moonstruck !

RIDER OF BLACK ; ISOLA AFFILIATED

[lunalier]

I’m not doing anything for this event! There’s not really much I can work with within the scope of fate unless i start pulling out orlando furioso lore (i am mentally unable)

however im more than happy to have astolfo bug anyone proxied!!! Honestly Astolfo will be fazed by little (unless you’re an enemy of Chaldea and even then) so they’re really just gonna roll with the punches. They lost a huge chunk of memory too they can’t judge

[lunalier]

“Hey does anyone speak clown? I saw some in the street but they didn’t seem to respond to my questions.” Astolfo, I think that’s a Mime.

[lunalier]

hopeled​:

      “ Maybe less RPGs would be about killing god if gods stopped playing absolutely banging tunes whenever someone tries to kill them. “

“And who wants a dinky theme song when they fight? Absolutely nobody!”

[lunalier]

clarentheir​:

            MORDRED   offers little more than a lukewarm grunt at further mention of Sieg. It’s clear Rider doesn’t know much of anything about that homunculus’ whereabouts… But the consensus seems to be that he survived. Idly she wonders if that means he won the Grail… But surely he and Astolfo can’t be the only ones that survived that war, right ?  … This is making her head hurt. It’s not worth mulling over; not like it affected her or Shishigou anymore. … Wherever his spirit wound up.

             Whatever this island wanted with them was a far more pressing issue, lips pursed as the knight mulls it over. A low hum rumbles in her throat, eventually giving way to an exasperated sigh.  ❝   Bah— I can’t even begin to figure out what the hell they want. What’s the point of havin’ all these Servants in one place if all our parameters  SUCK  ?   ❞   She waves her hand as if tossing the subject over her shoulder, folding her hands behind her head once more immediately afterward.   ❝   You ask me, it’s almost like they want us to be… normal. Like we’re guests in some kinda weird new life, and they just don’t want us wreckin’ the place in the meantime. … But why would anyone care about Servants like that ?   ❞

Boy, that sure was a puzzler! They’ve actually seen events that seem similar to this; a grail war with lesser servants crawling over each other to truly be bequeathed their classes, and of course those like Ritsuka who deemed the presence of a Servant more than just a funny little magical familiar.

“I can think of a few reasons why but....I don’t even know who our captors are. I saw a grail war once where a bunch of servants were given lousy parameters and told to fight their way up to get their classes but....this place seems WAY more peaceful than that version of Tokyo. But however we got summoned here means a LOT of magic was required....ugh, my head hurts.”

They sat down with a thud and let out a deflated noise. Seriously, they were beings inherently imbued with purpose, and while Astolfo didn’t give two hoots about whatever their master wanted out of them, manifestation had to happen for a reason--right?

“Well, I guess it’s nice to be someplace where we’re not fighting? Grail wars are so tense, with the secrecy and the fights to the death and stuff.”

[lunalier]

junaou​:

           “My Clairvoyance…has be stolen by the city, unfortunately.” It was quite the dilemma - his powers have weakened as a Heroic Spirit, and now they have lessened considerably so. Of course, he had confidence that he can still perform admirably as a Servant in this manner. But it did have some disadvantages, such as being unable to answer Astolfo’s important burning questions.

            “You never mentioned if you ever became a god, although your ears were long and black. Bunny-like? That’s what you mentioned.”

           If you ask Arjuna, Astolfo would make an excellent god. A god of the moon and good cheer, perhaps?

“That’s a bummer! I think we’re all kind of stuck, though, I don’t have any of my Noble Phantasms here, not even sweet hippogriff....,” They wiped their eye; they were sure their steed was fine without them but still! Was it wrong for a knight to miss their steed?

“But bunny ears, huh? Oh, kinda like the moon rabbit thing from Japan? That seems pretty godly! No idea why I’d be some incarnation of Tsukiyomi though, so I guess I’m not a god! They still sound REALLY cute.” 

[lunalier]

i see u are a pink-haired person of culture too

“Sure am! I’m honored-- such high praise from someone with such a cute outfit!!”

[lunalier]

“If Solomon has so many wives did he have a lot of divorces?”

[lunalier]

wayefinder‌:

         ❝I don’t think the life laid out for me really… Allows for marriage. It… Sounds nice, though.❞ Are her ideas of what those sorts of things should be a little idealized? Maybe. That happens when you have no experience, and what few examples you’ve seen literally come from Disney princesses.

“On the move a bunch? I get it. Adventuring doesn’t make very good for the whole settling down thing! A lot of people I’ve known have just like, left on trips regardless of the marriage because of the financial stability thing. That’s gotta be lonely though...,”

Hm, this was a puzzler.

