Meguca Micro Empire Quest (PMMM)
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Aranfan
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I will support this.
The 95% confidence interval on 1000 d100s is about +/-1565, so between 48,935 and 52,065. Two of the samples fall below that confidence interval (which is about 6x higher than expected), and none go above the confidence interval (which is mostly expected). The average of 50,093 is 0.8% below the 'true' average, or about half a standard deviation of the provided samples.
The sum of all 14,000 rolls is 701,306, where the true average should be 707,000. Confidence interval would be 0.85%, or +/-5,975. That gives a lower bound of 701,025, which the observed sum is just barely inside of.
I would say that the values are suspicious, but not outside of statistical probability given the number of samples.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Well, I meant the new large groups that started springing up when the timeline protection ended. Not the smaller groups.
I do appreciate the level of detail you provide, and the occasional clue bat. It's easy to get caught up in focusing on one thing or another and forget other stuff entirely, or think that there's no point in even trying to pursue some line of inquiry because the players and GM have somewhat different views of the world.
I assumed that that related only to actually seeing the target, as it was described as an electromagnetic field distortion. The grass would be more 'feeling' the target, an entirely separate sense.
Eeeep. Rough battle.
And yes, 50/50 split on the 14 cubes.
Dang that was intense. I could totally feel that the vets are probably terrified of that thing and glad they were not required to stay.
Also... I know it's rather cold blooded, but if Seto had died we probably would have absorbed her group...
On the other hand, an epic teleporter will be a huge gain if we get her to join our group. Plus the demon might have gain teleportation and that would be horrible.
I think we should split the net. 4.9 cubes each.
We don't have to go over board here, I mean, Seto's group already has a month and a half stockpile, we have less then a month.
Sure this month's harvest should put us over the top, but an extra 4.9 cubes probably means we can do fun with magic and more expensive research.
Heh... just thought that Kyouko ought to pick up on the names and tell Seto that she has to call Mami "Onee-chan" from now on.
That reminds me, I never did right that omake about the Serenes starting to call Kyouko Oba-san.
That reminds me, I never did right that omake about the Serenes starting to call Kyouko Oba-san.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
While we did do most of the work, they took the most casualties. I think a 7/7 split is most equitable.
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Also, is it Seto's group that stuck the "don't come back" sign to the backs of one of our scouts? Cause if so I am betting they are regretting that. If only in a "they are actually pretty nice girls, and didn't deserve that" sort of way.
So, entirely new set of things to work on! Including the items I brought up before...
1) Advanced combat training (Kyouko instruction)
2) Optimized team construction for specific opponents
3) Tandem casting research, in anticipation of:
4) Tandem casting training for all meguca (ie: every girl can manage at least rudimentary tandem casting with every other girl)
5) Specialized tandem casting training for certain meguca who'd particularly benefit from it (clairvoyants, barriers, ??)
6) Advanced demon detection (specifically, develop devices that can detect miasma), to set up a warning barrier along our borders
7) Expanded information gathering. Means uncertain due to limits on our mobility (not being allowed free passage through nearby territories), but we do need to be able to get more info on what's going on in the wider world.
If we claim the operation costs (0.3 healing, 2.4 for vets), that's 11.3 remaining. Can split that (and go ahead and round towards us) for 5.7 for us and 5.6 for her. After that deduct the 1.5 paid to Kyuubey to find the net cube gain for each group (4.2 for us, 4.1 for Seto).
1) Advanced combat training (Kyouko instruction)
2) Optimized team construction for specific opponents
3) Tandem casting research, in anticipation of:
4) Tandem casting training for all meguca (ie: every girl can manage at least rudimentary tandem casting with every other girl)
5) Specialized tandem casting training for certain meguca who'd particularly benefit from it (clairvoyants, barriers, ??)
6) Advanced demon detection (specifically, develop devices that can detect miasma), to set up a warning barrier along our borders
7) Expanded information gathering. Means uncertain due to limits on our mobility (not being allowed free passage through nearby territories), but we do need to be able to get more info on what's going on in the wider world.
