Entry 10: Moon Holy Grail War
Different from the Holy Grail War fought in Fuyuki the Moon Holy Grail War held in the Moon Cell starts with 999 participants that are paired down to 128 Masters who do battle in a tournament format. All participants have their souls digitalized to enter the Moon Cell but whether they do so voluntarily or not is a mystery, and in the case of disqualification or loss, their lives are forfeit due to the deletion of the data comprising their souls. The Moon Cell utilizes the Fuyuki ritual as a basis to collect data as the best samples could be obtained from wars of survival. In fact, the conflict originally ended with the participants killing each other and then fleeing, leaving a mountain of corpses behind. This changed when the NPC known as Twice H. Pieceman won the war but was unable to use the wish granting aspect of the Moon Cell due to his nature as an NPC. Instead he manipulated the rules of the Moon Cell in order to form a structured Holy Grail War, a battle of survival in which only one could emerge victorious.
Once the number of participants is reached their memories are suppressed and are put into the roles of students in a simulated school and given artificial memories, going through the same subjects, lessons, and content every day. Those who begin to regain their memories are allowed to enter the next stage of the preliminaries and are given an Effigy in order to test their abilities as a Master against another Effigy. If successful, those who pass will enter the tournament proper and summon their Servant, those who failed in either stage of the preliminaries will be disqualified, resulting in death.
Once 128 participants are selected and summoned their Servants, they are put in a Reality Marble of a school similar to that of the preliminaries where the participants stay for the next 7 weeks. All Masters can make use of the different facilities within the school but are prohibited from battling each other until the appointed time, although talented hackers have been able to fool the system in order to kill Masters before their matches. At the start of each round the Masters are randomly chosen to face against each other and are given a period of one week to prepare for battle. During said period the Masters can investigate their opponents or enter the Arena, an area dedicated to help Masters train and gain experience against enemy programs. Should the programs overwhelm the Master and their Servant they will be disqualified, more so its imperative that the Master successfully obtains two Triggers generated by the Arena, failure to do so at the day of the match results in the Master being disqualified. To the victor of the tournament access is granted into the core of the Moon Cell, the Holy grail of the Seven Heavens, to harness its power and grant their wishes.
AN: I'm alive! Sorry for taking this long to update but things just kept me busy. Anyway, for those of you who may not know in the Fate/EXTRA timeline the world's magic dried up and by the 2030's mages basically could enter the Moon Cell, this world's equivalence of the Matrix, in order to get their wish granted. Unlike the Fuyuki Holy Grail War, the Moon Holy Grail War doesn't have "restrictions" in terms of what servant you can summon, said summoning is done with compatibility, so no catalyst is used. Which means that technically a Master could summon a divine being like Twice did with Buddha, although certain Servants like Gilgamesh are lock away in the Far Side due to being "too powerful". With that I hope you guys enjoyed this entry and I'll leave you guys with this question: If you were participating in the Holy Grail War what Servant would be most compatible with you?