“Don’t do that unless you guys like having personal space. Oh, maybe you can find a spouse that travels with you!”

[lunalier]

“I uh...Back in my day we just sort of married for financial security, haha! Honestly it’s kinda weird to me when people just DON’T? But it’s kinda cool, too, love’s a better reason to marry than money anyway!”

[lunalier]

clarentheir‌:

       ❝   I was talkin’ about that knock-off Saber, of course. Sieg.   ❞   THERE   was no mention from Rider of that homunculus dying amid the Greater Grail War… She’s not sure if that infuriates her or relieves her. Either way, a tightness in her chest relaxes — and constricts when her own previous Master is mentioned.

           The Saber bristles, shoulders rigid — a stiffness she attempts to shake off by picking up the useless wooden sword once more. Mordred turns it in her hand a few times, a sharp exhale leaving her; something caught between a chuckle and a scoff.   ❝   Che— hard to imagine him babysittin’ anything other than you. Or was it the other way around ?  … Whatever — my contract ended in the war. I got a new one now. … But I don’t think that’s why they took our stuff. From what I could tell, the battle was preventing some kinda invasion anyway… If they wanted to get rid of us, they would’ve just let the enemy take us. … Well — try and take us.   ❞

“We really are two peas in a pod, huh! I don’t like being separated from him either but...It’s just how being a servant is, you know? Contracts come and go. I’ll carry those memories and cherish them regardless!” A pause. He was probably still looking after the grail. “Besides, I’m sure he’s up to something important, wherever he is!”

They nodded as they tried to make more sense of this--Summoning en masse like this and keeping this many servants under the same contract wasn’t impossible at least. The Ruler of Red did it, and so did Ritsuka. But it was a rarity and all the servants of the Red faction were more than capable combatants. 

Was this like Salem, and its strange magical barriers? ....They were pretty sure if they looked at whatever that tome’s name was it’d probably be that. If they could make sense of it, or had it. Maybe it was.

“Not sure why they’d keep us here without our powers, though, like, what good are we like this?” They picked up their own sword and looked at it. “I mean, I still know how to fight, but...I’m not even one of the good paladins!”

[lunalier]

“Hey! I hope there’s no hard feelings about the lightbulb jokes,” the paladin rubbed the back of their head while giving Saber a bashful smile. As much as he was willing to go along with Gilgamesh’s shenanigans he did sort of feel bad wisecracking at the king of knights--what kind of paladin were they?

“Honestly as fun as it would seem knowing a bunch of parallel me’s I don’t know how good we’d be collectively, you know? What’s meeting in one place even like?”

@sanctummilitis​ sc.

[lunalier]

“Hey you know what I miss. Flagons. whatever happened to the Flagon, anyway?”

[lunalier]

“Sometimes when things get dicey you have to spoon out your soup in a cup i don’t see the problem?”

[lunalier]

Though Astolfo didn’t have much need to Eat as a magical familiar and didn’t have the funds to really support much culinary spelunking they refused to let themselves be stopped. Most of these excursions were devoted to window-browsing pastry shops, looking at the artfulness of their preparations and wishing dearly to behold the tastes...

This time, however, something in one of the other wards caught their attention--well outside the star trail was a restaurant that seemed rustic enough to be from the time they were living. They knew there were Knight’s Life-types of eateries, but looking in...this didn’t have any of that!

Curiosity got the best of them and they poked in. It was amazingly well cared for--and while it had the aura that gave them Carolingian Pub deja-vu, it was sooo much cleaner! 

“Wow this place takes me back! I haven’t been in a place like this in a long time!!” Unfortunately for the poor bloke in uniform with the silver hair, he’d be the one Astolfo started talking to. He was probably just another food service worker, too....didn’t know a darn thing.... “We used to have a ton of these back home but well, they didn’t have this city’s technology to help ‘em out!”

Their eyes twinkled with excitement.“Tell me everything you can!!!”

@halfaknight​; sc.

[lunalier]

@danaravi; sc.

“oh! these look delicious!!” Astolfo’s face was, with no particular regard on the matter, clinging to the glass as they tried to get a closer look at the pastries contained within. They managed to spot Karna out of the corner of their eye, looming over the display case as well. In Chaldea such passings by weren’t too weird but they were uncommon enough it piqued the Rider’s interest.

“You always seemed so focused on getting a fight in, it’s kinda weird seeing you just like. Around, you know?” Imagining Karna trying to relax was, honestly, a bit jarring. “Have you been here before? Do you know how any of these taste?”

[lunalier]

lunalier‌:

“Woah didn’t that guy die?”

“Yeah but did I see either of you die the first time?"

[lunalier]

“Woah didn’t that guy die?”