Meguca Micro Empire Quest (PMMM)
- Thread starter inverted_helix
- Start date
Unitveras
"Return to nothingness!"
- Location
- Tatsumiyajima
Not just that.Incubators dropped an asteroid on a major city?
!?
But helix's words made me legitimately shit myself.
They do stuff like THAT, and when it fails they aren't even inconvenienced in the SLIGHTEST!
That says A LOT (IMHO) about the sheer power the Incubators have behind them.
A thought on how to use our extra 10 greens or so:
We know at least 20 greens (from our previous group) are willing to return to Tokyo to fight (the hero types).
So what we could do is in the area of Tokyo that we have detached, act as if our Elites are hunting there again next turn. When the youma attack them, teleport Serena in - and then turn on the anti-teleport artifact (powered by battery). Kill the youma. Do that for as many times as we can successfully do it (at some point they will realize that they ought not respond to the temptation anymore). Once they no longer are reacting (say after two weeks), we send in 20 greens to do a massive hunt in the area. 20 greens for two weeks is 10 greens for the month.
The DS is something like -40 to -30, so we can massively overhunt the area and still be safe, even without our training bonuses.
@Kinematics Thoughts?
We know at least 20 greens (from our previous group) are willing to return to Tokyo to fight (the hero types).
So what we could do is in the area of Tokyo that we have detached, act as if our Elites are hunting there again next turn. When the youma attack them, teleport Serena in - and then turn on the anti-teleport artifact (powered by battery). Kill the youma. Do that for as many times as we can successfully do it (at some point they will realize that they ought not respond to the temptation anymore). Once they no longer are reacting (say after two weeks), we send in 20 greens to do a massive hunt in the area. 20 greens for two weeks is 10 greens for the month.
The DS is something like -40 to -30, so we can massively overhunt the area and still be safe, even without our training bonuses.
@Kinematics Thoughts?
Unitveras
"Return to nothingness!"
- Location
- Tatsumiyajima
I was wondering?
If, in the horrifying scenario that the demons manage to catch on to this strategy and bring out a counter (whatever that may be) that manages to derail that entire plan.
Do you have any say, fallbacks and/or contingencies in case something like that happens?
Teleport charms to evacuate the area...
Of course, the Eyeball would make that a problem, in that case just run, and if it teleports on top of you teleport out in the moment it's anti-teleport field is down.
Also, have Kyubey watch the eyeball and warn us if it moves towards our territory.
Those are the base contingencies. We should also think up additional ones just in case.
I'm not sure of the viability of that. It depends on the youma behavior, and we haven't yet seen them actually vacate an area for any reason.
But first would actually need those numbers to be available. Let me put together the prelim of the plan, to actually look at what's feasible, and what might be desired.
Another 27 girls from Tokyo came upon your forward operations looking for refuge this month. Still no elites, but this group at least had 8 veterans.