Remember that the net includes discounting the 1.5 cubes we paid Kyuubey, but not the 1.5 cubes that Seto paid, which unbalances the split.
If we claim the operation costs (0.3 healing, 2.4 for vets), that's 11.3 remaining. Can split that (and go ahead and round towards us) for 5.7 for us and 5.6 for her. After that deduct the 1.5 paid to Kyuubey to find the net cube gain for each group (4.2 for us, 4.1 for Seto).
I think that quote mentioned an area to the southwest, whereas Seto's group is to the northeast, so it shouldn't be them.
I had missed that bit in my earlier diggings, and thought we hadn't touched area 1. It may make opening communications there a bit awkward.
This is surprisingly cold based off past player sentiment.
Didn't see this before. Essentially picture a bubble around the demon where it's bending the light. Particulate like flour bombs wouldn't be effective because the flour would enter the bubble and light would still be bent around it. The ribbons are large enough that they stick out of the bubble.
This is correct as well, though wouldn't have helped too much.
Didn't see this before either. They all failed, though one of them only failed by 1 point (and they only got one try each since they teleported out after). In this case the checks were DC40 for Taya, and DC75 for vets. Taya was just a failure.
Thanks. I've thought of making some types of wish magic as you suggested, but as I said at the time, you can assume that all of your girls have some means of attack, and as Haman said the sort of wish that leads to pure combat potential isn't going to be particularly common.
I'm glad I was able to get that across. Part of it is that supernatural fear aura that Mami was able to completely shrug off (even beyond the 95% elite status). From her perspective people just faltering doesn't seem quite right, she was basically like "This isn't me, it's the demon" and able to completely ignore it, but Vets can't.
Honestly with Taya's failure to penetrate its stealth due to her outright hilariously bad rolls, if the demon had gained teleportation you might have lost completely. Mami's ribbons wouldn't have been able to hold it if it could teleport, and invisible teleporting demon would just have been ridiculous.
I mean if Taya had ever broken its stealth Kyouko and Mami could have handled it even with teleporting, probably. But with its stealth intact the whole time, if it had gained Seto's teleportation powers you'd have been screwed. Though I should be clear that these high class demons can gain powers from defeated meguca, but it's a roll, not guaranteed.
Hah. Yeah I use a random name generator and pick the most amusing of the list generally. When Seto Tomoe came up that was a winner. Though that was less obviously fate than when Sayaka, Yuma, and Hitomi all came up in the first list generation when I started the quest.
That was area 1, to the southwest of your main territory. Seto is from area 9, to the northeast.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
The most likely sorts of wishes that leads to pure combat potential would probably be a wish to excel at some sort of martial sport, in my estimation.
I still say it could easily have been a different Hitomi. In canon she had no potential, and we have had doubled up names Keiko.
While true, I just mean it was amusing that in my original 20 random name list, I had 3 canon names from PMMM, whether those names originally had potential or not. Your point is fair enough, but not quite what I was referring to.
Probably, but in my current way of laying out the system that would be more along the lines of guaranteeing your meguca weapon and making you better at it, not as likely to give you elemental manipulation or suchlike.
You can probably reasonably assume you have some of that sort in your group already.
Part of the reason the list of wish magic types purposefully isn't covering your whole group in order that if more come up later they can more easily be slotted in.
The Turn 26 update is mostly done incidentally, I'll probably get it up by tomorrow.
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Wow. Between Taya and the three vets, a 97.3% chance of success. And we still failed.
As for Taya... Maybe in attempting to open her senses to find the demon, it had her getting hit hard by the fear aura that Mami was just shrugging off? While she's an elite, she only just made the grade a couple months ago, and doesn't have the raw experience of the rest. Nervousness of being put on the spot in her first major battle where people are depending on her. Ironically a reflection of my Kaoru omake.
Sure, I'm fine with that.
Wow this is an awesome explanation for how you major fail clairvoyance repeatedly. Wish I had thought of that when I was wondering how that would work. Consider that the explanation.
