442
You see, that's the problem with you orphan juice people. You can't react to the changing reality of business. If director Gilgamesh cared more about quality rather than quantity in his noble phantasms, if he wasn't so pigheadedly set on forcing that merger with Saberface Incorporated, the company might have survived. "Orphan Juice is the Magi's choice". Don't make me laugh geezer.
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>>3658442
Phah! Brute way of thinking. It is sudden switch from love of their parents, bliss of happy normal life to sharp butcher`s cleaver in one emotionally filled trip of pain, despair and misery that makes it taste so sweet afterwards! A true chef and gourmet would have known it. Constant despair dulls the taste and those orphans and their charred dreams produce only most stale of emotions.
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Ok but jokes aside we need to ween Tsubaki off of eating people.
Friends not food.
Mostly.
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>>3658527
Of course. It's such an unreliable, attention-grabbing, and generally unsafe method of survival. It must be remedied.
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>>3658544
If we can make her into a better person, I do wonder if we could get Shirou not to sperge and attempt to execute her.
Because then we'd have to eye for an eye him and kill Sakura.
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>>3658582
>Kōrakuhime is the gate and the key to getting the Emiyas to violate the NAP, allowing us to get that sweet sacrificial energy without karmic backlash or alienating Ayaka
And to think, I was arguing to kill her earlier in the thread
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>>3658582
HF Shirou is him at his most tolerant.
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>>3658594
It's nice that we're dealing with HF Shirou.
Then again even Fate Shirou didn't really care that Illya murdered Shinji.
But... killing Shinji is actually a good thing.
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>>3658619
>killing Shinji is actually a good thing
Actually a great thing
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>>3658619
>>3658636
You shut your mouth! Shinji just...
He had a hard life, okay?
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>>3658636
Actually the best thing Illya has ever done.
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>>3658527
So what's our energy source gonna be? I think mana transfer should be off the table since it's not addressing the real issue of our current deficit
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>>3658640
Ilya murdered Shinji and later on Sakura (not knowing of this) became her bestest friend. Coincidence? I think not. Only best gorls murder worst boys.
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>>3658640
Wakame Paradise never ever.
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>>3658651
We'll have to think of something.
Making people into mana batteries is a possibility
Dragon is... risky, to say the least.
Leyline is too killy.
Allying Lily is a possibility.
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>>3658674
Ideally we could make contact with Lily soon. Then we can tell her that we've infiltrated a group of former Masters that want to destroy the Grail. We use them as allies to defeat berserker, then betray them to gain more trust with Lily who is actually necessary for endgame of the Grail War. We can use some kind of stopgap source of energy for Tsubaki until we betray the Emiyas and then use Sakura to fuel Tsubaki and then Matsuda, who we could probably find at any time via scrying.
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>>3658683
We'd also need Circe for the Sakura battery idea which I honestly can't believe I forgot to bring up. Also betraying them without using her as a battery is an option if Lily could supply Tsubaki but I think revealing Tsubaki would raise some questions about our true origin as well.
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>>3658713
We're not using Sakura as a battery.
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>>3658725
Maybe
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>>3658725
But you just said making people into mana batteries is a possibility. And Sakura would be the ultimate mana battery right? I get that she's nice but if it's between her and our sister then our sister wins out for me.
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>>3658738
Plus, you'd get the chance at a pretty nice powerup from taking out Rider of Fuyuki.
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>>3658751
Sweets is on the right side of history, as always
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>>3658738
But our other sister is effectively unlimited mana herself.
>>3658751
Well I guess we'll have to wait and see how the Emiya situation develops.
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"I am sorry to have intruded," you say, raising your hands in a placating gesture and ducking under a flying pillow, "but we need to discuss the issue of finding energy for you safely. Would you like some time to get dressed?"

"Of course!" Kōrakuhime doesn't seem placated, and isn't slowing her attack. Given the improbable quantity of cushions in the air, you suspect she may actually be manifesting the downy projectiles by magic. "Just get out!"

You dutifully retreat in the face of your sister's embarrassment and exit the room, only to find another angry face waiting outside the door. You may have been scrupulously quiet, but it seems that Kōrakuhime's shouting was too loud for Ayaka to sleep through.

"Saber-san," she says suspiciously, "who is behind that door?"

"Miss Ayaka, perhaps we should find somewhere to sit down and discuss this properly," you reply, gesturing down the hall towards the stairway.

"You know, it seems that I lost consciousness some time last night, while we were investigating the house where that Servant was attacking people," Ayaka says, ignoring your suggestion. "I had a bizarre dream, then, where you found some woman Servant and claimed she was your sister; and that she'd been the one killing people. Isn't that weird, Saber-san?"

"Excellent," you say cheerily. "It seems you have a grasp on the situation. The Servant causing the fires was my sister, a Caster. I brought her home with us to help her find a way to survive without needing to take her energy directly from the populace."

"How do you have a sister?" Ayaka snaps. "Yumigawa-senpai doesn't have any siblings. You were created by Caster's ritual, right? So how can you have a sister?"