8 veterans (1 clairvoyant, 1 healer, 1 translator)
19 greens (4 barrier, 3 healer, 2 stealth, 1 clairvoyant, 1 teleporter)
-- Accept
Support/Upkeep (12 vets, 9.5 greens)
Training upkeep: 10% of 65 vets, 10% of 64 greens = 6.5 vets, 6.5 greens
Bureaucratic upkeep: 5% of 65 vets, 5% of 64 greens = 3.5 vets, 3 greens
Dispatch: 2 vets
Hunting (0.5 Seto, 1 elite, 3 vets, 24.5 greens)
North (Seto teleportation)
0.5 elite, experienced, solo, no armor (-6.0% casualty)
1.5 greens, trained, pair, leather armor (-1% casualty)
1.5 vet, experienced, pack, no armor (-8% casualty)
7.5 green, untrained, pack, full kevlar (-1% casualty)
>> Cubes: 37, capped at 37
>> DS 0.0 to 0.0
South (Seto teleportation)
0.5 elite, experienced, solo, no armor (-6.0% casualty)
1.5 greens, trained, pair, leather armor (-1% casualty)
1.5 vet, experienced, pack, no armor (-8% casualty)
7.5 green, untrained, pack, full kevlar (-1% casualty)
>> Cubes: 37, capped at 37
>> DS 0.0 to 0.0
Rural
1 green, trained, pack, no armor (-7% casualty)
5.5 green, untrained, pack, hard leather (-2% casualty)
>> Cubes: 7.7
>> DS -4.9 to -5.1
Armor used:
15 sets of full kevlar
8 hard leather
3 leather
Cubes:
81.7 - 1 (forecasting) - 1.5 (teleportation) = 79.2
Morale (9 vets, 4 greens, $1000)
Mentors: Devise a mentorship program, where existing members give about 10% of their time to helping welcome and acclimate the refugee recruits, and are given a pair of disciples each (each disciple likewise has two mentors). The goal is to help them acclimate at a more personal level, and gain a better mental grasp of our worldview and group culture (which should also help them in their combat training). The mentors likewise gain a personal closeness to help integrate the new girls into the group.
6 vets, 1 green (7 total to match 10% of new recruits)
Decompression time: Rather than a single day of everyone together (which we can't really do right now, due to numbers), scatter time off for all the girls throughout the month.
2 vets, 2 greens
Good food (1 Chisato, 1 green, $1000): Set Chisato on a rotation of cooking for people throughout the org, letting her cycle through the houses and apartment blocks to cook for people. In particular, see what she can do when not held back to the requirements of serving the public. Home cooking, comfort food, pick-me-ups, healthy food for those training, etc.; show off what she can do with her magic. Assign Akane as her mentor. Give Chisato a green as an assistant. Provide money for extra food supplies.
Training (6 vets, 13 greens)
General Training: Train the new recruits to understand our procedures and tactics.
3 Vets and 13 greens
Month 2 for turn 33 refugees
Artifact powering: Send a couple girls to train with Hiko to learn how to handle powering her artifacts.
3 vets (Keiko and 2 others)
Jobs (15 vets, 11 greens, 1 associate, $100)
Existing jobs: 8 vets, 11 greens, 1 associate
Pet Whisperer (1 Nagisa, $100): Start putting out notices to gain work, while continuing to spend time at animal shelters, pet parks and pet shops to help practice and gain recognition. Print up some fliers and business cards and ask to leave them in various appropriate businesses.
Translator (1 vet): One of the new refugees has translation powers. Set her up with Hainako to expand their ability to handle job requests.
Nagoya Magocracy (5 vets): Nagoya has requested some experienced quants to help handle their development of improved hunting in their territory, paying at $2k/month each.
Restaurant (2 vets): Spend another month trying to find a good location for a new restaurant opening.
Diplomacy (0.5 Mami, 3 vets, 1 green)
Gossipmonger (0.5 Mami, 1 vet, 1 green):
Using the contact info for the girls in Tokyo, and assistance from an extra green for the extra busywork, Mami needs to encourage the Tokyo locals to stand their ground in the city. While the Serenes are making another strike at the youma around the city, we want and need the Tokyo magical girls to do everything they can to hunt up grief cubes, killing the wraiths that are feeding on the human population.
At present, the wraiths are so weak as to be laughable, making it trivial for any magical girl to harvest up a ton of grief cubes. Killing the wraiths will help a great deal in keeping the humans alive, and not falling to the levels of Hong Kong. At the same time, the Serenes will be focusing on taking out the youma, keeping them busy and off the backs of the magical girls in the city. "If you want to save your city, this is where you need to take a stand."
Yuka, meanwhile, will focus on talks with Kofu and Numazu to get them to try to send the girls they're having trouble with towards us.
