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sevenvices2016-03-28 03:05 pm
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week 7
 24 players remaining ♫ monday - thursday Monday morning begins just like the rest, slow and uneasy. At 12pm, every television will go off with its usual bout of static, followed by Katerina's calm, albeit disinterested, voice. "Please gather in the hotel lobby within the next hour." That's all that it says before the televisions turn off. Anyone not in their rooms will hear the voice echoing around them as if through a speaker system, although there are (still) no speakers present. After hearing the motive, characters who choose to explore will find that the void around the town has retracted a bit, and there is now a park and playground next to the clinic. >Mingle? This is Week 7's mingle log, covering Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Investigations will go up on Friday. When posting toplevels, specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations between characters, remember to let us know in the post linked below. More plot elements will be introduced this week. Mod comments will be occasionally distributed to open toplevels, accordingly. setting rulebook profiles private conversations |
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[ She laughs a little hollowly with a strained smile. ]
I mean, yeah, I enjoy this kind of thing, but of course it isn't where my true interests lie. Visual novels are just minor entertainment. . . and it helps me calm down. But right now, I was just double checking to see if I was right about something.
[ She'll make a save file right here first and then reload from a different save file. ]
The story of this game series is about a boy, named Emiya Shirou. When he was young, the area where he lived was burned down. He saw this happen right in front of him, and while he tried to escape, all he could see were just blocks and blocks upon of dead bodies. People who he, as a child, could not save. They were just dying with no reason or rhyme to it. But he was saved by a man named Emiya Kiritsugu, who then adopted him and told him his secret: that he as a magus. So the two of them lived together. Sure, you'd think that maybe that's it, right? That's the end of the story, they lived happily ever after, shit like that? No, of course not. That'd be too easy, too simple of a story.
It doesn't make it interesting. Anyway, Kiritsugu is found out to be sick. And dying. He tells the young Shirou, just moments before his death that his dream was to become a superhero. An impossible dream where he could save every single life. He said that he wouldn't be able to do it now, not when he was so sick. But Shirou? He decided to take on that dream. He'd become the superhero that his father could not become. And after that, he died.
Timeskip to age seventeen. This is where shit gets complicated, so I'm going to have to explain a few things here. Since Shirou was an adopted son, he wasn't a magus. But he tried to be. He had learned a few magic, but he sucked at it. He could barely do reinforcement. He practiced day in and day out and... nothing. Things were as normal as they could be in the city of Fuyuki, 2006. Ten years had passed since that fire. And yet - nobody had built over its ruins. Maybe because they thought it would be bad luck.
So, Shirou attends school like normal. He has friends - a complete douchebag named Matou Shinji, his sister, the kind Matou Sakura, and the student council president, Ryudou Issei. Shirou lives alone in his big Japanese style house, although his guardian, Fujimura Taiga comes to visit every morning. Along with Sakura. So, yeah. Things seem normal, life goes on. A day passes. Because of Shirou's ideals of "superheroism", he tends to attempt to help everyone he can. No matter who asks. So he's told to help clean the dojo and he stays late. But it's a bad day for him. Very bad. He sees two people fighting and just because he sees them - well.
He's killed, stabbed in the chest. Game over, right? Of course not. Someone else decides to save him. A girl who our protagonist will come to know in the next coming days. Her name is Tohsaka Rin. She revives him with a very powerful pendant, and she leaves it by his side, which Shirou keeps. Shirou goes home, realizes that "well, shit, I'm going to die again" but he then ends up stumbling into a magic circle and summons a person. A beautiful woman dressed in blue armor, who saves him with her invisible sword. He gains a marking on his hand because of this summoning called a Command Seal and Saber beats the shit out of the intruder in his house, who then fucks off.
This mysterious armored woman then notices more intruders outside of his house and tells him, "hey, I'm gonna kill them." Shirou hates death, so he runs out to stop her. He notices who's outside immediately - Tohsaka Rin, the girl he admires, the girl from his school - and a tall, dark man in red. Depending on what route you want to take, he either stops her with the Command Seal or by other means. In any case, nobody dies. Rin then tells Shirou that he has no idea what the hell he's getting into so they go to a church - yeah, that's right a church to learn exactly that. He finds out he's being sent into a war. A war where seven people - magi, known as Masters - have to fight each other using the familiars they summoned, known as Servants. These Servants are heroic spirits from the past. Ones you've heard in stories.
Follow me so far?
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This is...a rather involved tale, but I believe I understand so far, yes.
[Go on.]
