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-> ''The Holy Grail War. A battle between the greatest opponents, meant only to find who is worthy enough to possess the legendary, omnipotent wish granting device. The rules, this time, were different.''

-> ''"I am the Overseer, Jeanne d'Arc, the class of Ruler. Don't worry.'' ''I will handle anything if it gets out of control."''

Years have passed since Lord El Melloi II dismantled the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Greater Grail of Fuyuki City]]. The system was completely torn apart, the pieces scattered across the world on the winds, and the practice forbidden. It was thought the barbaric tradition of the Holy Grail War had finally been put to rest. It would have been nice if that was the truth.

Archwood City, USA. A bustling island metropolis, located somewhere along the coast of California. Something here happened recently. An anomaly. Something that never should have occurred. At least not on its own. A new Holy Grail War has begun spontaneously, with no outside interference. What's worse, the system is irregular. Servants can now be summoned in numbers exceeding the original seven. Normal people and magi alike are being snatched off the street to fill the Grail's need for new Masters. A Servant, Jeanne d'Arc of the Ruler class, has been assigned the role of Overseer, with no prior appointment from the Church. And what's most alarming are the rumors. Rumors circulating that the Grail the Ruler speaks of may in fact be the genuine article.

There's a storm brewing over Archwood City. It will only be by good fortune that anyone is left alive when it passes.

The forum RP meant to succeed the wildly popular Fate/Festival of Epics, Fate oath/alternative is an ambitious project headed by {{Tropers/RagnaTheSaviour}}, and co-[=GMed=] by {{Tropers/KSPAM}} and the former head GM of Festival of Epics, {{Tropers/daltar}}. The RP proved to be just as successful as its predecessor, signups filling up quickly. Within two months, the RP had already begun, and reached over 1000 posts.

The RP moves quickly, and new Servants and Masters are always welcomed. Canon Servants are, barring a few notable exceptions, allowed, although [=OCs=] are preferred for both Masters and Servants. You can find the signups [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13397352810A32040100&page=1 here.]] For any questions, the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13399971340A69260100&page=1 discussion]] is open and available to all who are considering/currently participating.


