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Premise Okeanos has been conquered a long while ago and yet there is yet ANOTHER observed irregularity in the middle of the ocean. The waters are eerily calm, the sky is clear with only a few white clouds dotting the sky. There is no land in sight. What is there instead, but a titan of a cruise ship full of luxuries such as fully furnished bedrooms, an indoor waterpark, an equipped gym for exercise and sports, an industrial kitchen with a stocked cabinet of food supplies, a ballroom, a mini-golf course, bowling... And more! The Servants of Chaldea aren't slackers by any means, but a little more fun can't hurt, right? But maybe this time around, things won't be as straightforward as it seems... "Chaldea Phantasm" is an open sandbox RP post for players to roleplay in the setting based on the mobile game, Fate Grand Order and the Fate franchise. You can play out scenarios between Master and Servant(s), Servants fighting each other, monsters, material/event grinding, AUs, etc. This post will have actual prompts that can be used at your leisure! Otherwise, feel free to write up your own scenario. A) Waku Waku Splash! A certain child king has brought it upon himself to deck out the indoor swimming pool with his own personal touches so everyone can have an exciting and enjoyable experience. There's a current pool, a wave pool, a HUGE water slide, and even pools for diving and racing. You know what this means! Swimsuits! There are rules in place to keep the peace and one of them is of particular note. "Troublemakers will be banned from Waku Waku if they are caught misbehaving, disturbing and/or be harassing our female guests. The following guests have been banned:" Archer (Gilgamesh - Adult) Archer (David) Saber (Gawain) Saber (Fergus mac Róic) Lancer (Fionn mac Cumhaill) Lancer (Cu Chulainn) Lancer (Leonidas) Berserker (Spartacus) Caster (Merlin) Caster (Mozart) Rider (Blackbeard) "Thank you and have a nice day. If you have questions for the management and want to protest your ban please talk to Heracles." Honestly, it really is up to you whether you take this ban list seriously or not... B) Fate/Grand Blue This is your more general SOL prompt. Have a walk around the beautiful cruise ship. Enjoy the blue sky! Maybe do some fishing. Raid the fridge or wait until the Kitchen Moms of Chaldea create a fantastic spread for everyone. Reenact that scene from the Titanic (except the boat sinking part). There's a karaoke machine in one of the lounges that might be fun to do! C) A Study in Ocean Blue SPECIAL EVENT A body has been found in the ballroom! The poor deceased man looks as if he was the captain of the ship. There may be several clues littered around the ballroom and into the captain's quarters that may lead to an answer! Or not? Make sure the body doesn't disappear and don't run into ghosts on the bottom floors of the ship if you try to solve this mystery! (For this prompt, feel free to write the mystery any way you want! Comedy option is that the body disappears, serious option, it was ghosts.) E) Fatal Battle!? Something sinister and monstrous this way comes. The more keen-eyed and alert Servants may have noticed a presence that has marked this oceanic singularity as a threat and it comes in the form of a titanic Water Dragon. The cruise ship trembles as the beast approaches, angry that its territory has been invaded. Hopefully, our more skilled Riders will take the wheel and navigate around it safely, but it's up to you to subdue the dragon and try not to get swallowed whole, there's a whole other level inside and maybe valuable mats and a Grail!?. Good luck with your Boss Battle! Basic Guidlines ➢ In the subject line or in your opening thread, please say if you're opting in or out for spoilers! ➢ If you have a fanmade Servant, please try to link to information or have a quick summary of your character! Likewise with cross-canon characters with a Fate/AU. ➢ Be kind and courteous to one another about spoilers, please! ➢ If stuff gets mildly NSFW or something just mark your threads and we'll be good to go! ➢ A high seas adventure...?

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[painalty]

[At this point, he's just infuriated. His face might be a little flushed out of embarrassment. No, that's not a sunburn. No really, it's not.

His tone is dry when he responds, and before he speaks, he glances up briefly at the sky as if seeking some sort of divine intervention. Oh wait, the divine intervention is right here and it's not quite the one he's looking for. If he weren't a stuffy gentleman he would've already let out a string of French curses.]

Yes, but I told you, I didn't need one. I can swim just fine.

[ninanna]

That's true, but treading water takes effort. Something like this will help you relax!

[Sorry your vessel of relaxation is actually a vehicle of embarrassment.]

[painalty]

Still, one can relax even while exerting minimal effort.

[He slowly extricates himself from the unicorn floaty, but nonetheless holds on to it and gestures to the water.

A VEHICLE OF EMBARRASSMENT INDEED

But who knows, he might just...use it anyway.]

Ladies first, I suppose.

[ninanna]

[Happily she jumps in with the shark floaty underneath her. She holds onto its handles and shoots him a bright, inviting smile.]

Your turn!

[painalty]

[Sanson shuts his eyes when she jumps with her shark floaty as if expecting another tidal wave. It doesn't come, of course.

He sighs. How many times has he sighed around this goddess. Look, he's only doing this to make sure she doesn't steal the kids' floaties, gosh. But partly because he does want to cool off, in more ways than one.]

All right.

[After a moment's thought, he slips the unicorn back over his head and around him. If the other Servants saw him right now THEY WOULD HAVE A FIELD DAY.

Then he jumps, but with considerably less energy and more with resignation.]

A raft might've been preferable so I can read, but... [Nope. Absolutely nope, after the range of Ishtar's wave awhile ago.]

[ninanna]

Why read when you have the company of a goddess to enjoy! Or even the other servants! You have friends, don't you Mr. Gloomy?

[She floats close and purposefully bumps his floaty playfully.]

