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[Such a wondrous device. Are there little invisible couriers for these messages?]

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[warriorscribe]

If you know, I might be able to spare you the pain of dealing with it. If I can stop any harm from happening at all because of it, I would like to do so. Would you be willing to share your information?

Philosopher's stones aren't something I know, no, but Greed, that is, @Greed, does. He's the one who told me about them. Apparently they are powered by horrific sacrificial rituals, and, like your Grail, can do nearly anything.

[croi]

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they're similar.
how well can you handle yourself in a fight?
it's important

[warriorscribe]

[He is aware he is from the past and he's going to make that an advantage if it kills him. Timeline disruption, what's that?]

Well enough to have defeated four Fallen Angels in direct combat. I assume I'll have to fight my way to it, then?

[croi]

you do, acutally, but i was more asking because on the off chance someone i know shows up and they learn i told you about the grail i might get geased and have to try to kill you.
it wouldn't be personal. you seem like an alright guy.
but, you don't just lay something like that on someone who can't defend themselves.

[warriorscribe]

I'm physically capable even without my powers.

[For now. He's not eating enough food for his metabolism all the time, partially owing to the limited space in his backpack.]

But, what is it to be "geased"?

[croi]

i'll keep it simple
magically compelled to do something
if you got geased to run out in the snow naked you probably wouldn't be able to stop yourself.

[warriorscribe]

But if this person you fear were to arrive here, wouldn't they be stripped of their powers as well?

[Horrifying as it sounds, the stripping of free will - he's dealt with being someone's puppet before and he's not willing to handle it again - this thought is immediate comfort. Nobody but whatever force drove him out of the school can do that here - and once they find that, it won't be able to, either.]

[croi]

i'm not too worried. honestly.
if my boss shows up? there's a lot of people out there. why would they pick him?
and if they picked him he'd be stuck trying to survive like the rest of us.
and like you said they take away our powers.
but it's something they have to do, which means they could miss somebody (and given my luck it would be that bastard)
and it could be reversed and we get our powers back.
which means that six months from now he shows up, we undo what they did, he geases me, and i run around trying to silence everyone.
i really don't think that would happen but i thought you'd appreciate being warned before i just laid it on you and then went oh by the way, i could be geased and told to kill you if this one guy shows up.

[warriorscribe]

[He has to reread it multiple times before his exhausted mind can comprehend it. His reply takes a while to show up.]

I understand. I'll accept the risks. Tell me about the Grail's creation.

[croi]

its pretty simple.
7 magi are chosen to fight for the grail. they are the masters.
they summon 7 heroic spirits as servants
(legendary figures, so hercules was there, i fought medea, gilgamesh was around...but msot of us are past your time)
we fight to the death. only after 6 servants are killed does the grail appear.
i'm one of them.

[warriorscribe]

["Gilgamesh"? That name sounds familiar. He's too worn out to think on it much.]

I see. That's terrible, forcing these people to fight like this.

But what does this have to do with the time I come from and the Grail's creation?

[Because if he can prevent it from happening somehow? That sounds like it would be best.]

[croi]

we were fighting for a replica.
the real one was probably made in your time.
maybe earlier? PROBABLy earlier.

[warriorscribe]

Then where could I find the real one? Or how could I prevent these replicas from being made? It sounds as if the world would be better off without it.

[Yes he is thinking about unraveling history for this thing. It sounds much better than it is to his tired mind. He doesn't even have the energy to ponder how he's supposed to have learned about it if he prevents the war Lancer was summoned for in the first place.]

[croi]

if i knew that you'd think the magi would have us fighting for a replica in the first place?
besides, you came several hundred years before i did.
you'd probably know more than i do.
assuming we came from the same earth in the first place

[It's cool, bro, one of his rivals is the AU future version of another rival of his, his universe and chronology can handle it.]