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!!This forum RPG contains the following tropes:
* AbandonedLaboratory: The aptly named Abandoned Mansion, home to a Dead Apostle and the Servant Rider, otherwise known as the Black Death.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Archwood Underground, roughly based on the real life [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground Seattle Underground]].
* AlternateUniverse: While never outright stated, it's implied this world is a different one than the one shown in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. This is most likely due to the creators wanting to keep certain conflicting canon details ambiguous.
%%* AmusementPark: [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Brunestudland]], [[MythologyGag Kingdom of the Moon!]]
* AmusementParkOfDoom: The area around the {{Hall of Mirrors}}, which conceals Evander's {{Elaborate Underground Base}}.
* AngstNuke: The Black Knight, who reduced a UsefulNotes/McDonalds to smoldering rubble in a fit of rage. Poor [=McDonalds=]...
%%* ArchEnemies: [[Myth/GreekMythology Perseus and Medusa]], naturally.
%%* TheBerserker: Berserker, [[{{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}} obviously.]]
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Jeanne gets pissed, ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13399952380A59060100&page=42#1046 she gets pissed.]]''
%%* BowAndSwordInAccord: Bow and Sword and Spear and Daggers in Accord -- Diomedes, due to a combination of his skills and Noble Phantasms.
%%* BreakThemByTalking: Perseus inadvertently does this to Jeanne after she interrupts his attempt to kill both Medusa and Vladimir.
* BreakTheCutie: Perseus does this to Jeanne via speech, and The Black Knight does this to Jeanne via AngstNuke in the middle of the city. Let's just say that Jeanne isn't taking it well.
* ButtMonkey:
** Not a person, but Jeanne's church doors have been brutalized by every Servant to swing by. And the doors suffer a fatal blow, courtesy of Perseus.
%%** Jeanne herself, to an extent.
* {{Card Carrying Villain}}: The Black Knight, whose entire purpose as a Servant is to play the role of villain, both in an in-story and meta-perspective.
* TheChewToy: Spartacus, who has so far been stabbed in the gut, set on fire, flayed alive, slashed deep in the side, speared in multiple places by [[{{BloodyMurder}} bloody lances]], set on fire ''again'', and smashed in the face with a maul. [[{{NighInvulnerable}} He's still going.]]
%%* {{City of Adventure}}: Archwood City.
%%* {{Classy Cat Burglar}}: Jesse, although "classy" is debatable.
%%* {{Combat Pragmatist}}: Archer and Shapur. Honorable mention goes to Khan, who fights with a ''[[{{WhyDontYouJustShootHim}} freaking army.]]''
%%* {{Combat Sadomasochist}}: Spartacus. Spartacus, Spartacus, Spartacus.
* {{Crapsack World}}: Or at least a crapsack city. Needless to say, with the presence of more than twenty highly destructive nature spirits on very loose and lazily-minded leashes, Archwood is quickly becoming a very scary place to live.
%%* {{Curbstomp Battle}}: Enkidu vs. Shakespeare, and holy shit how.
%%** Add [[spoiler: Guan Yu and his Master]] to the list.
%%* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Archer, in usual form.
%%* {{Deus Sex Machina}}
* {{Establishing Character Moment}}: Spartacus' first fight, in which we learn the depths of his dedication to his... unique ideology. Also, Jesse gets one when she summons Perseus and immediately follows it up by ''[[{{DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale}} raping]]'' [[{{RapeAsComedy}} him]].
%%* {{Expy}}: A number of them, and to a number of different franchises no less.
%%* {{Fanservice}}: JESSE. BY GOD, JESSE.
%%* {{Food Porn}}: Emilia and Enkidu's lunch at Okeanos.
* FromBadToWorse: First the Black Knight causes mass destruction, and then Snake [[spoiler: blows up the Atlus spire]] on the First Day. [[TemptingFate Things couldn't possible go more wrong, right?]]
** Cue the morning of the Second Day, where Aaron [[spoiler: becomes a Dead Apostle]], a large horde of undead are unleashed upon the city [[spoiler: upon Kaleb's death]], and [[spoiler: Jack The Ripper gains a somewhat mortal body]]. It's also implied that there's even ''more'' to come.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Taken literally with Perseus after facing Medusa. Somewhat justified by the fact that when he went to slay Medusa, she was a horror-inducing EldritchAbomination who's very appearance could lead to MindRape. It's a miracle he isn't a Berserker.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Orit]], on the spear of her Servant no less. Though he didn't mean to.
* {{Gorn}}: Whenever Jack or Kaleb are around people, you can expect this to inevitably happen within the next couple of seconds.
%%* {{Historical Domain Character}}: A given.
%%* {{Ho Yay}}: Oh so many examples. But it's especially blatant between Jesse and Felicia.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Quite a few of them. Most notably, Mike.
* KillItWithFire: A side effect of Khan's whip, which is basically white hot razor wire.
%%* {{Knight of Cerebus}}: Snake, and by extension Emilia.
%%* {{Large Ham}}: Theodore Roosevelt. The Black Knight is a villainous example.
* {{Ley Line}}: Archwood is covered by a unusually large web of them, and places where they cross are strategically useful in the War. Jeanne lists off a few locations where they intersect, such as Brunestudland, the Abandoned Manor, and Brine Beach. Also, supposedly, the Grail will materialize at the spot where every single line meets.
%%* TheMasquerade: Still in place. Although how long that will last is debatable...
* MightyGlacier: Over the course of the War, Shapur the Great has taken attacks from Diomedes, Khan's mongol soldiers and Khan's golden whip. He only felt the last one.
** As of the ghetto melee, he was finally dealt a blow that put him out of a fight, almost for good. Courtesy of [[{{WorldsStrongestMan}} Enkidu]], of course, which really just serves to show how tough Shapur actually is.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When [[spoiler: Robin Hood kills Kaleb]]. To elaborate, it was originally thought that he was the one The Dead were tied to, when they were actually tied into his [[spoiler: grimoire]]. Now that he's dead, the Dead who were all under his control and calmly carrying out his tasks are now mindlessly attacking the city and all its people through pure instinct. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Jack The Ripper]] has also been granted a slightly mortal body.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Genghis Khan can summon groups of undead mongols.
%%* {{Rich Bitch}}: Emilia, most notably. Jesse as well.
* {{Shout Out}}: A number of locations in Archwood are this to the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its prequel, Literature/FateZero. Take for instance the seafood restaurant Okeanos or the jewelry store, The King's Treasury.
%%* SingleStrokeBattle: Diomedes tried to pull one on Shapur, but he didn't count on Shapur's heavy armor.
%%* {{Spam Attack}}: Most Lancers prefer this kind of attack.
* SuccubiAndIncubi: Jesse, who is more than 7/8 succubus.
* {{Troll}}: Scáthach as well, who's even gone so far as to outright admit she loves getting a reaction out of people (usually her Master).
* UnskilledButStrong: Aaron has no fighting skills, but that doesn't matter when he's practically a Dead Apostle. He can throw park benches with little effort and clot his blood in seconds through the use of his biomancy.
%%* {{We Hardly Knew Ye}}: Shakespeare. For all that talk about writing a good story, his certainly ended quickly...
* {{Wham Episode}}: Midnight of the first day. Up until then, things had been relatively light-hearted. Then Snake [[spoiler: bombed the Atlas Spire.]]
%%* {{Womb Level}}: The Abandoned Mansion, due to the influence of the Black Death.
%%* {{World of Badass}}: Overlapping with World of Woobie and {{World of Ax Crazy}}.
%%* {{Zombie Apocalypse}}: One seems to be on the horizon... ...and it finally comes with Kaleb's death.
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