This makes me want to rate Insightful.
This makes me want to rate Funny.
I'm torn!
Meguca Micro Empire Quest (PMMM)
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I'm torn!
Was running through the named meguca list, and realized a number of the recently named ones aren't on there.
Maki - Trained under the master of the Guiana Highlands (aka: Kit Toyoda, though Kit would tell you said master was Kyouko). A day in the restaurant
Hisa Takei - Head of analysis and logistics Coalition Visitors, Yakuman
Mura - Vet from a nearby rural area. Some Invitations
Tama, Kanon, Yukari - Friends from a nearby suburban area. Kanon is distrustful of others, Yukari has an idol obsession, and Tama loves cats, and often affects a cat-like personality as she tries to keep the others in line. Some Invitations, Who I Want To Be
Yuka - Official and unofficial gossipmonger. Some Invitations
Shioko - (already on list) Helped escort the Coalition girls. Coaltion Training
Miwa - Helped hunt Kyouko's territory as a green. Helped escort the Coalition girls. Coaltion Training
And others not in our group:
Izumi - From area 1. Dislikes feeling obligated. Some Invitations
Ino, Yanae, Aya, Midori - From the Coalition, brought in for training/cooperative relations. Coalition Training
And it would be nice to have a tab on the other groups we know about, and the people we know of within those groups. EG: Hino and various from Nagoya, Yashiro Hiko from Heaven's Chosen, Masaki Sachiko from the Magick Company, etc.
Maki - Trained under the master of the Guiana Highlands (aka: Kit Toyoda, though Kit would tell you said master was Kyouko). A day in the restaurant
Hisa Takei - Head of analysis and logistics Coalition Visitors, Yakuman
Mura - Vet from a nearby rural area. Some Invitations
Tama, Kanon, Yukari - Friends from a nearby suburban area. Kanon is distrustful of others, Yukari has an idol obsession, and Tama loves cats, and often affects a cat-like personality as she tries to keep the others in line. Some Invitations, Who I Want To Be
Yuka - Official and unofficial gossipmonger. Some Invitations
Shioko - (already on list) Helped escort the Coalition girls. Coaltion Training
Miwa - Helped hunt Kyouko's territory as a green. Helped escort the Coalition girls. Coaltion Training
And others not in our group:
Izumi - From area 1. Dislikes feeling obligated. Some Invitations
Ino, Yanae, Aya, Midori - From the Coalition, brought in for training/cooperative relations. Coalition Training
And it would be nice to have a tab on the other groups we know about, and the people we know of within those groups. EG: Hino and various from Nagoya, Yashiro Hiko from Heaven's Chosen, Masaki Sachiko from the Magick Company, etc.
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I intended using the full aura for the lure into an ambush plan.
Possible that healers and/or populations with healers develop some resistance to this mental trauma. Seto seemed to.
Frankly, I consider the lack of an "injured" list to be rather thematic and fairly canonical.
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
But if we don't have some kind of repurcussion for screw-ups that's non-lethal, then our girls are going to die!
We just may have to accept that. I don't like it that much myself, but ambush situations like what happened in the last engagement tend to be rather lethal by nature.But if we don't have some kind of repurcussion for screw-ups that's non-lethal, then our girls are going to die!
Hmm...Well that gives our organization a bit of an advantage.
Well... Taura was always closest to Kaoru, Mami... and Taya.
I'll rate it Insightful so you can rate it Funny.
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!But if we don't have some kind of repurcussion for screw-ups that's non-lethal, then our girls are going to die!
She had rather more serious things on her mind when she lost her leg. At best, she might have thought it a justified loss compared to her failure to protect her group (which is still bothering her a great deal).
Both of these, and Seto's character generally seems to be a slightly skewed mix of Kyoko's Determinator with Mami's Everyone Else's Happiness Matters More Than Mine, so individual injuries to her own person are going to be less important to her than the danger to "her" girls.
That's sort of why her long-term lingering damage is that she panics when exposed to Serena's aura: worrying about others is such a core part of who she is that tearing it out of her would be like losing half her soul. I expect that if Mami didn't have wish-magic resistance to the aura she'd react much the same way. Other girls who receive critical injuries will develop different phobias or disabilities that need to be worked through, at least that's the impression I'm getting.
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Nolrai
weak to fangs
- Location
- Porltand
Yes, that is what happens in fights to the death.But if we don't have some kind of repurcussion for screw-ups that's non-lethal, then our girls are going to die!
