[IC] Fate/Full Moon

[rustytengo]

"Liar!" Josh said at Caster once he reached downstairs "You said I could have my cookies back if I got up." He said at the girl who was busy cooking breakfast. "Did I now?" Caster said koily "Well I guess you will have to eat something else then." She said with a smile. "Really? You know I you don't need to cook or anything Abby. I could of just bought something for us to eat." Josh said with a sigh. "Oh, I know that but you bought all of those cute clothes for me yesterday so I wanted to do something nice." Caster said shyly well looking cutely at Josh "I summoned you Caster your fighting a war for me so trust me when i tell you your already are doing enough." Josh said sheepishly well looking away form her. "Master!" Caster said nearly squealing "Don't say stuff like that it makes me feel all tingly." Caster said blushing well looking away from Josh "Now go get whats her name we need to plan for today and as much as I rather it just be me and you shes' involved. So go any fetch her." Caster mumbled as she continued to cook

"Okay I will be back once I let her know then." Josh said blushing as he walked back upstairs

"I still can't figure out why shes like that. I've been careful not to involve myself with her beyond partners haven't I. Nadia the same way shes been fallowing me for what is it a few years now and she acts like that to. Why?" Josh thought to himself as he walked to Nadia's room.

"Hey Nadia you up yet? Me and Caster are downstairs. So join us once you can we need to plan for today." Josh said as he knocked on her door.

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

Nadia walked over to the door, still barely dressed, and opened it. She was done meditating, but she wasn't going to let Josh know that.

"It better be important, I was in the middle of my morning's meditation." said leaning up against the doorframe. "Tell Caster I will be down once I am fully dressed, shouldn't take too long, unless you want something else." she said with a wicked smile. He probably wasn't there for that, nor would he probably get her intent in saying that. Josh was a bit of a dolt when it came to the romance or love parts of things. She kept hovering in the doorway until he left. ((which I imagine wasn't a big amount of time, I am just leaving this line here so Josh has a chance to react a bit. Up to you Rusty.))

[Flynn]

Hels offered an apologetic smile. "Despite the rather melancholy company, the house is fine. I've already cleaned and organized the majority of it". Hels gestured towards the kitchen. "You can set your things in here, you'll find it much cleaner. Also, the pancakes are in the refrigerator if you still want some.

It was nice to see another soul employed to God. After being stuck in a household with one he so yearned to "purify" and another he felt conflicted about bleeding dry, it was a breath of fresh air to see father Aaron.

"I did not expect to see you in these parts, father. Are you on business?".

Edited December 7, 2014 by Flynn

[Bfroger6]

"As a matter of fact, I do have something I want to speak to you about." Aaron spoke as he put the groceries in the kitchen and picked up the pancake plate from the fridge. Their smell endeared his empty stomach, brining it to growl. "Oh, sorry about that, haha. These look really good though. And the place too. I'm impressed." He sat down at the dining table with a smile on his face and put the pancakes in front of him. As he glazed them with the Nutella he bought, the priest decided to share what was on his mind. "Uhm... Sorry, it doesn't feel right to me to point my finger at somebody, but I have to ask, so sit down please. You know, I've been in Shinto this morning when I went to buy the groceries for myself and you, and I saw an interesting news report pop up on one of the cafes I walked by. It was about some incidents that happened in the city. Apparently, someone blew up the ground floor of a building, causing the first floor to collapse as well. A family of four was killed then... And the whole atmosphere in that area seemed so heavy. I myself am not a magus so I wasn't sure how to interpret it all, but I feel as if those two things might be connected. I also have my suspicions that you Masters may have been involved in that." His eyebrow raised as he munched the pancake. His shaky gaze was focused on Hels. Aaron did not enjoy questioning him, but he had to as the referee of the war. His duty was to keep it all quiet, so he felt the need to stop any more of such incidents from happening in the future.

[Chevaleresse]

Siegfried heard the conversation from the other room. "It was my fault," he told the priest from the doorframe leading into the room. "Saber engaged Berserker there and was thrown through the building, twice. When he tried to hide inside as a tactic, one of the enemy Masters brought the building down."