"It would seem that there were in fact three heroes created by Caster," you explain in a firm tone, taking Ayaka by the shoulders and leaning down to look directly into her eyes. You've noticed that this kind of close eye-contact usually quiets her down. "I spoke with the fragment of his spirit that lies within mine this morning, and confirmed the situation. Akeldama brought three new Servants into the world in exchange for the large-scale sacrifice that took place within it. Given the unusual nature of my existence, I regard the other two as something like my siblings. Behind that door is Caster, Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime, who was forced to feed on human lives because she lacked the good fortune to be summoned with a Master, as I was. I intend to help her."
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"Well, if you put it like that, I guess we don't really have a choice," Ayaka says, the hostility in her tone fading as she blushes and looks away from you. "I guess it was only mundanes, and it's not like there were any witnesses," she mutters. Then, regaining some of her confidence, she continues in a more normal tone, "I'm going down to get some breakfast ready. Be down in about a half-hour if you want to eat, alright?" With that, she turns and walks off without giving you time to respond. The emotions of a teenage girl are truly like a storm, you reflect. Then you turn back to Kōrakuhime's door and knock.

"You may... enter now," comes the soft voice. It seems your sister, too, has gotten her emotions and mode of speech back to normal. You enter to find Kōrakuhime, fully dressed in the same flowery outfit as last night, sitting on the side of her bed. The bed itself has been neatly made, and all traces of the earlier storm of cushions have vanished from the room as well. It's returned to being the picture of well-kept luxury. She gestures to an armchair opposite her. "Please... sit."

You take a seat, giving Kōrakuhime a level stare. "Last night, you told me that the only way for you to survive was by hunting the people of this city," you declare. "This is unworkable. The Master of Berserker, a spellcaster by the name of Emiya, and my own Master all detected a pattern in your actions and undertook to track you down and eliminate you as a threat to the secrecy of magic. It was only by your good fortune that I, rather than a Servant willing to cut you down, was the one to find you. We need to find another way for you to get the energy that you need."

"Only my... good fortune, you say?" Kōrakuhime gives you one of her tiny smiles. "You misunderstand, Ani-ue. I... chose your Master as the one to find me. I am sure you have... come to understand, by now, that I was observing your actions... by magic. Once I was... certain that she would not compel you to attack me, it was a simple matter to prepare a... 'clue' that would draw her to it and lead the two of you to me."

"I see." So the magic on that plate fragment wasn't just a trace of Kōrakuhime's work on the house, but an actual enchantment. Interesting. "All the same," you continue, "one of the other Masters could have tracked you down in some other way. What would you have done if you'd been caught by Berserker or Rider?"

"I must then have... fled, and hidden away," Kōrakuhime answers with a frown. "I... realize that my method was not perfect, but as we discussed last night, it was the most appropriate available to me. However," she continues, brightening again, "now that we are... cooperating, things can be improved! With your help I can... hunt in a far more efficient and discreet manner."
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You heave a sigh. "Listen to me," you say. "You cannot continue to survive by hunting and eating the people of Tokyo. Even if you change your method, those who have become aware of the pattern of burned houses will notice the continuing disappearances and keep looking for you. We have to find a different way."

"What do... you have in mind, then, Ani-ue," Kōrakuhime says, giving you a hurt look. "Do you plan to... share the mystic energy you receive from your own Master with me... and multiply the strain on her? Or perhaps you would rather... distribute the cost over all the city's people, having me siphon power from the leylines here? Do you have... some other suggestion?"

It certainly is a tricky question. You realize now how fortunate you were in the Akeldama, having enough magic circuits to support two Servants without difficulty. The strain on Ayaka would certainly be greater. You ponder the subject for a while, before...

>[ ] ...deciding there's nothing for it but to divide the energy you receive from Ayaka between you two, the way you had Adelheid draw energy from you before you modified your command spell. (Compassion/Duty)

>[ ] ...deciding to pursue the leyline concept in more detail. How much can nine million people be hurt by the energy burden of one Servant? (Self-Preservation)

>[ ] ...asking if there isn't some way to draw energy out of people without killing them or being bound to them by command spells. Emiya's wife was able to support a Servant without a Holy Grail War for fifteen years, after all. (Pride)

>[ ] ...saying something else (Write in)
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>>3659041
>>[ ] ...asking if there isn't some way to draw energy out of people without killing them or being bound to them by command spells. Emiya's wife was able to support a Servant without a Holy Grail War for fifteen years, after all. (Pride)

Time to start an orphan factory.
Killing is inefficient.
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>>3659041
Can we link her to the energy of the imaginary numbers realm through our sword? It's worth discussing at least. The imaginary realm doesn't actively resist the existence of beings like us. I don't know if there's anything to this idea but that'd be convenient.
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We should get into contact with Lily.
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>>3659077
You don't know if that's possible, or how it would work, but you can suggest it.
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>>3659077
Now this isn't a terrible idea.
If she can draw energy through from the Realm of Imaginary Numbers, it will make things much easier.
The blade is permanently an open portal anyway.
We should ask at least.
Gives a segue into showing off the second miracle and trying to summon a pegasus, too.
I mean, if the Gods can sustain themselves there, a little energy borrowing can't hurt.
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>>3659041
Let's suggest >>3659077 to Kōrakuhime. She's the caster after all. If this gets instantly no-sold, opt my vote towards