[painalty]

[He flinches when she bumps into him, and he just props up his elbow gently on one side of the floaty so he can rest his cheek on his hand while his other hand grips the handle on the other side.

Essentially, Sanson looks every inch like a Mr. Gloomy.

That remark about friends causes him to blush...and yet, there is a hesitation.]

Er...o-of course I do! [Just not a lot. He's not even sure if some of them would call him a friend.] And don't call me Mr. Gloomy!

[ninanna]

What name would you prefer, then?

[Go on. Tell her your full name, Sanson. She dares you.]

[painalty]

...

[He could tell her to simply call him "Assassin" but there are so many Assassins on this ship already. Sanson already has a long list of names used for him in his lifetime - there's his given name, simply "Sanson", the "Great Sanson", "Charlot"...]

Sanson. Sanson is fine. [It wasn't like any other member of his family made it to the Throne of Heroes, anyway.]

[ninanna]

Well then, Mr. Sadsod, it's time to have some fun!

[Ishtar situates herself behind him and grabs onto the ring of his horse floaty. From there she starts propelling them forward at a somewhat alarming speed. They're going to be zooming around the pool!]

[painalty]

[There are so many things he did not sign up for in that tag alone. And his name may be infamous, but at least say it right!]

It's San-son - [His voice dies on his lips when he finds himself pitched forward, and he has to hang on with both hands as the spray from their speed drenches him along the way.]

What aaaaare you doooooing?!

[ninanna]

[She got it wrong on purpose. Nicknames are much more fun.]

Yahoo!

[Is all the answer he gets as she speeds him around the length of the pool. When they've made a lap and a half she'll slow down a little.]

[painalty]

[Rest in pieces.

Sanson grits his teeth and bears the rest of the trip, his hair whipping about as they go.

Also "a little" IS NOT ENOUGH.]

C-Can't we do anything else?!

[ninanna]

[Ishtar stops both of them in a dead halt. Which might give Sanson some whiplash.]

Do you have something in mind?

[painalty]

[And whiplash happens. Sanson is pitched forward when they come to a sudden stop, and he would've been hurled straight into the water, head first, if he hadn't been hanging on for dear life.

Give him time to gather himself and...let his heart resume beating at normal speed.]

Maybe...something that isn't so fast. You said you wanted to help me relax!

[ninanna]

I suppose I did, didn't I?

[The floatys squeak as they press together when she leans forward. Her head rests on his shoulder as her hands reach out to settle on his.]

You're so high-strung that I thought maybe I could loosen you up. Even if you're at rest a coiled spring just sitting around isn't all that relaxed. Don't you agree?

[Her voice is low and soft. His ear is right there, so there's no need to be any louder.]

[painalty]

[Wait, he didn't ask for an assault on his personal space! He stiffens where he is...DON'T TOUCH HIM, HE'S A BLOODSTAINED MAN.

She kind of makes sense, but...]

I never said I had to sit around. I just... [Sanson would gesture if she weren't holding his hands and if he weren't holding on to the handles of the floaty.]

Some people don't relax as easily as others and won't relax the way others do, haven't you noticed?

[ninanna]

[SHE'S A GODDESS OF WAR. BLOODSTAINED MEN ARE HOT.]

Then tell me, how do you relax? Ah, and I better not hear another word about that book. It's still got to have time to dry.

[painalty]

[DO NOT TRY TO HIT ON THIS BLOODSTAINED MAN, ISHTAR. BAD IDEA. BAD IDEA.

Also why is she still close to him. His cheeks start to feel a little hot...]

Er...I have a cup of tea, take walks, and sometimes I play the violin...

[If this keeps up he's going to swim away like the shy sod he is.]

[ninanna]

[Ishtar's existence is a bad idea.]

Oh? So you're good with your fingers?

[painalty]

[He blinks, and then frowns. Something is wrong with this picture and he doesn't like how wrong it is and where this is going.

His face is still red. Redder, in fact.

Sanson blurts out the next few words a little too hastily.]

Yes, apart from playing the violin I am very good at killing people with my fingers.

[PLEASE LET GO OF HIM NOW.]

[ninanna]

[The goddess laughs. Her hands leave his so that she may throw her arms around his neck and press herself up against his back.]

Oh, you are? Me too! Ah, I usually use my powers as a goddess to do the killing, but my physical strength isn't too bad either!

[painalty]

[A soft but strangled sound issues from his lips when he feels her draping herself on his back. Plus, she's not repulsed by him describing his fingers as weapons of death. Why is this his life. Sanson straddles the line between "leave me alone I'm a sinner" and "sob people are leaving me alone I'm terrible" right now and he's not sure where he ought to be.]

Ah, yes. You are the goddess of war and combat, among others.

[She's a goddess. She's probably more entitled to kill people and not be ostracized for it. Ishtar wasn't like him at all.

Yet it's comforting in some twisted way to know they had that in common.]

A-Aren't you uncomfortable leaning on my back like that?

[ninanna]

Why would I be? You're like a piece of furniture to rest on.

[In fact she rests her chin on his shoulder and leans her head into the curve of his neck.]

[painalty]

I-I-I'm not a piece of furniture!

[FLUSTER FLUSTER.

Then again he's relatively tall and solidly built enough to be as sturdy as furniture.]

Maybe you should find something - or someone - else to rest on.

[Sanson glances over his shoulder at Ishtar for a brief moment, takes a deep breath, and lets go of the floaty handles. That can have only one result - he lets himself sink right through and below the surface.

Her next glimpse is of him swimming below the surface a short distance away.]