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
I meant like, right now.
All added.
Going to rewrite the last attack section today.
Been puzzling over how to make the contact with the Heaven's Chosen hint at the truth without spelling it out. It's really hard. You guys got really close in your earlier speculations of how to convince her, and you'd probably IC try to fish for which of the possibilities was accurate, but I'm not sure how you would fish that out of someone that wouldn't want to reveal any hints of weakness. I like making you guys think, but it's even harder to make the riddles than it is to solve them sometimes.
Been thinking about things that can happen in between no injuries and instant death.
- One thing to keep in mind is that the cubes that it costs to heal someone aren't free. Those have both a time cost and a territory cost, since we can only extract so many cubes from our territory each month. If our stockpile gets really low we'll be forced to use the very meguca-inefficient IRT to extract more cubes from our territory than it can normally support.
- There's a range of phobias and complexes that a severely injured girl can pick up, like claustrophobia that affects where a girl can live, to night terrors that drag down the morale of anyone she lives with, tics, tremors, or strange phobias that cause masquerade issues.
- An even more severe consequence could be a full blown mental disorder like schizophrenia, something that could make a girl useless in most of even ask roles. This might actually be worse than death, because although a meguca will almost certainly recover from such a disorder eventually in the meantime they're a constant drag on resources for an extended period.
- Then there's the simple expedient of having the injured girl immediately grief spiral.
Here's the summary of our previous speculations about the Heaven's Chosen motivations:
Although now that I think about it, she could be playing a higher level game by anticipating that the people around her would make the above assumptions based on her stated position, and then reacting in anticipation of her read of his the other players would react.
I don't think she'd be going higher than an n=1 level, though; I mean, she's still playing against children, for all that they would have been taught the words "depth of recursion" in their elementary school discrete math and combinatorics class.
I don't think she'd be going higher than an n=1 level, though; I mean, she's still playing against children, for all that they would have been taught the words "depth of recursion" in their elementary school discrete math and combinatorics class.
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You know, I redid the scenario with Serena's aura being on from the start: reusing rolls where still a match, and using new rolls where needed, and it comes out fairly similar.
In this case instead of your barriers buckling under the strain, some of your girls just wildly fail their coherent thought rolls and try to fight rather than retreat, and then Mami injures herself trying to protect them, and one of them still dies. But now Mami gets to feel even more responsibility!
Attack on Tokyo 3 (Evangelions sold separately) revision complete.
Now to go back to staring at the page trying to decide how to hint at the diplomacy situation without saying it outright.
Revised casualty 1 vet dead, probably significant grief cube loss from trauma to come.
In this case instead of your barriers buckling under the strain, some of your girls just wildly fail their coherent thought rolls and try to fight rather than retreat, and then Mami injures herself trying to protect them, and one of them still dies. But now Mami gets to feel even more responsibility!
Attack on Tokyo 3 (Evangelions sold separately) revision complete.
Now to go back to staring at the page trying to decide how to hint at the diplomacy situation without saying it outright.
Revised casualty 1 vet dead, probably significant grief cube loss from trauma to come.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
Noooo! My tiny little spit-ball omake has been made retroactively non-canon!
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Well, at least it's only one more for the shrine, instead of 3. And we still have Taya alive!
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if Mami actually spirals from this.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
We'd need more than one death and some trauma for her to spiral. She's in the realm of 'half of the Serenes are dead, maybe a spiral will happen now'.
Last night, rethinking the changes, I was actually dreading this. There's just no good way out of this fight.
Aiko's going to have her work cut out for her.
We knew there was a possibility of this going in. I wonder if this unreliability can be trained out to an extent?
That said, one vet for ten Class 3s. If we were playing XCom we'd be partying in the streets; Nagoya is probably suitably impressed.
Only up until this heightened coordination makes things worse for the Tokyo natives. We need to impress on them not to bunch up and create any sort of threat to the demons for a while; just run.
Powerofmind
In Madness Fallen
- Location
- United States
That does help in a way. Their adaptations are still rigid. They absolutely refuse to hunt or fight without a partner, so solo girls can more easily avoid them and hunt the regular demons. They're no longer as easy to kill, but they paid for it with being much less capable of hunting local girls for food. I imagine the adaptations will be easier to trigger in the future, but these adaptations will also fall out of use in a month or two to allow the to support their food needs once again.