(OOC: Time to do or die! I hope you don't mind my visual novel style post, I wanted to emulate how the game does moments like this, so please bear with the unusual style ;) )<br/>Riley staggers forward, the effects of Berserkers attack still ravaging her mind and her body. A memory of last night flashes in her head, of how the man had sacrificed himself to defeat Assassin.  The memory fills her with resolve to accomplish what must be done next.  She arms herself with a rock and stares at it.<br/>"Program....loaded."<br/><em>Magic is the application of a set of instructions to alter a system. One can think of it as a program used to alter the rules by which the world works.</em><br/>As the madness consumes her consciousness, she throws logic at it.<br/>"Properties....analyzed."<br/><em>The Coates family. We are a group of Magus who specialize in alchemy. The alteration of matter, the application and modification of properties.</em><br/>The rock begins to glow in her hands as she focuses her thoughts towards her task.<br/><em>Armed as I am, I can not win. The foes arrayed before me are being driven mad by Berserkers Blade.</em><br/>"Re-writing data."<br/><em>To counter him, I must make an equivalent blade. However, I do not know Projection Magic.</em><br/>The madness seeps into her thoughts, but she resolutely keeps focusing.<br/><em>My amulet, it holds the recipes for every item that can and will exist, including a suitable noble phantasm to counter it. While I can not reproduce an item, I can impart the properties of that item to another. Gentle Hands, the sword of Masamune, a sword that cuts and restores the innocent, with that I can save everyone.</em><br/>She draws upon a power, her power, clumsily accessing the Philosophers Stone's database. The heirloom she had lost all those years ago was the legendary Philosophers Stone, an item that could supposedly turn lead into gold. The stone functions as a library or to be more precise, a cook book. It contains all the information needed to turn anything into something else. She pours one last bit of energy into the rock and with a brilliant flash, she suddenly is holding a beautiful katana.  The madness seeping into her brain retreats, replaced with a calm, cold stillness of one prepared to die.<br/><em>This is the first time I have held a katana in my hands. My chances of survival are zero at best, but if I do nothing...</em><br/>"LANCER! I command you, defend me from yourself and the other servants," she yells, activating her first command seal to force Lancer into being her stalwart defender despite the madness that has claimed his mind.<br/>She raises the blade and charges forth, uttering a battle cry that is equal parts bravery and  despair. She realizes that she is swinging the blade through the boy she swore to protect, and a burst of terror races through her. Would the sword really heal him? Would she strike him down, after having sworn to protect him?  The sword leaves a fatal gash across his torso, and he crumples to the ground. True terror reigns as he lies in a pool of his own blood. "Oh no!"  Her terror subsides however as the wound heals and the boy rises up.<br/><br/>Roll Result: Undercover rolled: 1d20<br/>Comment: Freeing the boy from his madness I hope...<br/>Result: 5,<br/>Total: 5<br/><br/>Roll Result: Saikotsu rolled: 1d20<br/>Comment: does it work?<br/>Result: 1,<br/>Total: 1<br/>(I pm'ed Saiko for the roll result. The rolls were reposted here for convenience sake.)