>[ ] ...deciding to pursue the leyline concept in more detail. How much can nine million people be hurt by the energy burden of one Servant? (Self-Preservation)
We're in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. If there's ANYWHERE this can be done, it must be here.
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>>3659131
But of course the questions are:
a) can the energy pass through the portal
b) does it take the same form in this realm as in the other
and
c) can it be used to sustain a Servant in the same way that real-number energy can
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>>3659077
>>3659131
We should ask the Gods first.
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>>3659138
Well she has divinity, and we can summon divine-ish beings and maintain their existence here. So the only difference would be that we don't have to bring her from the IR to our realm.
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>>3659143
First we ask her if, in her estimation, it's at all possible. From there we can ask the Gods if they're ok with it.
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We'll need to have her examine the normal process of summoning with a trial run, with her Caster-tier understanding of magic she could probably figure out if this is a dead end idea. We need to try it out anyway.
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>>3659153
It's a two birds with one stone idea.
1) we summon Pegasus using the second magic and determine how it's being supplied energy
2) Caster observes the process to see if she can't link herself to said energy supply
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>>3659179
>second magic
Second miracle, whoops.
Big distinction.
The jewel sword would make our life much easier.
Rin.
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>>3659179
Three birds, as this method of energy supply necessarily creates the tangible bond to Alberich I was demanding earlier in thread. It's quite the elegant solution (if it's a workable solution at all)
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>>3659192
It also means we don't have to be as evil if it works.
Hooking up Tsubaki to an energy supply like that means no more needing to eat people which could lead to a peaceful resolution of the Emiya question.
I'd much prefer sparing them if it's at all possible.
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>>3659221
We're potentially killing a lot of fucking birds here
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>>3659228
Will our dreams be crushed?
Who knows?
But...
>>3659055
Switch to
>Ask Caster about whether Heiligoffnungschwert could be of use in gathering energy, informing her of the nature of the blade and the second miracle in particular. If the idea proves fruitless, suggest taking energy from larger groups of people without killing them.
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Page 9 already?
Is /qst/ more active lately?
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>>3659374
No, you niggas just talk a whole lot about nothing.
It's kinda incredible and unironically one of the best parts of this quest.
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>>3659041
>>3659077
Btw I wanna check out this possibility, and if that fails or leads to nothing
>[ ] ...asking if there isn't some way to draw energy out of people without killing them or being bound to them by command spells. Emiya's wife was able to support a Servant without a Holy Grail War for fifteen years, after all. (Pride)
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>page 9 in 24 hours
Jesus christ
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>>3659507
Weren't we at Page 7 like only yesterday?
What's going on?
>>3659393
Discussing this quest is fun.

Speaking of which. Do we make Rin a maid if we don't kill the Emiya faction?
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>>3659041
Supporting >>3659077
>>3659546
We don't do anything that makes Zelretch look in our direction.
That means we don't do anything visible or suspicious to his apprentice.
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>>3659634
....
So no killing the Emiyas?
Because if we kill one the entire faction will stop at nothing for revenge.

...
Chances are that Zelretch is already watching.
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>>3659665
We'll become a hated enemy when we betray them anyway? And we have to betray them.
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When should we scry for Circe, Adelheid, and Matsuda? I think it should be a priority after the energy supply issue is handled.
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>>3659688
We play our cards right and we can become a reluctant enemy at worst.

Also, "I've got two Casters and the support of the lesser grail, should the grail be messed up, I'll just have to have them disable it." Or some shit.

It's not impossible to have them bow out.
Also they won't really have a choice if we get to our full strength with multiple servants supporting us.

Or just memory wipe them of the wars events.
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>>3659688
>And we have to betray them.
As the anon who has done his best to convince everyone that eating the Emiyas is the most utilitarian use of their underutilized magical energy, this idea pf drawing energy from the IN realm undercuts that. If Kōrakuhime can be sustained by the esoteric energies of that realm, who's to say a similar miracle couldn't be done for Alberich?
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>>3659763
I'm thinking that there has to be some kind of downside to using imaginary numbers realm energy if it even works in the first place. For example, the gods holding it over our heads and making us do their bidding while we're sustained by their realm. It's a great option for Matsuda and Tsubaki since they don't have the good fortune of a Master supplying them. True incarnation is the only way to truly live free, I imagine.
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>>3659792
>For example, the gods holding it over our heads and making us do their bidding while we're sustained by their realm.
While personally bad for Alberich, that WOULD make for a compelling final season of the quest....
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>>3659806
It's probably the second best option that's been discussed, behind true incarnation obviously. I'd call it a fallback option at best
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>>3659827
I can already see it.

Alberich: the Victor of False and True Grail Wars,the Saber of Imaginary Numbers, the Last Hero, and the Herald of the Gods.

Imagine how FUN it would be to be the harbringer of the second age of the gods- to be the enemy of the whole modern world.
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>>3659507
>>3659546
It does seem like there's been an uptick in the number of shitpost quests posted in the last couple of days.
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>>3657720
stern but overly caring.
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>>3660206
Interesting. How'd you get "overly caring" from what she's said?
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>>3660206
>>3660218
Yeah, they were aloof if anything.
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>>3660218
No I mean we should be stern but overly caring towards Tsubaki.

Anyways I am still down for summoning a dragon with our sword. Mostly because I want to cause chaos.
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>>3660235
Yeah, let's sic not only the Mage Association but the Church on us, at once. Also all the enemy Masters. And the dragon itself.
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>>3660242
If we kill the dragon and absorb its power no mortal could stop us. If anything we can just say it was the Judas inside us and that after killing the dragon we got rid of Judas.
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You ponder on the subject for a while, eventually realizing that you do in fact have another suggestion: Heiligöffnungschwert, and its ability to open portals between this world and the Realm of Imaginary Numbers. If the Imaginary Number Realm is able to sustain the existence of the gods, you reason, there must be a far higher concentration of Mana there than there is on earth. Given that the edge of the blade is a constantly open portal to that Realm, perhaps it would be possible for Kōrakuhime to draw the energy she needs from there, rather than the leylines of Tokyo.