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But he gets better later on. The story of the Fate route focuses on those two and the parallels they have. You get to find out Saber's true identity through this route. It's the first route you play and you can't unlock the other two routes without completing this one. It sets you up for the other two, leaving you with some questions that don't get answered until the other two routes.
Like for example, Archer - Rin's Servant. You don't find out about who he is until the second route. His backstory is a mystery until then. The second route is called "Unlimited Blade Works". It's a story that, while it may have Rin as the heroine, primarily focuses on Shirou as a person. He has to deal with his ideals and how conflicting and hypocritical they are and face them head on. You find out the true identity of Archer through this route.
Then there's the last route, Heaven's Feel. It unlocks the last few secrets, primarily about the Holy Grail War system and several of the other characters. This third and final chapter focuses on Sakura and how she fits into the whole picture. In the first two routes, she is depicted as a normal girl who is associated with the douchebag of a brother who is also, apparently, a Master. In this route, you also see a very different side of Shirou. If you choose the right option, Shirou decides to toss away his ideals; instead of saving everyone, he decides to save only one person, the one that he loves, because he knows that if he saves her, he can no longer save everyone.
Heaven's Feel shows the darker side of the series and reveals the true nature of the Holy Grail War system and why it's a piece of shit and doesn't actually grant wishes like people thought it was supposed to do. The other character that Heaven's Feel focuses on is a little girl named Illyasviel von Einzbern - Illya for short. She plays a huge role in the War, and we find out in this route what exactly that is.
I'd say more about it all but that would be spoilers and I'm not too fond of spoiling people. But what I'm looking for in the visual novel right now is... well, there's something in the Heaven's Feel route where Illya talks about how souls work and how you can place one in a "doll".
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[You know, if not for the sex scenes, he'd actually be pretty tempted to play it? But he refrains from saying this, instead focusing in on the part that seems more relevant.]
I take our departed friends are your reason for looking into this?
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Yeah. I was wondering if any of the material I have on me could have a possible way... to bring them back, or something.
take it* lost a word, jfc
Hmm...I would point out that a work of fiction is hardly the best place to look, but... [He shakes his head.] This whole situation with the "half dead ghosts" defies all logic and rationale as it is. If i did not know any better, I would say it was little more than a work of fiction, so perhaps you are looking in exactly the right place.
[He shrugs.]
I certainly have no better ideas.
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Well, yeah. I mean -- it's not just the half dead ghosts that remind me of fictional stuff. There's also the various motives. I mean, this week I got a photo of something that's impossible to have taken a photo of. Under normal circumstances, of course.
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Mmmm...now that you mention it, I suppose mine would have been a somewhat difficult moment to capture as well. I hadn't thought much of it, really. After the videos from a few weeks ago, along with the fact that they are apparently capable of taking us from seemingly any time in alternate universes, it hardly even registered as an oddity...
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He has. ALISHA HAS TO BE FROM A DIFFERENT PLANET IN THE SAME UNIVERSE. SHE'S JUST GOTTA.] But those exceptions aside, it's clear that alternate universes are involved to some degree.However... [He frowns a little, not in an angry way. But more a weir mixture of doubtful and curious] are you suggesting something like...this Fate story of yours is actually happening out in some alternate universe somewhere? Like some manner of...bizarre universal bleedover?
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[ She hums, contemplative as she rubs her chin in deep thought. ]
It's possible. And I'm not just talking about that game - but any and all stories.
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[And the least meta one. Suggesting that one of THEIR stories is simply a story in someone else's universe would just be...]
My initial reaction is to say something like that is rather impossible, but...truthfully, my only experience with interuniversal travel prior to this instance did...not last very long. Mere hours, hardly enough time to attempt comparison.
[So...maybe? Still sounds pretty crazy though.]
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[ If she sounds like she's quoting someone, she probably is. ]
Whether it's true or not is left to be unseen. [ A shrug. ] I just don't think that we should ever discount anything, regardless of how crazy it might seem.
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I am not certain who you are quoting, but I am afraid that statement is as incorrect as it is inspiring. [Well at least he can tell that it's meant to be inspirational. But he's waaaaaay too logical to take it to heart, unfortunately.] The universe, all universes, that is, do have rules. Rules bound by logic, which must be followed and cannot be broken, no matter how much a person may want to change them.
Though, as far as this particular matter is concerned, you are correct. Despite my hesitance, it is too early to wholly rule the possibility out just yet. We simply do not have enough evidence either way.
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I know, because I've personally experienced it. Logic and analysis may be my specialty, but I have to think out of the box nowadays.
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In an event, were you actually able to find what you were looking for? About the dolls. Or is it necessary for you to play more of this game?