[Bfroger6]

"Huh, I see..." Aaron turns around to face Siegfried with his mouth still full of pancakes. "Well, it's a shame, but things like that happen during the heat of battle... Just try to be a bit more careful next time, maybe try fighting in a less densly populated area." He gulps down the last bite and turns the whole chair around with his elbow over the seat. "Hey, don't look so down, mr Siegfried, you're gonna get wrinkles!"

A cheerful melody coming from Aaron's pocket fills the room. The chair scrapes the floor as he hastily pushes it away to get up. He takes his phone out, still ringing, and checks the screen. His expression darkens for a moment before returning to normal. The change is barely noticable but you are sure you saw it. Several seconds later, he clicks the end call button without answering and turns to Hels.

"I have to go now, sorry. Thank you for the breakfast and hospitality. You're a good cook." He says with a kind smile and begins walking to the door. Halfway to the door, Aaron stops with a face as if he had forgotten something. Moments later he runs back to the table and grabs the jar of Nutella he had left there. "I hope you don't mind me taking this, haha. Well, I'll be off. See ya!"

The priest runs out of the house with the Nutella in his left hand and the phone in his right. He redials the phone num er as he rushes and puts it over his ear. You think you can hear him saying something like: "It can't be..." as he runs up the street. He seems to be hiding something. You wonder what could it be and who could have called him on the phone.

Edited December 7, 2014 by Bfroger6

[rustytengo]

Josh turned away from Nadia once she opened the door to hide his face. "Okay then we will see you downstairs in a bit then." He said in a hurried voice as he was walking away. He stopped after a little bit and spoke. "Nadia, why do you..."He cut himself off "Actually never mind see you downstairs." He said well waving as he walked back down the stairs.

[Chevaleresse]

Siegfried's gaze followed the priest out of the room with a fair measure of bemusement showing on his normally inexpressive face. Shaking his head, he stepped into the room fully. Whatever it was, I doubt it is something I can affect at this moment in time. Not seeing Vincent in the room, he called out for the other man. "Vincent, you should get in here. We need to discuss strategy." Upon hearing this, Saber materialized with a short bow, in case he needed to weigh in, but said nothing. He shot Siegfried a questioning glance, but left it there when he received no response.

[Chim]

“Yes, yes, I’m here!” Vincent said yawning. He entered the kitchen with a visible Assassin behind him. “Was that the priest who just left? What did he want?”

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

"He is still a weird one." Nadia said, as she retreated back into her room to get dressed. "Wish he would open up more. Must not be confident talking to women, or at least me."

She quickly rifled through her drawers in the dresser looking through her clothes. She didn't really have much with her, but she still looked all the same. She picked out one of her suits and hastily put it on, not really checking to see if it was buttoned properly or if everything was lying flat. She didn't really care, it was still morning and she wouldn't be out for a bit, she didn't need to look fancy yet. She didn't bother putting on her socks or shoes yet either. Might as well get down there faster. Also, wasn't it rude to have ones shoes on in a Japanese home or something? Either way, she didn't mind being barefoot if she wasn't out and about, the carpeting felt nice on her bare feet, and even the hardwood floors weren't all that bad. She traipsed down the stairs, stopping at the bottom to put on her tie that she forgot. It was uneven for now, but once again, she would straighten everything out later.

She came into the room where Josh and Caster were rather hastily. "I'm here. So is there any food lying around? No point strategizing on an empty stomach." she said, plopping into the nearest chair.

[Chevaleresse]

Siegfried fixed Vincent with a flat look before proceeding. "The priest was here to investigate the deaths of a family of four that I caused. If it pleases you, we need to root Caster out of her lair somehow, or locate one of the other Servants. I believe Assassin should search out Rider; thus far, Rider is the only servant we have no knowledge of. Discussion of the identities of Berserker, Archer, and Caster should also occur."

[rustytengo]

Caster shoot Nadia a glare as she sat down then turned back to her cooking. After a bit (which was Caster taking her time on purpose) Caster sat a plate of dry bacon and burnt toast in front of Nadia and a much fuller plate in front of Josh with eggs, bacon and buttered toast. She sat next to Josh with a lighter version of Josh's plate for her.