"I realize you've been observing me while I fight," you say, "but how much exactly do you understand about the function of my sword?"

"Very little," Kōrakuhime answers. "You have not exactly... stopped to explain it to someone. All that I have been able to surmise... is its general function as a weapon."

"I see. My Noble Phantasm, Heiligöffnungschwert, has three properties," you begin. "First, it has the power to open portals to the Realm of Imaginary Numbers, also known as the Reverse Side of the World. It's that power that creates its cutting edge, as well as the projectiles I used against Berserker. The second power is t summon 'impossibilities' from that world, although I haven't yet experimented with it. I assume it refers to the mythical creatures that left earth with the end of the Age of Gods. Finally, it's able to render the elements of Void and Nothingness able to interact with the Five Great Elements, enabling me to make some use of elemental manipulation despite my affinity."

"A highly... versatile tool," Kōrakuhime replies, "but what can you be driving at?"

"Being a Caster, you must have acquired the magical knowledge necessary to understand the significance of the Reverse Side of the World," you say. "There, impossibly magical creatures such as dragons, basilisks, and such are able to continue existing; the amount of magical energy that world's Mana holds must vastly exceed that of earth! If you were to tap into that source through Heiligöffnungschwert's portal, rather than the local Mana here, would it not resolve your concerns about energy?"

The perfect solution you've presented should excite your sister. You were fully prepared for her to leap to her feet, make some delighted exclamation, and throw her arms around you, or have somesuch display of emotion. This does not occur. Kōrakuhime looks levelly at you and sighs.

"You... do not have a full understanding of magic, Ani-ue" she says, sounding supremely disappointed. "It would be... foolish for me to blame you for this, or to be disappointed in you. I realize you've been working hard to learn, while I was simply given an understanding along with my class. You have no more... reason to understand why that is an impossible plan than I have to grasp the finer points of... swordsmanship. Simply know that it is... quite impossible."
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"I have no intention of simply sitting here and being dismissed," you snap, incensed. Why should she speak to you this way without offering so much as a reason? You deserve an explanation, at the very least. "Tell me why the energy of my blade will be of no use to you!"

"Because it is not... the energy of your blade," Kōrakuhime answers, responding to your angry tone with irritation of her own. "But no, that is... not the proper manner..." she takes a deep breath, returning her expression to serenity. "There are three reasons why... your Noble Phantasm's power cannot aid me, if I am correctly understanding its function. But first, let me examine the blade and determine... whether or not I am correct."

You obediently hand over your sword, which seems comically large in the hands of the slight girl. She sets it flat on her lap, then draws a paper talisman from the sleeve of her furisode and presses it to Heiligöffnungschwert. A faint light transfuses the sword for several seconds, during which time Kōrakuhime stares intently at is. Once it fades, she returns your Noble Phantasm.

"It is... a truly bizarre construct," she says. "Truly the product of Imaginary magic; it is neither real nor unreal, but a strange... transitional thing." She blinks several times, then, and shakes her head as if to clear it. "Excuse me, Ani-ue, I was rambling," she says. "I was correct in my initial guess at its function, however. There are three reasons this tool cannot... supply me with sustenance."

"Very well then, explain," you say.

"To begin with... there is the matter of acquisition," Kōrakuhime says. "Generally, there are... three sources of energy we Servants can draw from. The first is the Od of our Master, through the connection... facilitated by the Holy Grail. I do not fully understand the details of this construct, as it is a... highly complex... artifact of European magic, but for the moment it is enough to say that... at the moment of summoning, a Servant has a direct... connection to the Holy Grail. The second source is the Od of other... humans, consumed directly with their... flesh and blood. This method, too, involves a direct connection. Finally, a Servant can draw energy from local Mana by enacting a formal ritual at some location on a leyline. In such a case, the ritual connects the Servant with the land. In all of these cases, you can see the... rule of connection. The Servant must... be in physical contact with the source of the energy in order to... establish a link."

"You're saying it would be impossible to draw energy through Heiligöffnungschwert without first traveling through its portal yourself," you summarize.

Kōrakuhime nods. "And that doesn't consider... the issue of the energy's own travel; one cannot draw energy from a leyline here in Japan after having traveled to America; who can say... whether the link would persist through your portal?"
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"I see; and that was only the first reason?" You ask the question wryly. At this point the hopelessness of the idea is fairly clear, and your anger at Kōrakuhime's dismissal has faded; but you may as well hear out the full details.

"Indeed; the second reason... is that of the portal's maintenance. From what I can... gather by examination of your Noble Phantasm, it requires more mystic energy from you... as the potency of its effects intensify. To continuously draw enough energy through a portal to support a Servant, even if such were entirely practical, might well... weigh as heavily upon your Master as if... she had tried simply to... support the two of us with her Od."

"And the third," you prompt, the humor gone from your tone. The thought of killing Ayaka with a method intended to remove her burden is a sobering one.

"It is... the most difficult of the three to explain," Kōrakuhime says with a sigh. "I felt it intuitively, as I examined this blade. The power on the other side of its portal feels... alien. Opposed to the Real Elements. Were I to take that power into myself, in place of the energy of this world, I think Gaia would intensify its resistance to my manifestation."

