January Boon Requests

[fairyfoes]

Hey fairybroskis! You know what time it is? Boon time!

Requests are up, which means the fairies and imps are out and about bothering people from their respective factions to note down the number one item on their wishlist again!




Wherever Shardbearer characters are in the Drabwurld, at some point today they will be approached by fairies or imps, depending on their alignment, bearing a piece of parchment and a quill. They will urge your character to write down a request for an item, power or favour from their monarchs in exchange for fighting or supporting their faction and they will take it away through a fairy-ring when it is written. There are three easy rules your character will be informed MUST NOT be broken:

1) "Do not call for time and space to be bent to your will!"

2) "You may not request another's true love or devotion!"

3) "Ask not for a road home or the loved ones whence you came!"

Essentially, the OOC boundaries relayed through IC means to your character are to avoid game-breaking demands being made. They will be approved, altered or denied here until 24th JANUARY (00:01am LONDON GMT) so that when your character receives their boon on the morning of 25th (you can pick any time for them to be delivered/show up) no matter where they are there is no fuss, no muss!

This month, everybody who participated in war preparations gets a boon! Feel free to link to any threads (completed or ongoing) that will show your character getting involved in the event this month: only actual participation (not referenced participation) will warrant a boon. For those using quest logs to count as both quest material and as boons, you could have gone a good measure over minimum wordcount to receive your boon: ideally having another 200 words or so.

So, want a boon? Simply C&P the below into your comment:



<b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>FACTION:</b> <b>RELEVANT THREAD(S):</b> <a href="PASTE LINK HERE">Link #1</a> <a href="PASTE LINK HERE">Link #2</a> Please make sure to link to anything that indicates your character participated in war preparations! <b><u>BOON REQUEST</u>:</b> <b>POSSIBLE ALTERATIONS:</b> If you think your boon is a little too awkward, put some suggestions here for how we might alter it and still manage to grant the request. Bear in mind that if you opt for a WILDCARD, it could be COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED: for example, you could just as soon end up with an elephant as a packet of peanuts. Otherwise, make sure to mention something you think your character might want! Wildcard boons will almost always be done after the boons of characters with concrete requests, and for this reason are likely to take longer.



If your character doesn't want to request a boon they may simply wave away the fairies/imps. It is not possible to "save up" Boon Requests for later events, so make sure to get yours in if you want one! Please try to think of a boon to suggest; wildcard boons will likely be saved for last.

Comments

[gandere]

CHARACTER NAME: Rin Tohsaka.
CANON: Fate/Stay Night.
FACTION: Unseelie.
RELEVANT THREAD(S):

• Quest! - Speaking with Celebwen to ensure that any Seelie troops that pass through the Loch have some enjoyable nightmares.
• Commission! - Speaking with the General of the Unseelie forces to bolster their communications. While this thread is mostly complete, there will be a log up soon for installation once details are sorted out.
• She will also be on the front lines assisting with wards and boundary fields. This has been referenced to here and here. There's a log up to discuss it further with other relevant parties here.
• She's also managing a lacrosse team?? That... counts... right??

BOON REQUEST: "In my world there exists a particular dagger that can sever any familiar's bond with their master. Bring it to me. If you must know a name for it, the dagger I seek is the Rule Breaker: All Spells Must Be Broken."
POSSIBLE ALTERATIONS: “This is a sword of negation and betrayal, that nullifies every kind of magecraft in the world.”

Rin is asking for the Noble Phantasm / magical artifact that belongs to a Servant which is the biggest stretch in Fate/Stay Night but it is what it is. Seriously, how did Caster get this, who knows!!! The Rule Breaker is a dagger that can sever the bond between a familiar and a Master. In the context of Fate/Stay Night it transfers the Command Seals over to Caster when she uses it against Archer and Saber as well as their pacts. Since Rin is no Caster class Servant, I think a good adjustment would be that it can break the bond, but can't transfer the power over to her (so no additional Command Spells or familiars). As a ceremonial dagger, it has no real value in combat even if the blade is sharp enough to cut cleanly through bone. Rin does have the magical potential to wield a weapon like this (as she's used a more powerful one in another route) so it's a matter of whether or not she can claim something that belongs to another.

If she can't receive an item like that, something to help her multiple businesses will be fine. Workers, supplies, or anything of that nature that could be waiting for her down south would be suitable.

[gandere]

Oh I forgot her IC justification for this, sorry! Since it's been used against her personally she's aware of the existence of this item.

-She doesn't approve of Morgana's pact with Saber which is what stemmed the thought originally.
-She's spoken to Harry re: Linn and feels it would be beneficial to have an item like this in case things go wrong.

[fairyfoes]

BOON APPROVED

She'll receive the knife! All it can do is sever the bonds, not transfer them. But with it is a letter which reveals the catch:

It can only be used once, at which point it will shatter, and become simple sand.

[gandere]

Rin quietly asks under her breath if they are capable of giving her anything useful without some condition attached to it.

(but squeaks thank you, obviously won't be used without permission and plotting, etc)