Josh gave Caster a glare that made her turn away twirling her hair in embarrassment, but it didn't make her give Nadia any more food. Shaking his head Josh looked at Nadia. Sliding his plate towards her he says "Sorry about Caster. You can take some food from my plate if you want." As he said that Caster puffs her checks in a pout, but continues to ignore Nadia.

(ooc: surprised Nadia didn't say anything about Caster being in a maid outfit)

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

((she wasn't really paying attention, she migth now that she got a look at here though..))

"Not a very hospitable Maid, you sure hire better help Josh." Nadia said sticking her tongue out at Caster. "Also don't you look precious Miss Caster, makes me want to gobble you up myself."

She took a piece of bacon from the plate flipping it in the air and catching it in her mouth. Other than that she ate most of the rest of his plate, leaving just the eggs. She put her feet up on the table then as she slid back in her chair. She gave a big yawn and stretched. "Alright, so what did you want me for?"

[rustytengo]

Caster gave Nadia a look as if she was daring her to try."Nadia must of said something that Caster didn't like in their talk yesterday for her to act like this" Josh thought when he saw that look

"She's usually a lot friendlier. She saw it in town yesterday and she wanted it so i bought it for her." Josh said with an amused laughed. "Anyway, what we need is to figure out our plan for the day. With Caster's field its unlikely that any other servant could catch us off guard, but even so it won't help us figure anything out about our enemies and they know where we are. You spent more time dealing with the MA then I ever did Nadia did any of the masters we saw in Caster's glass yesterday look familiar? It would help to figure the masters as well as their servants." Josh said smiling well eating a piece of toast.

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

"The only thing for certain I know is one of them is with the Church, the others I don't know an awful lot about. They are mages so I don't imagine they are too awfully clever. The MA hid them well even from their own. This grail must be very important to them to have such a showing, so don't expect any of them to be second rate. While I don't know what they can do, I know they are good at what they do, even though it is a pathetic craft." She said. "and I see, she looks cute. Very nice of you do something that like for your servant. I wish mine was more of a person than a tool to be used."

Nadia shot Caster a look, one that was between women and hopefully Josh wouldn't understand. It was the "You haven't told him you love him yet have you?" look.

[Chim]

Vincent ignored Siegfried’s look and took a seat. “That’s a great plan and all but I have no idea where Rider hangs out. Unless you can point me to a general area I rather concentrate on luring Caster out and find a way to deal with Archer. In case of the latter I think we have no choice but to kill his Master.” His eye fell on some leftover pancakes and he grabbed the plate without asking permission. “Honestly I think Rider is the least of our worries. Chances are that they saw a part of the battle last night anyway and I’m sure we can lure them out if we confront the other Servants again.”

[rustytengo]

Caster returned a look to Nadia warning her not to say anything.

"The Church is working with them hmm. That's annoying. Well the second part was to figure out a bit more information of there servants then." Josh said with a yawn. "So you think that the servant we faced last night was Saber and is Beowulf right? How well do you think our chances if we face him again, and that Archer we saw against sabers ally last night? Caster thinks his identity is Arjuna Pandava. I did little research last night Arjuna was a Hindu demigod who was well know for being a great archer. So more then likely that he is the archer class servant." Josh said well munching on some bacon.

[Chevaleresse]

And now we see if I can stay with my goals. "What if we kidnapped Archer's master instead? Forcing his cooperation would not be difficult; should Archer turn on us, we simply dispose of his Master and wait him out. Adding a fourth Servant to our alliance would allow us to brute-force our way through this war if we had to, though I am sure a more elegant method can be found."

[Chim]

Vincent almost choked in his pancakes. “Kidnap Archer’s master? Are you mad? How the hell are we going to do that when we don’t even know who it is? Not to mention the command seals make it very easy to summon Archer even if we somehow pull it off. It’s too reckless and makes things harder than it should be. I say we kill the bastard as soon as we get the chance!”

[Chevaleresse]

"One doesn't win the Grail War without taking a few risks. Besides, what's the worst that could occur? Archer is summoned, we lose possession of his Master, and said Master loses a Command Seal. Either way, we come out at an advantage."