"A thoroughly dangerous concept, then," you muse. Fortunately, though, another idea has come to you as Kōrakuhime has been speaking. Her discourse on methods of energetic connection brought to mind the other Servant manifestation you've seen, particularly the Rider who fights beside Emiya. If she's been being sustained by Emiya's wife for the last fifteen years, it must be by some method outside of the Holy Grail's system; in other words, there must be a way of sustainably harvesting energy from a human while neither killing them nor creating a Master-Servant contract. And now it seems Kōrakuhime has shown you the method, as well.

"Let us put aside the idea of using Heiligöffnungschwert, then," you say. "I have another idea. Would it be possible to adapt the leyline ritual to a human?"

"...pardon?" Kōrakuhime looks at you blankly.

"From what I understand," you begin, "leylines are to the earth as magic circuits are to living humans; they channel Mana through the body of the planet in the same way that magic circuits channel Od, yes? In that case, it should be possible to use the same sort of magic ritual that you would use to draw Mana out of the land to draw mystic energy from a human's body, without killing them."

"Oh?" Kōrakuhime draws out her response as she considers the notion, as if tasting the idea through the sound. "That's... very interesting, Ani-ue. You would need a number of them, but I think... yes, it would be possible. I couldn't have done it before, but now, with this manor to use... We must go out and collect the specimens, forthwith!"
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"Stop!" You grab her by the sleeve as she gets up to head out the door. "Not until after dark," you say, holding her back by main force. "Those are the rules of magi, and unles you want the entire association coming after us you'll obey them. Besides, there are other things to be done today. To begin with..."

>[ ] "I want to hear more about your combat abilities. We need to plan out how to function as a team, if we're to survive the Holy Grail War." (Duty)

>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)

>[ ] "I need to spend some time training my abilities; I have to become stronger, if I'm to finish off Berserker." (Pride)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)
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>>3660415
>>[ ] "I want to hear more about your combat abilities. We need to plan out how to function as a team, if we're to survive the Holy Grail War." (Duty)
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>>3660415
>>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
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There's still the matter of the bad luck going around.
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
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>>3660438
Honestly, I did want to reward you folks for coming up with a clever way to use the tools at your disposal. That idea, though, was just too far in denial of what's possible.
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>>3660462
I figured as much so I didn't vote for it.
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
Maybe add in checking for patterns of bad luck as well?
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)

>[ ] "I need to spend some time training my abilities; I have to become stronger, if I'm to finish off Berserker." (Pride)

Can't we do both? She does one while we do another?
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>>3660515
Presumably if we choose the Pride option it's an implicit request for her to come and help somehow.
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
Fucking finally.
I so excited i might cry!
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>>3660415
>>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
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>>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
Finally.
Inb4 Caster set up an Anti-magecraft barrier.
Inb4 the two are fucking dead.
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>>3660542
It's time to rejoicecelebrate, lads
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Did we ever reveal the true names of our servants to Ogawara/Tsubaki?
Are we just revealing them now?
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It's finally time, boyz. The Gangs getting back together.

I'm kind of curious how deeply their affection for us actually ran, though. Circe liked us because we didn't PIG OUT after eating her good ass food, and there were a handful of mushy moments, but we weren't scoring that many points with her once we started nearing the end of Akeldama. Manly due to splitting the focus between her and Adelheid, and her disagreeing with Adelheid's presence entirely (for an admittedly understandable reason).

Not really worried about Adelheid due to the respect/admiration thing she had going on for Alberich. I bet her heart's going to explode once he tells her his name.
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>>3660415

>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)

Yorokobe Alberich
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>>3660552
>I'm kind of curious how deeply their affection for us actually ran, though
Sweets has said more than once that they were tied for affection, and Circe fell in love with us because we acted like a classical hero. Our first heroic moment was surviving the Kykeon and the second was playing Adelheid like a fiddle the first time we met her. Going back to help her after QAR blew her out of the sky probably helped a lot too.
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>>3660558

You know I have a great idea: Let's ask Shirou for five bowls of Mapo Tofu
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>>3660552
Circe wanted us to become a hero.
By all rights, now we are and our power is only rising.
Even the leader of Charlemange's Paladins was no match.
If not for his immortality, even Achilles would have fallen by our blade.

Wonder how she's been taking our disappearance, or that the fact that the Yumigawa Rushorou of this world is a hollow fake of the man she knew.

I hope she's getting along better with Adelheid. The two weren't incapable of being pleasant to each other, now they don't have to kill each other for the wish, either.
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>>3660559
>eat Mapo Tofu
>Judas ASSUMES DIRECT CONTROL
R E J O I C E, EMIYA SHIROU.
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>>3660561

After dealing with Achilles what we'll need to do then is to grind Artoria down into the Mud and have her admit that Alberich is the TRUE King of Knights.

Man I really do wanna see Gil though, not only for the Pride battle to ensue but also seeing how Kenotis and GoB sync together. Maybe HSG with Ea for the 404 Reality Not Found Sword
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>>3660567
We need to be a divine smith to understand Ea.
King of Knights is a lame title anyway.
I want Saber to apologize for fucking with us.
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>>3660570

Well thankfully we can ask one of the numerous blacksmith gods about to understand the thing. Then again I'd still like to get a nice armor based NP and hey they'd make something great.

>King of Knights is a lame title anyway.