Magick Company (1 vet): Dealing with Tokyo is turning out to be more expensive than we had anticipated. While it's a relatively short term problem, in order to support the girls that are fleeing Tokyo until we can start moving them back into the city, as well as stabilize matters within Tokyo afterwards, we're going to need a substantial amount of funding. And that's aside from the business ventures we had already planned, such as opening a new restaurant branch.
We need to minimize the distractions and problems going on around us while we work in Tokyo. If we cannot clean up Tokyo in a timely manner, the Incubators have a plan to sterilize the region. (See: Hong Kong) Given the importance of Tokyo to the wealth and well-being of all of Japan, we're sure she doesn't want to allow that to happen.
As such, we'd like to know what sort of financial arrangement she'd be willing to work out with us, either as a loan or a line of credit, or some other arrangement. If she wants to include the restaurant loan into this entire package, $1 million would likely be adequate; or half that if she wants to handle the restaurant loan on its own terms, since we're still searching out an appropriate location for it.
Nagoya (1 vet):
Request a couple interception teams be brought back in.
Things to discuss with Hino:
While we still have a ways to go with clearing the youma, we still need to give thought to how to deal with things afterwards. Our estimations indicate that even after clearing the youma, there's a risk that the extremely low demon strength in the city could turn it into a Hong Kong-like wasteland anyway, and will need a lot of support to hunt it back up to safe levels. The numbers needed for that may be more than the numbers left in the city after the cleanup, although the girls Nagoya has in storage would go a long way to help alleviate that.
Regardless, the city will need supervision and management for a fair time to come, which will be beyond what we can directly supply. While this is not a pressing issue that we need to discuss right away, we'd like to coordinate with them regarding any plans they might have or propose for dealing with the city afterwards. We have some of our own ideas, and Heaven's Chosen is also taking responsibility of a portion of the city.
Tokyo Assault (2.0 elites, 15.0 vets, 3.5 Serena group)
Half-time in Tokyo for 4 elites, 24 vets, 7 in Serena's group
Teams:
Serena + group
Lead:
Mami
Dispatch Team: Taya + clairvoyant
Teleporter Team: 4 vets, in addition to providing teleport support they also create teleport charms for everyone.
Artifact Support Team
Kyouko and Kyo-clone
2 barrier vets
1 teleporter vet
2 stealth vet
Vet Support Team:
6 barrier vets
4 healer vets
10 artillary vets
Taura + Barrier, replacing a healer+artillary, for telepathic-barrier fusion testing/usage.
Typical Artifact Support Team Deployment:
Attack Plans
Telepathic Barrier: On the first run (at least), bring Taura and her barrier partner along to enact a telepathic barrier around the area, in an attempt to block the youma from signalling others of their kind. If effort is completely ineffective, pull them back and replace with standard vets. Otherwise, keep them in play.
Scheduling: ...
Purchases (2 vets, $13,200)
Apartments: 40 space for new refugees.
2 vets, $10,000
Armor: 2 sets of full kevlar from Nagoya ($3200)
Fluff
Mami talks to Serena about plans for housing.
Mami talks to Keiko about polite behavior
Mami gives Serenes a briefing and plan for this month
Plan for our technician guest from Heaven's Chosen.
