Log: Holy Grail War

[colchismagecraft]

🧙 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!]

Comments

tw self injury / familiar fusion

[colchismagecraft]

Saber.

[Her own voice was calm- having taken the time to prepare herself for the battle ahead- And Saber was one she'd expected. Caster knew she couldn't afford to waste any time in this fight. Not with someone as fast as Saber was.

And so, her grip on the enchanted dragon fang in her hand tightened, before she drove it deep into her chest.

A pulse of power ripped through her body as her familiar caught light and melted into her, the flames burning through her body and building up in her eyes and chest- a hollow opening up to expose the bone. Ripples shot through Caster's back, skeletal wings and tail bursting out.

Even for one who'd been working with this world's magic as much as Caster had- the burst of magic was temporarily overwhelming- and the witch gave a pained scream as cursed darkness started flooding around her.]

SABER!!

[excalibeam]

[ Saber's eyes widen, but she doesn't stop. She recognizes that Caster has done... something and intends to fight. Despite her rage, she will not kill her... but she will not hold back either. ]

EX...!

[ It wasn't nearly as powerful as what her Holy Sword was truly capable of, but it was still something. She raises her invisible sword above her head the instant she saw her fuse with her familiar, and the invisibility turns into a burst of light as Saber brings down her sword. ]

...CALIBUR!!

[ Light Magic... she'd practiced enough with it to be able to mimic the light of her Holy Sword with a powerful beam of light. It wasn't nearly as explosive, nor was it capable of scorching to earth... but it was fast, and with the output that Saber was using... not enough to kill anyone.

Though it certainly wouldn't tickle either. ]

[colchismagecraft]

[Well, the light was enough to break through the darkness she'd been calling around herself by way of defence- but it kept flowing. The Sorceress moving her arms widely, bringing shadow upon shadow upon shadow to buffer the light.

The attack hit, Caster folding the skeletal wings around herself to shield her body from the worst- causing the bones to crack.

But then the cloud of darkness descended. A burst of power choking with curses to try and slow her down- hurt her- anything to slow the other Servant down.]

[excalibeam]

[ Saber was a bad matchup for Caster in the Holy Grail War. Her Magic Resistance made everything that Caster could throw at her moot and pointless, aside from her Noble Phantasm of course. It's not the same here, but... they're still a bad matchup.

Saber knows what to expect from a Sorceress like her, after all, and Light and Dark Magic counteracted each other rather well.

She released the light keeping her sword invisible to focus on a different form of Light Magic. As the cloud of darkness descended on her, a large barrier of light formed around her, protecting her from the dark magic.

Long enough for her to switch to Elemental Magic, and as the barrier of light dissipates... ]

STRIKE AIR!!

[ She thrusts her sword forward, wreathed in wind as the barrier dissipates. The wind intending to not only blow away the cloud of darkness, but blast away Caster as well with this concentrated gale of swirling wind. ]