But don't you see the greatness in it? I wish to provide Seibah with such a struggle as she'll trample over her own ideals to try and defeat Alberich that will prove that she was NEVER worthy of the title. Deal her a defeat that it'd be on par or even surpassing her failure as Camelot's ruler

And as she lies broken in more ways than one, she will relinquish her title to the more 'worthy' adversary. And then if we're ever able to even do it that is corrupt her, into the first vassal of a King.

Or just kill her and listen to a sweet song that'd Diarmud's litany of hateful curses toward Kerry seem tame by comparison
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>>3660587
Alberich would have a great time dismantling her ideals.
As a ruler she got crushed by in-fighting and rebellion, the ultimate failure.
Charisma Rank B, huh?
Adelheid would certainly have fun with taunting her for her ideals too.
Adelheid had to have the world turn against her to stop her country, which she had built up from the ruins the last war left it in, from taking over literally everything.
Seibah cannot into being a leader.
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>>3660594
You know you're a fuck-up beyond compare when even one guy decides "Yes, Mordred would be a better king."
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Ayaka will be so heartbroken.
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>>3660617
Because we'll get our waifus back?
It just means she'll have to try harder.

Also she's like, technically our mother, if Judas was summoned because of her talent for sacrifice magecraft.

Strange thought.
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Candidates competing for Alberich's heart
>Ex-Goddess known for transforming randoms into animals for fun
>Loli Hitler
>his Oni NEET witch Sister who eats people.
>his sort of mother, kind of. Maybe.
>a Homonculus girl that assumed Alberich was her brother
>his desire to rule the world and to crush his enemies
>a girl he brainwashed (might be after his RL counterpart instead, depending on how the brainwashing worked)
Oh Christ, imagine Kikuko going full Yandere on this world's Rushorou. The poor guy.

God damn.

We're more skilled with a sword than Tsubaki is at Magecraft. Probably. Still, it's always fun when a Caster tells us "sorry but no." Whenever we suggest something that could be bullshit.
We could still summon that Dragon though.
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>>3660634
>his desire to rule the world and to crush his enemies
Best girl.
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
Let's have her look for Matsuda as well
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In hindsight, seeking out Circe and Adelheid is gonna end with lots of Alberich's time being taken up.
Gotta spend time with
>Master, possible waifu
>Waifu 1
>Waifu 2
>Younger sister
>Other Younger sister, eventually.

I can't wait to be able to just go off alone to topple governments when we're incarnated to escape our obligations to spend time with them all.
Not because I don't want to spend time with them, but because I don't want them all killing each other over us spending time with them.
Especially you, Circe.

...Which they might do in our absence anyway.


It's gonna need to be a reeaal big palace.
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)

Well, I can't say I expected the Heiligöffnungschwert idea to really work. Still, at least we got some more lore out of it. Time to put that Caster utility to work.
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Sweets, is our armour protected by our MR? Because if it's not we could have Tsubaki put some talismans on it to improve our performance.
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>>3660745
>rematch with Saber where we're just covered from head to toe with paper talismans
The image this paints is fucking hilarious
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>>3660773
>"Behold, Saber, my perfect defense! It must be humiliating, to have such mighty Magic Resistance only to be defeated by a Caster."
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>>3660775
This is the part where we have a Pegasus swoop down from the sky to pick us up and also claim to be Rider in addition to Saber and Caster.
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>>3660745
>Sweets, is our armour protected by our MR?
It is, yes.
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Anyone else get the sneaking feeling that this would hurt Tsubaki's feelings?
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>>3660859
Nah, she's all growed up. She can handle at least this much.
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>>3660865
>Wow, you became a Caster! That will help me immensely!
>By the way, can you help me find Circe, the better Caster?
I can only imagine that going over so well, especially with her "backround".
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>>3660859
We need to maximum our war potential, two more allies is a hard thing to turn down.
If they are in trouble then even more of a reason.
With 4 Servants against them, even the strongest Servant would surely fall.
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>>3660873
Alberich is a man dedicated to victory, if she gets upset by such a sound tactical decision she really is a fool.
Also she'd much rather hang back, which amassing allies would allow us to do.
Even putting aside Alberich's personal feelings for the two, it's foolish to allow two (3 including Matsuda) unknown quantities to affect any plans Alberich decides upon, the mere presence of Kourakuhime has forced a complete rework of his plans.
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>>3660873
>Wow, you became a Caster! That will help me immensely!
>By the way, can you help me find our buddies from Akeldama who will definitely team up with us, so we have five Servants on our side?
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>>3660873
Maybe if we only wanted to find Circe, but we are obviously just trying to find our friends.
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>>3660896
>>3660897
Yeah, you have a point.
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>>3660859
If she's offended I don't care at all, that's completely unreasonable
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>>3660415
>>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
Oh man, I'm so excited lol
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>>3660415
>[ ] "I have a job for you. Make use of the magic you've been watching me with to find Circe and Adelheid. You aren't the only stray Servant to have come out of Judas' ritual." (Compassion)
Stars are now right.
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>>3660922
Ah, but you forget. Being completely unreasonable is a sister's right.
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We should also ask her to look for our other sibling, not just Berserker and Caster.
>>3660959
That might be the case, but surely she must understand the benefit of alliances.
I would hope.
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>Two of the most "powerful" class
>Two of the most fucky class
>And the best of the bestest class
I love memes
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>>3660972
Alberich is truly blessed.
The only thing that could improve his set-up is an Assassin.
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>>3660995
Keiseki is dead, anon.
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>>3660995
Keiseki was a faggot, anon
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>>3660997
>>3660998
What a shame.
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I swear to the Gods Tsubaki if you throw a tantrum over this I'm gonna fucking flip.