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Ah, I can be a rather cold person. I tend to base my decision making in quests off of the MC's IC characterization. This was just me OOC pointing out a potential added benefit to the most likely action IC Mami would take. It's something she wouldn't consider since she simply doesn't think in those terms, but the benefits still exist.
As for why I prefer the Gross instead of the Net, is because it is slightly unfair in Seto's favor. This allows two things to occur. For the price of 1.4 cubes, we make it clear we value Seto and her group. It changes the narrative from us using Seto as added manpower/local guides in a pre-emptive strike and/or hunt for cubes, to being cooperative partners in taking down a demon. I'm not saying that we wont get a relationship boost, but the difference here should be substantial. I don't think 1.4 additional cubes is worth it. Also, don't forget about envy. From their perspective, they lost so much fighting this demon, we just waltz in and kill it. Easy as pie. No casualties even. And then we take the "lion's share" of the spoils. It's easy to feel resentful in that situation, and with so many other negative emotions, we'd be easy target of their displaced grief and rage I expect them to be going through in the next month or two.
Also, even with their stockpile, don't forget about spirals. Their morale has to be close to rock bottom at this point with the casualties they took. I wouldn't be surprised if they went through their entire stockpile trying to fight grief-spirals, which means that 1.4 cubes might be the difference between life and death.
The second thing that splitting via Gross as opposed to Net is how it'll influence our girl's perception of themselves. 1.4 cubes is largely a token amount to us, it's mostly symbolic. However, symbols can be very powerful. Here we can play up how proud we are of all our girls for banding together to take down a dangerous demon and help others. It lets us be proper Heroes (well, heroines, but I'm not fond of that word...). If there are any lasting negative morale effects on our vets from the terrifying combat they had to endure, I'm hoping that this will mitigate it. We got to be the big damn heroes today, let's not mar it by penny pinching.
To be honest I thought splitting the Gross is a bit condescending. It's all a crap shoot as to how people respond to you anyways. Sometimes people respond to generosity with gratitude, other times with hatred and envy.
Actually, when you consider that she didn't want to split the operation costs, it means that we can't deduct the operation costs from the reward, as that's effectively splitting the costs between us, which is what we agreed not to do.
So yeah, 7/7 split of the gross is fine. Net becomes 5.5 each after deducting what we already paid to Kyuubey, and then we eat the operation costs, leaving us with a net 2.7.
So yeah, 7/7 split of the gross is fine. Net becomes 5.5 each after deducting what we already paid to Kyuubey, and then we eat the operation costs, leaving us with a net 2.7.
Sinsystems
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So after this I think it's a good idea that next turn we set up the "Write a will or Final Goodbye letter to everyone to be opened/read in the event of your death" policy.
You guys really need to drop a pile of Omakes on Kaoru. Getting her to Elite is critical, because her song should be strengthened enough to lolnope a Class Threes grief aura for veterans (it halfed it when she was only a veteran), allowing you guys to deploy massive amounts of tandem-casting Veterans to Demon Battles alongside the Elites. 6 Barrier Girls Tandem-Casting should allow for one hell of a bunker, within which you can deploy Clairvoyants tandem-casting to find the Demons, Healers to top of wounded Elites and a safe base for Teleporters. Would make things massively easier for the Elites.
Also, you need more Kevlar Clothing.
Also, you need more Kevlar Clothing.
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That's not going to be quick in acquisition. The last time we mass purchased Kevlar we ended up being assessed a 30+ cube penalty we'll be paying off over the next few months.
I know, but having enough of it for everyone in combination with Elite Kaoru and Tandem-Casting means you can just drop a 30+ Blob of Veterans plus 6 Elites on every Level Three that shows up and alpha strike it to death. Massive overkill is the only tactic that guarantees minimal casualties against them, and 6 Elites just aren't enough if it has a particularily nasty combo of abilities. Full Kevlar plus Teleporters should allow the Vets to survive and retreat even if it brings down the barrier.
Plus people were complaining about having far too much money once the restaurant starts bringing in the dosh, so there you have a way of getting rid of it. There have been ways suggested to buy it covertly.