Meguca Months used:
Serena: 3.5/7
Elites: 4/5
Vets: 65/65
Greens: 63/64
Grief cubes:
Gains: 113.6 (starting) + 79.6 (net harvest) + ??? (class 3 kills+bounties) = 193.2
Costs: 141 (upkeep) + ??? (Tokyo) = 141
Final (before spirals): 52.2
Money:
Income: $53,730 (bank) + $37,500 (income) + $10,000 (NM service) + Loan (??) = $101,230
Expenses: $46,520 (upkeep) + $10,000 (apartments) + $3,200 (armor) + $6,750 (welcome packages) + $100 (advertising) + $1000 (food) = $67,570
Final: $33,660
8 veterans (1 clairvoyant, 1 healer, 1 translator)
19 greens (4 barrier, 3 healer, 2 stealth, 1 clairvoyant, 1 teleporter)
-- Accept
Support/Upkeep (12 vets, 9.5 greens)
Training upkeep: 10% of 65 vets, 10% of 64 greens = 6.5 vets, 6.5 greens
Bureaucratic upkeep: 5% of 65 vets, 5% of 64 greens = 3.5 vets, 3 greens
Dispatch: 2 vets
Hunting (0.5 Seto, 1 elite, 3 vets, 24.5 greens)
North (Seto teleportation)
0.5 elite, experienced, solo, no armor (-6.0% casualty)
1.5 greens, trained, pair, leather armor (-1% casualty)
1.5 vet, experienced, pack, no armor (-8% casualty)
7.5 green, untrained, pack, full kevlar (-1% casualty)
>> Cubes: 37, capped at 37
>> DS 0.0 to 0.0
South (Seto teleportation)
0.5 elite, experienced, solo, no armor (-6.0% casualty)
1.5 greens, trained, pair, leather armor (-1% casualty)
1.5 vet, experienced, pack, no armor (-8% casualty)
7.5 green, untrained, pack, full kevlar (-1% casualty)
>> Cubes: 37, capped at 37
>> DS 0.0 to 0.0
Rural
1 green, trained, pack, no armor (-7% casualty)
5.5 green, untrained, pack, hard leather (-2% casualty)
>> Cubes: 7.7
>> DS -4.9 to -5.1
Armor used:
15 sets of full kevlar
8 hard leather
3 leather
Cubes:
81.7 - 1 (forecasting) - 1.5 (teleportation) = 79.2
Morale (9 vets, 4 greens, $1000)
Mentors: Devise a mentorship program, where existing members give about 10% of their time to helping welcome and acclimate the refugee recruits, and are given a pair of disciples each (each disciple likewise has two mentors). The goal is to help them acclimate at a more personal level, and gain a better mental grasp of our worldview and group culture (which should also help them in their combat training). The mentors likewise gain a personal closeness to help integrate the new girls into the group.
6 vets, 1 green (7 total to match 10% of new recruits)
Decompression time: Rather than a single day of everyone together (which we can't really do right now, due to numbers), scatter time off for all the girls throughout the month.
2 vets, 2 greens
Good food (1 Chisato, 1 green, $1000): Set Chisato on a rotation of cooking for people throughout the org, letting her cycle through the houses and apartment blocks to cook for people. In particular, see what she can do when not held back to the requirements of serving the public. Home cooking, comfort food, pick-me-ups, healthy food for those training, etc.; show off what she can do with her magic. Assign Akane as her mentor. Give Chisato a green as an assistant. Provide money for extra food supplies.
Training (6 vets, 13 greens)
General Training: Train the new recruits to understand our procedures and tactics.
3 Vets and 13 greens
Month 2 for turn 33 refugees
Artifact powering: Send a couple girls to train with Hiko to learn how to handle powering her artifacts.
3 vets (Keiko and 2 others)
Jobs (15 vets, 11 greens, 1 associate, $100)
Existing jobs: 8 vets, 11 greens, 1 associate
Pet Whisperer (1 Nagisa, $100): Start putting out notices to gain work, while continuing to spend time at animal shelters, pet parks and pet shops to help practice and gain recognition. Print up some fliers and business cards and ask to leave them in various appropriate businesses.
Translator (1 vet): One of the new refugees has translation powers. Set her up with Hainako to expand their ability to handle job requests.
Nagoya Magocracy (5 vets): Nagoya has requested some experienced quants to help handle their development of improved hunting in their territory, paying at $2k/month each.
Diplomacy (0.5 Mami, 3 vets, 1 green)
Gossipmonger (0.5 Mami, 1 vet, 1 green):
Using the contact info for the girls in Tokyo, and assistance from an extra green for the extra busywork, Mami needs to encourage the Tokyo locals to stand their ground in the city. While the Serenes are making another strike at the youma around the city, we want and need the Tokyo magical girls to do everything they can to hunt up grief cubes, killing the wraiths that are feeding on the human population.
