My own summary is that Fate is a battle royale where wizards summon human spirits, essentially as written by a Japanese S.M. Stirling.
Expanding, magic users in this setting are culturally inclined to be evil (or at least amoral), secretive, and elitist. Whether the magic system actually requires this is unclear. I think there is a case that it is merely an in universe legitimating narrative. Magic users are generally involved in multigenerational efforts to improve the family magics in order to do something to reality that reality actively resists. Letting scruples get in the way of research is frowned upon.
The core conflict of the series involves a serial tournament started as a horror, per our standards, by a small group of mage families. It went off the rails in the third iteration, and got worse afterwords each time.
The first media property covers three alternate timelines of the fifth iteration. This was an H VN. A Let's Play of the non-H version can be found on the internet. The fourth iteration is covered in a LN for which a translation can be found on the internet. Other stories in the same universe include Tsukihime, which involves vampires, Kara no Kyoukai, which has some really horrific magical experimentation, and Angel Notes, which is supposed to be after the Earth has been killed.
As for my question, in both cases I was assuming it was Doug acting as a master, and summoning a servant.
Item summoning works by way of the item's ties to a legendary human hero. The stick would give Bimawen, the handsome monkey king, stone monkey, the great sage equal to heaven, except he probably doesn't count, and would probably be an uncontrollable problem if he did. Unless Doug actively tracks down something, then participates while aware of what is going on, this is probably a question about his inventory.
As for affinity summoning, an indiscriminate serial killer called up Bluebeard, and they did many horrible things together. It is sort of a personality question, or a request for suggestions, with the understanding that history and legend can be very flexible.
As for summoning Doug, I always kind of figured it might be item summoning like fifth war Archer.
My own ideas on personal affinity for Doug are too silly. Mic Sounders the Thirteenth is the most sensible of them.
vorticity,
I'm assuming a canon Doctor is not going to be stopped by anything in WH40K. However, that was a very OOC Doctor, as far as I can tell. Firstly using the Imperium's definition of enemy, and secondly shooting those enemies dead with a gun.
For the young female concept, I was assuming a bad regeneration that left the Doctor essentially a child. The Tale of Genji is famous for having a guy try to raise a young girl he has custody of to be his ideal wife.
Really, Doctor Who varies enough that range of tastes among fans makes it very difficult to come up with good guesses if they must also pass the tests of IC and WSoD. I think I could've gotten some of the BBC's writers with the idea of the Doctor regenerating into Thatcher, which other people wouldn't bat an eye at. I have some notions of Sledge Hammer! that I can't see going anywhere, but all I have at the moment coming to my hand is my sealed forbidden finishing technique of crossovers that should not be.
1. Warning, actual SAN loss may occur. I have been known to lose part of my ability to use language.
2. I'm really serious about the warning.
3. You must find a copy of Chung and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story
4. Start reading...
P.S. If you aren't familiar with Fate, Zouken Matou, mentioned in 36 of this thread, is involved in, among other things, the torture and rape of minors.
Expanding, magic users in this setting are culturally inclined to be evil (or at least amoral), secretive, and elitist. Whether the magic system actually requires this is unclear. I think there is a case that it is merely an in universe legitimating narrative. Magic users are generally involved in multigenerational efforts to improve the family magics in order to do something to reality that reality actively resists. Letting scruples get in the way of research is frowned upon.
The core conflict of the series involves a serial tournament started as a horror, per our standards, by a small group of mage families. It went off the rails in the third iteration, and got worse afterwords each time.
The first media property covers three alternate timelines of the fifth iteration. This was an H VN. A Let's Play of the non-H version can be found on the internet. The fourth iteration is covered in a LN for which a translation can be found on the internet. Other stories in the same universe include Tsukihime, which involves vampires, Kara no Kyoukai, which has some really horrific magical experimentation, and Angel Notes, which is supposed to be after the Earth has been killed.
As for my question, in both cases I was assuming it was Doug acting as a master, and summoning a servant.
Item summoning works by way of the item's ties to a legendary human hero. The stick would give Bimawen, the handsome monkey king, stone monkey, the great sage equal to heaven, except he probably doesn't count, and would probably be an uncontrollable problem if he did. Unless Doug actively tracks down something, then participates while aware of what is going on, this is probably a question about his inventory.
As for affinity summoning, an indiscriminate serial killer called up Bluebeard, and they did many horrible things together. It is sort of a personality question, or a request for suggestions, with the understanding that history and legend can be very flexible.
As for summoning Doug, I always kind of figured it might be item summoning like fifth war Archer.
My own ideas on personal affinity for Doug are too silly. Mic Sounders the Thirteenth is the most sensible of them.
vorticity,
I'm assuming a canon Doctor is not going to be stopped by anything in WH40K. However, that was a very OOC Doctor, as far as I can tell. Firstly using the Imperium's definition of enemy, and secondly shooting those enemies dead with a gun.
For the young female concept, I was assuming a bad regeneration that left the Doctor essentially a child. The Tale of Genji is famous for having a guy try to raise a young girl he has custody of to be his ideal wife.
Really, Doctor Who varies enough that range of tastes among fans makes it very difficult to come up with good guesses if they must also pass the tests of IC and WSoD. I think I could've gotten some of the BBC's writers with the idea of the Doctor regenerating into Thatcher, which other people wouldn't bat an eye at. I have some notions of Sledge Hammer! that I can't see going anywhere, but all I have at the moment coming to my hand is my sealed forbidden finishing technique of crossovers that should not be.
1. Warning, actual SAN loss may occur. I have been known to lose part of my ability to use language.
2. I'm really serious about the warning.
3. You must find a copy of Chung and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story
4. Start reading...
P.S. If you aren't familiar with Fate, Zouken Matou, mentioned in 36 of this thread, is involved in, among other things, the torture and rape of minors.