We need all the help we can get for this fucking grail war.
Besides, I'm somewhat worried about Circe.
The fact she hasn't tracked us down but Kourakuhime could is concerning.
Considering the dreams we had about her in Akeldama, even more so.
I swear to Christ if she's decided to side with that Maybe Odysseus Fuck then the Dragon gets summoned and the train gets crashed.
Everyone in this city can fucking die.
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>>3661125
>the Dragon
Kosmos Ouroboros.
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>>3661139
Even better.
Good luck, Saber.
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>>3661125
I frankly think we have a much closer bond with Circe and Adelheid than our "sister" and would prioritize them over her with no regrets whatsoever
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I hope we get an interlude from the perspective of a Servant-tier combatant to see what Alberich's sword techniques are like. I assume it to be a measured but murderous style.

>>3661211
Agreed. Blood may be thicker than water, but I imagine Alberich is partial to Saliva
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>>3661211
Well sure, we haven't known our new sister for very long (we knew Ogawara but not for very long.) and haven't really bonded with her like we did Circe and Adelheid.
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>>3661223
I think a perspective from Emiya would be good for that, honestly.

Our connection with Tsubaki runs deeper than blood though.
Our souls and origins are connected.
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>>3661225
I say "we knew Ogawara but not for very long" when I meant "not very well"

We didn't interact much outside of looking at research results.
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>>3661223
I would love interlude from Ayaka`s perspective.
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>>3661248
As would I. Unfortunately I'm sure the Rider fight was just a flash from her perspective.
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>>3661223
>>3661248
That'd be something you'd be interested in, huh? I've only been thinking of doing interludes for scenes Alberich has no way of seeing himself, but I wouldn't mind giving you folks another view of your fighting if you want to read that.
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>>3661312
We're typically so focused on fights that the other characters in the scene are forgotten. I wouldn't mind seeing any fight from another perspectice
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>>3661312
That would be great! When I read our fight scenes, I tend to focus on the actions of the enemy alone.
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>>3661312
Another perspective is always interesting. Though my interest lies less in our fighting skill and more in how does Tsubaki or Ayaka see Alberich?
Does he come across as stoic, formal, quiet, brave or maybe introverted?
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>>3661312
I'd like some alternate perspectives. They are always fun.
>>3661326
>how does Tsubaki see Alberich ?
Favourite anime character.
Meditates too much.
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>>3661312
>>3661326
>>3661349
Now I want to read an overly romanticized Interlude of our fight from Tsubaki's perspective.
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>>3661349
>Mghhh... why can't I hear Ani-ue's internal monologue? This is so frustrating!
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>>3661376
I mean our fight with Roland. The fight against Achilles didn't go so well.

Speaking of, wouldn't Tsubaki have been able to see what the others were doing in that fight?
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>>3661349
>>3661377
A true waifufag and siscon reclassified into brocon and husbandofag, Probably was also into yanderes so now trying to give same vibes.
Being Yōjinshi-no-Kōrakuhime is hard.
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>>3661385
>fight against Achilles didn't go so well
Bullshit, we cut that fucker in half.
Then we cut off one of his arms.
Honestly, it's hardly our fault he was so bullshit.
>>3661377
This is what she gets for being an animeonly.
>>3661393
>Probably was also into yanderes so now trying to give same vibes.
She's up against quite the opponent for the Yandere position.
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>>3661421
>Yandere position
More like all yandere harem.
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>>3661424
Only the dead may know peace from this harem.
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>>3661461
>TWO yandere Casters
>implying one would be so fortunate to only experience death
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>>3661475
>When the Casters try to magick Alberich and that Magic Resistance B kicks in
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>>3661485
>>3661475
And then they find out that Alberich was a yandere himself all along.
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>>3661485
>Magic Resistance B
>implying that means anything in the face of two --possibly cooperative-- Casters
Enjoy getting de-aged into a shota in the DLSite version.
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>>3661507
At least Alberich's physical age will align with that of his waifu gang then
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Actually, let's think of what Tsubaki and Circe could do to Alberich if they worked together?
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>>3661525
ie. what would they think would be an appropriate present for his first birthday?
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>>3661485
>when Magic Resistance A DOESN'T kick in.
>and Circe is more talented with magic than Medea
>and she has an assistant
We need to rank it up to EX to protect Alberich's purity.
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>>3661545
>Comparing Alberich to such a lesser servant
Point taken though. Conceptual Biology EX so we have no orifices to violate when?
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>>3661599
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New reason not to kill the Emiyas:
>can ask them to protect us from our own allies
Help me Emiya-san. I may have made a terrible mistake.
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>>3661663
If only Shiki were here.
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>>3661669
Which episode was this again?
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>>3661765
Episode 4.
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>>3661769
Thank. The Date Everyone plan didn't end well, iirc.
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>>3661778
Oh whoops.
It's episode 4 and the follow up is episode 12
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>>3661663
>mfw I realize gathering all our allies will turn this into a harem
pls God no
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>>3661794
It was inevitable the moment Ogawara became a
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>>3661794
>entire harem (except brainwashed girl) is composed of superpowered Yanderes
Being Alberich is suffering.
At least Seibah Alter won't be a problem.
...
Maybe.
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>>3661824
>Date Everyone
>Die
>Date One
>Die
We really screwed the pooch.
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>>3661842
Date no one?
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>>3661842
>Run
>Die

