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Week 1.
WEEK 1. As Cynthia had promised, the sun does indeed rise the next morning. Whether you slept or not (and sleeping inside the Pokémon Center you were in before seems totally fine by the attendant), it seems Cynthia kept her word; she left sometime shortly before sunrise, and you haven't been bothered by Team Galactic and those that work for it in the interim. It isn't advisable to return to the headquarters building, however. At least not for the time being. However, a new day does dawn, and with it comes the knowledge that you're in an unfamiliar city, completely on your own. There are several things to be done before you can leave: gathering supplies and provisions, finding maps, obtaining new clothes... Of course, your new "companions" are still with you, and they don't seem willing to leave your side; they'll follow you dutifully, but they still seem...wrong, horribly so, and it doesn't seem to be wearing off. Maybe if you work with them a little...? Try to talk to them, train them, teach them to do things... Who knows? It might do them some good. POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week one of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend! Feel free to investigate the city as you see fit this week; we ask only that you try to stagger investigations and be mindful of what's already been checked. If you wish to investigate, notify the mods in your comment subject for your top-level and we'll get on it as soon as possible!] |
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Yes. I'm the winner of the Fifth Holy Grail War.
[Though as she takes out another sandwich—for Shirou to split with himself and his pokemon, if he likes; after that, she'll retrieve one for Kayneth—Rin clucks her tongue and doubles back on that.]
Well, I'm officially recognized as the winner, at any rate. I didn't actually claim the Grail. When the time came, I ordered Saber to destroy it instead.
[She looks up sharply, already predicting the questions.] The truth is, the Grail war I participated in began early due to the premature and violent end of the Fourth, as I recall events.
No one could explain it, but I learned the reasons why during the Fifth. During the Third Holy Grail War, the Grail became corrupted. There's something evil that resides in it now, and when it wasn't able to be born into the world it sped the timetable along. Last time it only took ten years.
It will be back, though, and I expect I'll have to deal with it all over again soon enough.
[She jerks a thumb in Shirou's direction.] If what Kotomine says is true, and the Holy Grail Wars didn't continue after the Third, I imagine things went differently in his timeline. Maybe he comes from a world where the Grail was never corrupted in the first place.
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Yes, the Grail in my world is free from corruption. [ That's undeniably firm, and he stands again (having knelt to feed Litleo). ]
There were rumors that an unexpected event occurred in the Third but... [ He pauses to push an errant strand of hair out of his face, playing with it a little like a schoolboy would. ] I believe the diverging cause in my world was the Grail being taken by Yggdmillennia.
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[...he's still a little bit obviously bothered by it, though. Why wasn't this explained to him?
...was he still going to fucking die even if he won the Holy Grail War?]
I assume something like fixing that nonsense wouldn't activate the Counter Force...