At present, the wraiths are so weak as to be laughable, making it trivial for any magical girl to harvest up a ton of grief cubes. Killing the wraiths will help a great deal in keeping the humans alive, and not falling to the levels of Hong Kong. At the same time, the Serenes will be focusing on taking out the youma, keeping them busy and off the backs of the magical girls in the city. "If you want to save your city, this is where you need to take a stand."
Yuka, meanwhile, will focus on talks with Kofu and Numazu to get them to try to send the girls they're having trouble with towards us.
Magick Company (1 vet): Dealing with Tokyo is turning out to be more expensive than we had anticipated. While it's a relatively short term problem, in order to support the girls that are fleeing Tokyo until we can start moving them back into the city, as well as stabilize matters within Tokyo afterwards, we're going to need a substantial amount of funding. And that's aside from the business ventures we had already planned, such as opening a new restaurant branch.
We need to minimize the distractions and problems going on around us while we work in Tokyo. If we cannot clean up Tokyo in a timely manner, the Incubators have a plan to sterilize the region. (See: Hong Kong) Given the importance of Tokyo to the wealth and well-being of all of Japan, we're sure she doesn't want to allow that to happen.
As such, we'd like to know what sort of financial arrangement she'd be willing to work out with us, either as a loan or a line of credit, or some other arrangement. If she wants to include the restaurant loan into this entire package, $1 million would likely be adequate; or half that if she wants to handle the restaurant loan on its own terms, since we're still searching out an appropriate location for it.
Nagoya (1 vet):
Request a couple interception teams be brought back in.
Things to discuss with Hino:
While we still have a ways to go with clearing the youma, we still need to give thought to how to deal with things afterwards. Our estimations indicate that even after clearing the youma, there's a risk that the extremely low demon strength in the city could turn it into a Hong Kong-like wasteland anyway, and will need a lot of support to hunt it back up to safe levels. The numbers needed for that may be more than the numbers left in the city after the cleanup, although the girls Nagoya has in storage would go a long way to help alleviate that.
Regardless, the city will need supervision and management for a fair time to come, which will be beyond what we can directly supply. While this is not a pressing issue that we need to discuss right away, we'd like to coordinate with them regarding any plans they might have or propose for dealing with the city afterwards. We have some of our own ideas, and Heaven's Chosen is also taking responsibility of a portion of the city.
Tokyo Assault (2.0 elites, 15.0 vets, 3.5 Serena group)
Half-time in Tokyo for 4 elites, 24 vets, 7 in Serena's group
Teams:
Serena + group
Lead:
Mami
Dispatch Team: Taya + clairvoyant
Teleporter Team: 4 vets, in addition to providing teleport support they also create teleport charms for everyone.
Artifact Support Team
Kyouko and Kyo-clone
2 barrier vets
1 teleporter vet
2 stealth vet
Vet Support Team:
6 barrier vets
4 healer vets
10 artillary vets
Taura + Barrier, replacing a healer+artillary, for telepathic-barrier fusion testing/usage.
Typical Artifact Support Team Deployment:
Artifact and Battery is deployed in the planned ambush zone while under tandem stealth of Kyouko and Kyo-clone, with the two stealth vet tandem casting beneath. After the interdiction field is activated, Kyouko and Kyo-clone join the combat, while the stealth vets continue to use tandem stealth to conceal the artifact and battery, and the two barrier girls put up a tandem barrier to protect the artifact and battery from stray attacks. The teleporter stands by the artifact, ready to teleport away with the artifact if it is decided to be necessary.
Generally, when the battle is won, Kyo-clone and Kyouko will return and reactivate tandem stealth, under which the artifact and battery will be returned to our forward base.