>Ask Emiyas for help
>Die

Yorokobe Alberich.
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>>3661854
>Die
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>Get them to get along
>Die by snu-snu
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>>3661869
>get them to get along
This joke is an eyesore.
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>>3661927
Hey, it could work. :^)
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>>3661982
We have more chance of convincing Shirou to turn his mind to steel to become a superhero.
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>>3661424
>all yandere harem.
I don't think Adelheid or Kōrakuhime acts nearly so much like a yandere as Circe did, though. Neither one of them has given you the death-stare after you spent time with another woman, for one thing.
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>>3662005
Clearly they both need to work harder for the Chief Yandere position then.
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>>3662012
Really, now. Where do you get this idea that every girl in Alberich's life is a yandere?
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>>3662308
From my tendency to plan for the worst.
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>>3662317
So, who's ready to be Ree'd at for suggesting a totally logical plan?
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"I need you to stay here and perform some magic for me," you say. "I can't have you gallivanting off on your own. You aren't the only stray Servant to be dropped in Tokyo by the Akeldama, and it's my first priority to find the others."

"Let go of my... sleeve," Kōrakuhime hisses, yanking on it in her frustration. "I'll... wait, so just... stop, there's no need to... grab me."

Obliging, you release the silk, and your sister returns to her seat on the side of the bed in a huff. "Goodness," she exclaims softly, "women are fragile creatures, Ani-ue. You ought not to be so... rough, hauling a girl about by the clothing."

"I find it difficult to regard as fragile someone who was hunting families for her dinner up until last night," you reply. "But that's beside the point. Find Matsuda and my Servants from the Akeldama."

"Did you... truly believe you were the first to... imagine such a course of action?" she asks, her expression shifting from an understated pout to a subtle smile. "I sought to divine their location on my first night... as a Servant, after having learned of yours."

"And you told me you knew nothing about Matsuda," you say, feeling a negative premonition.

"Correct. Neither the nymph Circe, the soldier Adelheid... nor the delinquent Matsuda Ryuuta appears... to the eye of my divination. Whether their true names have... changed in some way, they have left the city, or... there is some other means by which they are rendered invisible to me... I cannot say."

"Damn!" You can't hold back the expletive. Just when you think the chance to recover your comrades from the Akeldama Grail War has arrived, the trail goes cold once more. It's an infuriating development, and it's only with an effort of will that you keep yourself from flaring up further at Kōrakuhime. It may not be her fault, but she's the most immediate target of your anger. Wait; did she say Circe? You think you introduced Adelheid by her name, but Ogawara didn't know your first Servant's True Name, did he? What's going on?

"How did you learn Circe's name," you ask. "If you're keeping something from me..."

"You look as if... you believe I'm hiding her beneath my bed, simply to spite you," she says tonelessly. "You ought to... trust me more, if we are to... be siblings. Judas told me all that I hadn't already been... aware of, regarding our War in the Akeldama. He saw everything that... went on there, as you know."

"I see." So that's all it was, another bit of aid she received from Judas. "Well, I suppose finding your fellow stray Servants is off the table for the moment."
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>[ ] "Let's talk about what else you can do. Have you given any thought to what part you'll play in our battles to come?" Kōrakuhime may have explained her magic to you in last night's dream, but by now that vision's become a blur. (Duty)

>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)

>[ ] "Why don't we go down and have some breakfast? I'm getting hungry, and you can meet Miss Ayaka properly." (Self-Preservation)

>[ ] Say something else (Write in)
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>>3662943

>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)
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Short update this time, but it turned out to be a short conversation and I wanted to give you a choice of where to take it next. Hoping I can get one or two more updates done tonight.
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>>3662943
>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)
>two completely unproductive votes in a row
Hopefully this will actually work
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>>3662943
>[ ] "Let's talk about what else you can do. Have you given any thought to what part you'll play in our battles to come?" Kōrakuhime may have explained her magic to you in last night's dream, but by now that vision's become a blur. (Duty)
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>>3662943

>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)
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>>3662943
>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)
Well that's irritating. But not unexpected.
Well, if Circe is within the city then it's obvious she'd put up some scrying counter-measures, she's one of the beings responsible for magic and wouldn't be caught out by a trick she can use.
I would imagine you would need to use Adelheid's actual true name.
Matsuda has likely taken a new name.

We need to be nicer to Tsubaki.
Fucking Judas.
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>>3662943
>Waifus are still missing
GOD FUCK! GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!
Whatever. It's fine, not that I really expected anything good to come to us so easily.

>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)
Let us get out alliance with the Einzbern underway.
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>>3662994
I do hope they haven't all been offscreened at least.

>page 10
New thread with next update?
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>>3663012
I should probably do that, yes.
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I forgot that the Case Files anime is out right now.
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>>3662943
>[ ] "Perhaps you can find someone else for me instead: Liliesviel von Einzbern." If you intend to ally with that girl, it would be for the best to contact her while the sun is out. You haven't forgotten her casual reference to killing you, but as an Einzbern she's likely the most powerful ally you could have in this War. (Pride/Compassion)
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I need more consistent art for this quest. I wonder if there's some way I could recruit a drawfag to do illustrations for my updates.
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>>3663557
Quality drawings usually cost money
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New update with the new thread:
>>3663740



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