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

Nadia returned Caster's look with one that said, Don't worry I won't.

"I am pretty sure it is Beowulf, he is the only Saber I can think of that would toss aside his sword as if it was a toothpick. He fought Grendal without using any weapon the entire time in legend, so he probably is just as adept fighting barefisted as with a sword. I imagine our chances are pretty tied, as him and Berserker didn't really budge either way in their battle. They couldn't really inflict significant enough damage from either party. Berserker has 1 trump card, but I can't tell you what it is, because we will probably all die right now. If I reveal that Noble Phantasm, I reveal his identity and that will trigger our doom, especially in this location. That is our shot at taking out Beowulf with Berserker alone. With your help we probably definitely could. However, they have an alliance behind them. We know Saber is with them. Leaving all possible servants left with them to be either Assassin, Rider, or Lancer. I have a feeling they have Assassin as the Alliance was planned they would want to try and pick an assassin or Caster class servant, they work the best with someone to watch their back. So, I am positive they have Assassin."

She said, pulling her legs back. She was sitting with her legs crossed in the chair, and she had straightened up. Clearly she was interested, or finally fully awake. It was the latter of the 2 however, she finally broke the morning haze after her breakfast settled in her stomach. Oh how food did wonders for one's focus.

[Chim]

Vincent studied Siegfried. “The worst thing that could happen is that he manages to take out one of us in the process. I’m not comfortable with such a reckless plan. I see a lot of unavoidable dangerous situations compared to just assassinating Archer’s master.” He then turned his attention to the other man in the room. “What do you think?” He just hoped Hels would agree with him.

[rustytengo]

Josh grinned."Ah, yes names are very important in the Grail Wars aren't they.? I have left the decision of who she reveals that to up to Caster herself. Though not every spirit needs to worry about them getting know sometime a name is just a name. Though with Caster a name is the last thing you want her to figure out about you." as Josh says that Caster smiles happily.

"Though that does leave another thing to worry about." Josh said not smiling anymore "Even though this field is a pretty good protection against the other pairs. Its also leaves a pretty big target as we saw last night." Josh said with his eyes closed in thought. "So Nadia what would you suggest as a plan as action for the day." Josh said smiling again.

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

"Maybe we should move it, or leave it here and go elsewhere. If Caster can still use whatever this thing is for outside of it, it may be worth thinking about. They expect us to be here, what if we weren't? They may go after us again and run right into the barrier. However, that depends on how powered up our little barrier is. It has risks yes, but this is why we are talking about it." she said stretching her arms and legs. "It is up to you and Caster what we do ultimately, You stand the most risk of leaving the barrier, Berserker can do fine on his own elsewhere. Whatever we do, we don't want to face The MA all at the same time, we will definitely lose. Also, I doubt we have grounds for a temporary alliance with any of the free agents, so we are going to have to think outside the box here. Even if we did, we would definitely dispose of them afterwards."

[rustytengo]

Caster speaks up "Unfortunately its impossible to move the field without my Master having to use a command seal, and i would rather he not have to use those on such a thing. It would be possible for me go outside of the field and still be of some use but i lose the ability to use my abilities at there fullest. Then again the longer the field stays up the more useful I become and your berserker is actually be quite useful for making the field stronger. If I didn't know better i would of thought you two planed this out way before the war started." Caster said that last part with an amused smile.

Josh nodded at Caster's explanation. "I with her in this i would rather not have to use a command seal this early in the war either. Though even if they don't agree to an alliance it wouldn't hurt to figure out who the non-MA masters are and there servant. If I had to guess from what we saw last night Saber, Lancer and Assassin are the MA's servants. Which would leave Archer and Rider as the free ones. Before we meet up yesterday Caster said she sensed another servant enter the field but they left quite quickly. So if we where to go the direction they left we might be able to find where they are, or we could of course us the sword that Saber left behind and find out where the MA masters are hiding or at least on of them. Either one sound good to you Nadia." Josh said with a stretch.

Edited December 15, 2014 by rustytengo