colchismagecraft: (The plan was murder)
Caster ([personal profile] colchismagecraft) wrote in [community profile] isleofavalon2021-06-07 09:52 am

Log: Holy Grail War

🧙 WHO: Caster & OPEN (with a couple of closed TLs)
⚔️️ WHAT: Caster's gone on a grief-induced rampage after learning of the death of her lover back home
🕒 WHEN: June 6th, late night
🗺️ WHERE: The Brocéliande woodland
⚠️ WARNINGS: Violence, Arson, Kidnapping, Death Threats, Magical Torture, Grief, potential Body Horror (Will add more as they come up)



So here it was...the Witch of Betrayal finally showing her 'true colours' to Avalon. After that network post, Caster readied herself for whatever would come of it- the forest fire providing an ominous backdrop.

Since she'd come to Avalon, so many had told her she was a good person- and now, she was publicly burning it all to the ground.



[ooc notes: TL prompts will be in the comments!

I don't want Caster to get killed, but I'm all for her potentially getting maimed/scarred provided we plot first. If you don't think it's IC for your character to not just murder her, send me a message so we can plot how she can remove herself from the situation/have someone else intervene before it gets that far!

She'll be using her familiar symbiosis to fight and leaning toward making the actual description of that transformation slightly body-horror-y, but if you're not comfortable with that then just give me the heads up and I'll have her already turned when the thread starts.

Darin will have his own TL for rescuing him/fighting his own familiar fusion, which I'll link here when it's up- feel free to tag one or both as you see fit!]
impostorsyndrome: (you're not brainwashed)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-06-12 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[For a second—it truly feels like that moment a Master summons a Servant for the first time. Kadoc hasn't exactly lived through many of those, unlike Chaldea's Master, and his first meeting with Anastasia hadn't quite gone like this, to say the least. And yet the vibe is similar anyway. Maybe there's something in it that always feels like this.

He offers her his hand, not for the twisted knife, but to hold and seal the formal introduction. (That knife must be a Noble Phantasm, even if she can't use it here the way she once could. How must that feel? Maybe a little like the magic crest he can't use, or the circuits he can't even feel inside of himself anymore.)]


Medea . . .

[What to say?

He'd made a first impression on Anastasia with his introduction back then, that was for sure. But those words don't apply here, and even if they did, he'd feel so very wrong repeating them. But the sentiment had been powerful, just a statement of intent. He needs that here, too; Medea deserves to know that as much as he'd needed to know her name.]


. . . Your revenge is yours to take care of. I'm not involved in all that. But I will secure your future, even if you can't.
impostorsyndrome: (life: a blessing in disguise)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-06-14 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He meets her eyes and nods firmly, squeezing her hand back in turn. A pact. Kadoc is a shy, retiring soul, who avoids being touched or making eye contact much of the time, but this is different. Here he has something to fight for, now, and he knows what it is and that he'll do anything he can to secure it.

The only issue is how.

In spirit, this feels like a pact between Master and Servant, stepping up onto the stage of the Holy Grail War. In reality, it's nothing of the sort. Not only can Kadoc not command her, but he can't make use of another important aspect of a Command Spell either: overcoming magical limitations with the weight of the contract. They have to approach this entirely differently than they'd probably both like. And beyond that, he hadn't been kidding about Medea's revenge: he'll protect her however he can against Archer and anyone else who comes for her, and take her corner as a Master, especially if Archer brings his own along for the show. But Kadoc isn't inclined to dole out any punishment himself if it comes down to that. If Medea loses, she loses. What matters is that she lives, and avoids the very worst outcomes of despair and alienation that this could lead to.

This is too much thinking. Kadoc lets her hand fall away from his, only to press his to his head and rub through his hair. No more of this circling inside himself; he has to start with what she already knows.]


Tell me what your plan is for all this. I know you have one. That's your Noble Phantasm, isn't it?
impostorsyndrome: (a thing that seems good to a scientist)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-06-22 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I've been wondering about that. What is it?

[He can tell it does something. Here in Avalon, Kadoc's lost any skill he once had in being sensitive to magic or sussing out its nature through exposure; it's like a sense of his is gone, and he's only just beginning to be used to it. And yet he can tell just looking at that thing that it's something powerful, and important. He eyes it, and then looks back up to her face, as if the answer might be waiting for him there.]
impostorsyndrome: (the grandfather wanteth the enemy)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-06-27 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
—You're gonna fuse with your familiar?

[Whoa whoa whoa, hey now, this is magic he's familiar with, and to say it fucked things up immensely . . . well, it had worked and all, but Kadoc still can't look at it quite neutrally. It's a fraught topic! Explaining the yaga is way beyond what he can get into right now as they're gearing up for battle, but he at least has to know:]

Temporarily, right? You're sure? You're not gonna go twisting your spirit origin permanently for the sake of this?
impostorsyndrome: (you're not brainwashed)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-06-28 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
You'd be surprised when it comes to manipulating the core of what makes you human. Yeah, you're a Heroic Spirit, not exactly a human anymore, but the principle's the same.

. . . Just be careful.

[If there's a way here to do this, maybe there's a way to undo it too. He doesn't know. But he's not going to talk her out of it, is he? He sighs and fusses with his hair, but then he just shrugs, arms crossing.]
impostorsyndrome: (exactly like a box of chocolates)

[personal profile] impostorsyndrome 2021-07-13 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry. I've got my reasons not to die here.

[But he can feel that prickle at his back, the blaze beginning to fan up even higher. That can't be let to get out of control—he'd come here partially for that reason too, but what the hell can he do about it? It'd been smaller on video, and he'd had stupid thoughts of maybe encasing the whole area in a Light bubble to choke the air out of it. That may have been possible half an hour ago, if he could get a good vantage point, but now? He's at a loss. Hell, maybe he should borrow that dagger, fuse with his own familiar, and hope he ends up with the frost magic he knows the hydra should rightfully have.

Well, but wait a second here. He turns his head to his familiar, hanging there around his neck passively, with a surprised jerk.]


—Can you do something about the flames? We've gotta contain this before everyone dies without anyone getting to the vengeance part. It's served its purpose.

[His familiar says nothing. Kadoc's pretty sure it can't form speech anyway, even though it clearly understands it. With a soft thud, it unwinds from him and lands on the ground, and slithers towards the edge of the blazing forest.]