If there is a decision to retreat the artifact and battery will remain concealed until the youma leave, then return as normal. This will probably only happen if the youma showed up in larger numbers than expected and the interdiction field was never activated.
If the concealment is pierced, then the teleporter is to retreat with the artifact, and the rest of the team is to teleport charm escape, abandoning the battery. Later the battery will be recovered if possible after the youma leave.
Generally, when the battle is won, Kyo-clone and Kyouko will return and reactivate tandem stealth, under which the artifact and battery will be returned to our forward base.
If there is a decision to retreat the artifact and battery will remain concealed until the youma leave, then return as normal. This will probably only happen if the youma showed up in larger numbers than expected and the interdiction field was never activated.
If the concealment is pierced, then the teleporter is to retreat with the artifact, and the rest of the team is to teleport charm escape, abandoning the battery. Later the battery will be recovered if possible after the youma leave.
Attack Plans
As last month, send a group of girls (2-5) to begin hunting openly, after positioning the interdiction artifact with battery nearby to enclose them in its interdiction field. When the youma teleport in to attack the pair of hunters, teleport Serena (transformed) with her group and the entire vet support team into the combat and then turn the interdiction artifact on.
Kill the youma pair, and then withdraw.
Contingency:
If more than a pair of youma attack, hunters retreat immediately using teleport charms. If discovered, the artifact team retreats as well, abandoning the battery.
Kill the youma pair, and then withdraw.
Contingency:
If more than a pair of youma attack, hunters retreat immediately using teleport charms. If discovered, the artifact team retreats as well, abandoning the battery.
Telepathic Barrier: On the first run (at least), bring Taura and her barrier partner along to enact a telepathic barrier around the area, in an attempt to block the youma from signalling others of their kind. If effort is completely ineffective, pull them back and replace with standard vets. Otherwise, keep them in play.
Scheduling: ...
Purchases (2 vets, $13,200)
Apartments: 40 space for new refugees.
2 vets, $10,000
Armor: 2 sets of full kevlar from Nagoya ($3200)
Fluff
Mami talks to Serena about plans for housing.
Mami talks to Keiko about polite behavior
Mami gives Serenes a briefing and plan for this month
Plan for our technician guest from Heaven's Chosen.
Meguca Months used:
Serena: 3.5/7
Elites: 4/5
Vets: 65/65
Greens: 63/64
Grief cubes:
Gains: 113.6 (starting) + 79.6 (net harvest) + ??? (class 3 kills+bounties) = 193.2
Costs: 141 (upkeep) + ??? (Tokyo) = 141
Final (before spirals): 52.2
Money:
Income: $53,730 (bank) + $37,500 (income) + $10,000 (NM service) + Loan (??) = $101,230
Expenses: $46,520 (upkeep) + $10,000 (apartments) + $3,200 (armor) + $6,750 (welcome packages) + $100 (advertising) + $1000 (food) = $67,570
Final: $33,660
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Added a bit more. Had to put a couple girls on apartment hunting, and made that a vet+green pair. Added a green as an assistant to the gossipmonger, because that's going to be time-intensive. Shifted the rural hunting to be all greens.
Only have 2 people training to power the artifact, as basically we just need 1 + backup. Have 5 people sent to Nagoya for quant service.
So, currently left with 1 elite, 4.5 greens, and half of Serena's group's time.
Resources at the end are strained. Definitely need that loan from Sachiko, and definitely need a lot of cubes from the Tokyo hunt.
Only have 2 people training to power the artifact, as basically we just need 1 + backup. Have 5 people sent to Nagoya for quant service.
So, currently left with 1 elite, 4.5 greens, and half of Serena's group's time.
Resources at the end are strained. Definitely need that loan from Sachiko, and definitely need a lot of cubes from the Tokyo hunt.
[x] Kinematics
Pondering even switching Mami to helping the Gossipmonger, as her persuasion is more needed there. Making the case for the loan should be pretty simple.
