bit late for the xmas party but nevermind

[andthesun]

Ah. This is...

[ Karna stepped into the battlefield to find out that the entire thing has been replaced by the Plaza. He looked around, by all means looking as bored as ever, although there is a hint of being bothered underneath his nonchalant expression. He sighed, lowering his lance but keeping it by his side. ]

...an inconvenience. [ After all, he had been ordered to fight the Lancer of Black, and, although this entire thing is beyond his control and not to be concerned about (he had a legendary bad luck, after all), it is still inconvenient. He turned to the nearest person, his tone polite and aloof, but at the same time there is the vaguest hint of a threat. ]

Where is the way out?

[ To all passersby: there is now a young man dressed in an elaborate-looking armour with an equally matching lance and red cape, and he's kind of...fairly underdressed for this season. For those of you magically inclined, he's also exuding magical energy...very much so. Thankfully, he's not under one of those mistletoes yet, so he's still free to move. He had a somewhat bored expression, his fine features regal and distant. You might be the lucky person who either both spotted him entering the Plaza and being asked, or merely the latter. Either way, the Heroic Spirit is talking to you. ]

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[sumarusfinest]

One magically inclined catches another's eye. The officer frowns slightly, though whether it's because of the aura this young man gives off or because of his lack of sensible dress for the season it's difficult to say.

"I would suppose that would depend on which doorway you entered from, do you know the way you've come in?" Katsuya pauses then, before a question of his own slips out.

"Aren't you cold?"

[andthesun]

The way I've come in? [ Karna echoed the question, trying to remember. ] I don't think so. I must have slipped through it in the middke of the battle. If so--

[ Vlad and the Holy Grail is still there, waiting for him. Karna felt his heart race faster. He doesn't think he could survive on his own without a Master, anyway, not with a physical body, and if this is another dimension...

He raised an eyebrow at what the man said next, cutting Karna's train of thought short. ]

No. I'm a Servant, and our physical bodies are stronger than yours. The weather doesn't affect us. [ Karna doesn't blame him if he's never seen one, especially one such as him. ]

[sumarusfinest]

"A servant of what, exactly?"

The way the man says it, it sounds an awful lot like he's calling himself a demon or a Persona. Katsuya thinks to his own power, to Helios. The creature is very human looking, save for the catlike head and tail. Dressed oddly not unlike the man standing before him. If that's the case, would the real body be somewhere else?

It's all too much for him to wrap his head around.

"Are you human?"

[andthesun]

[ Karna raised an eyebrow at his question. Obviously this man has never heard of the Holy Grail War, and if this is a different dimension... ]

Of the Holy Grail War. Seven Servants fight each other for the Grail, but this time seven more Servants have been summoned. I am the Lancer of Red, true name Karna.

[ The man's next question is predictable, and Karna answered it without breaking a sweat. ]

I am a Heroic Spirit summoned for the purposes of the Holy Grail War. In another words-- [ he paused briefly ] --a hero. You could call me that.