May possibly want to send another girl for training with Hiko. Could be a better chance that at least one of them manages to get a handle on things in the first month, rather than taking two.
Can pull a couple quants out of the Nagoya service, since they'd like a minimum of 3. As long as we get the money from Sachiko, we can make do without that, if we need to put the vets elsewhere.
Went with the explicit push of getting the magic cook to see what she could do with her magic. As much as it's useful in a restaurant, if she can do things like buff people with her food, or help improve moods/mental stability/etc, that would be far more valuable.
No spare girls for fusion/etc training.
Anyway, the youma are trying to herd girls inward, towards central Tokyo. That means they're prepping to collapse the cordon zone once they have enough girls in a tighter confined area where their numbers can suffice to still act as a boundary.
They are likely to collapse the cordon more quickly if we keep clearing the western wall. If we clear the northwestern tip (not quite the area I was imagining before, but the spike up near Gunma), that may not trigger the collapse quite as quickly, since they'll still have a generally diverse boundary.
@inverted_helix: Do the youma patrol out towards Takasaki/Maebashi (northwestern urbanish areas of Tokyo zone)? Or is the cordon more circularish?
May possibly want to send another girl for training with Hiko. Could be a better chance that at least one of them manages to get a handle on things in the first month, rather than taking two.
Can pull a couple quants out of the Nagoya service, since they'd like a minimum of 3. As long as we get the money from Sachiko, we can make do without that, if we need to put the vets elsewhere.
Went with the explicit push of getting the magic cook to see what she could do with her magic. As much as it's useful in a restaurant, if she can do things like buff people with her food, or help improve moods/mental stability/etc, that would be far more valuable.
No spare girls for fusion/etc training.
Anyway, the youma are trying to herd girls inward, towards central Tokyo. That means they're prepping to collapse the cordon zone once they have enough girls in a tighter confined area where their numbers can suffice to still act as a boundary.
They are likely to collapse the cordon more quickly if we keep clearing the western wall. If we clear the northwestern tip (not quite the area I was imagining before, but the spike up near Gunma), that may not trigger the collapse quite as quickly, since they'll still have a generally diverse boundary.
@inverted_helix: Do the youma patrol out towards Takasaki/Maebashi (northwestern urbanish areas of Tokyo zone)? Or is the cordon more circularish?
Very quick feedback since I'm busy at work. Will respond more tonight.
I think we want to send more than 2 to get trained.
I feel we have other needs that take priority over these actions. This in my mind is the most objectionable thing about your plan, you are prioritizing exploring a possible bonus (magic chef = morale buff?) over actual immediate needs.
Yes it's useful, and a good idea to check out, but it's not urgent.
Needs an advertising budget.
Again, I think we should consider delaying this. We don't really have room to spend resources on non-urgent actions.
I really don't like how you phrase this. It's far too cold and logical. This needs a significant rewrite.
This is a rough draft of ideas, it is not a proposal yet. We should figure out what we want to ask for and then propose it. Also I think 1 million may not be enough.
We should not be saying this yet, the artifact is not mobile enough for us to respond quickly to a request for aid.
Can't do this. Apartment hunting requires vets only. (Greens can't make themselves appear older with illusions).
I think we want to send more than 2 to get trained.
I feel we have other needs that take priority over these actions. This in my mind is the most objectionable thing about your plan, you are prioritizing exploring a possible bonus (magic chef = morale buff?) over actual immediate needs.
Yes it's useful, and a good idea to check out, but it's not urgent.
Needs an advertising budget.
Again, I think we should consider delaying this. We don't really have room to spend resources on non-urgent actions.
I really don't like how you phrase this. It's far too cold and logical. This needs a significant rewrite.
This is a rough draft of ideas, it is not a proposal yet. We should figure out what we want to ask for and then propose it. Also I think 1 million may not be enough.
We should not be saying this yet, the artifact is not mobile enough for us to respond quickly to a request for aid.
Can't do this. Apartment hunting requires vets only. (Greens can't make themselves appear older with illusions).
Exactly what are you basing this assumption on?
I don't recall anything about the youma doing any herding, nor anything about a tighter cordon zone.
You apparently are assuming that they are going to tighten a cordon around the downtown or something? I would think that cutting off Gunma would be a lot more likely to result in an acceptance of a smaller cordon, since that cordon would still be bigger than if we try to push them to only holding the downtown.
I didn't read that as a new thing or a change in their behavior, but as a reference to what has always been the youma tactic.
You mentioned the high encounter rate at the edge, and helix pointed out that there has always been a lower encounter rate in the interior lines because the youma are herding the girls there.
It's not a new thing.
@inverted_helix Can you confirm?
You mentioned the high encounter rate at the edge, and helix pointed out that there has always been a lower encounter rate in the interior lines because the youma are herding the girls there.
It's not a new thing.
@inverted_helix Can you confirm?
Possibly. However only 1 is actually needed for handling the artifact, so any beyond that are for backups and maybe a chance for one of them to learn faster (if it's a roll per vet being trained). I could maybe see sending three, but that will depend on where else we can free up vets.
I disagree. I think things like this are critical in maintaining our situation and morale, and the possibility of buffs would be a huge benefit in running up to the final clearing period. Refusal to push the boundaries leaves us with fewer ways to counter the adaptations of the youma.
How much to print some fliers? $50? $100? I'll make it $100, and it can include some of those little business cards people leave in restaurants and such. A quick online check can get some fancy ones custom made at $35 for 1000 cards.
I could see delaying the restaurant expansion. That would free up a couple vets. As long as we can get the money from Sachiko, we can ride on that while dealing with Tokyo, since we need the vets available for fighting.
Hmm. True, that's fine. Let them damage and chase away any youma, then. Youmas fleeing, though, is probably low probability, still.
@inverted_helix - Can you confirm? 1 vet + 1 green not viable?
The only problem I'm seeing is that only Mami is both trainable and capable of functioning while inside Serena's aura, so she should probably be trained as well. We definitely need her trained for when we go after the Beholder.
This is correct, it's always been that way to keep them herded away from escape.
Yes not viable, requires vets.
OK.
Cancelled the restaurant location hunting to free up 2 vets, and put one on the apartment hunting. The other is fiddling around in Diplomacy.
5.5 greens unassigned at the moment.
Problem is, Mami needs to be part of the Tokyo hunt, which eats up half of her time, and I think really needs to lend her persuasiveness to keeping the Tokyo locals inside Tokyo. There's just no time to send her off for artifact training.
I also don't think having Mami on duty to maintain the artifact is a good use of her time. Yes, she's the one that's immune to the aura, but that means she should be leading and directing people, and using her combat strength in the fight, not sitting in the back.
Aranfan
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It almost certainly isn't. However, she is the only one who can do the task, and the task needs to be done.
Which means we're kinda stuck. It has to be her, and if it isn't her then the anti-teleportation box gets a lot less effective.
How do you figure that? Why is she the only one who can do the task?
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
She is the only one that can do the task because she is the only one other than Serena who doesn't get drunk in Serena's Full Blast Aura. Even her retinue is impaired. Serena can't be trained due to the time constraints imposed by proximity to her, so Mami is the only one that can do anything that requires any kind of complicated finangling in the aura. Which tending to the anti-teleport box almost certainly is.
Because it's probably not a good idea to operate magical machinery while under the influence of Serena's aura, and especially against the Beholder we're going to have that aura on at full blast.
I'm also considering if we should recruit a few of Nagoya's elites to come along for the beholder attack, but we'll talk about that later. I don't Serena+Co plus Mami and Kyoclone is going to be enough for that fight.
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Though one thing I hope is that the Beholder hasn't attempted to say, actually try making an industrial base.
I mean with something like that, could it actually be able to succeed?