Unrelated question: What would be the cost of establishing a college fund? Say we wanted to send a few of our girls to college to study some specific areas of study that we could use? (Business, Medicine, Combat tactics, Engineering and Experimental science? Maybe a Materials Engineering degree?)
Working Plan:
Note: Upkeep needs to be updated to include the .5 Greens for the first two items. Stipend needs to be increased by $400.
[X] Upkeep:
-[X] 11 Vets, 7 Greens, 1 Associate
-[X] -$11,540
-[X] Mami decides to move 1/3 of the grief cube stock pile to the house in Mitikihara. She puts Aiko in local control of it (as she has shown initiative and a calm head when dealing with grief spirals.) Mami also decides to put 1/6 of the stockpile in the new Itawa apartment, under local control of Kaoru.
Kuybey Actions:
[X] Let Kuybey go ahead and wipe Kaori's mother's memory of Kaori's kidnapping.
[X] Ask Kuybey for advice on how to conceal magical healing from people. He must have had girls deal with this issue before. What worked best and what worked poorly? If he suggests not healing people at all, point out that sick family members means more grief spirals, which means lower productivity for grief cube harvesting from magical girls.
[X] Ask Kuybey about the future for older magical girls. How do magical girls age? What about marriage and children? What pitfalls should we plan for handling? It's not a pressing concern right now, but we need to find a way to safely handle non-magical girl relatives. Discuss possible ideas for maintaining the masquerade with husbands in the picture. A shadow "job" at a company owned by us? That would give us 40 hours a week for girls to work at hunting and other magical girl stuff. Is that enough? (Should be based on our numbers, as that's about what we have right now - each girl hunting can support roughly 2 additional girls not hunting).
Hunting Plans:
Total Harvest: 3 +47 +4 +1 -2(Kyouko's fee) = 53 grief cubes.
Total Manpower: 0.5 Mami, 14 Veterans, 2 Greens
[X] Dispersed Hunting: Magical Girl will individually hunt demons throughout your territory and gather the grief cubes for the central supply. This can be dangerous.
Cost: 0.5 Mami, expected harvest = 3, 0% chance of injury
[X] Hunting Pairs: Magical Girls will hunt in pairs reducing the danger, but because they are not covering as much area their efficiency is reduced. Death is less likely.
Cost: 13.5 Veterans, cap harvest at 47, 0% chance of injury
[X] Hunting Pairs (Kyouko's territory): Magical Girls will hunt in pairs reducing the danger, but because they are not covering as much area their efficiency is reduced. Death is less likely.
Cost: 2 Greens, expected harvest =5, capped at 4, 0% chance of injury
-[X] Keep on with the two greens who did it last month.
[X] Hunting Pairs: Magical Girls will hunt in pairs reducing the danger, but because they are not covering as much area their efficiency is reduced. Death is less likely.
Cost: 0.5 Vets, cap harvest at 1, 0% chance of injury
-[X] Rural: Base modified to 1.2, dispatch bonus does not apply.
Diplomacy, Scouting, and Expansion:
Manpower: 0.5 Mami, 6 Vets, 1 Green
Money: -$2,000 -$300?? = -$2,300??
[X] Talk to Kyouko, she'll come around eventually surely.
Cost: .5 Mami; Reward: Variable; Chance of Success: ???
-[X] This month offer to just hang out with Kyouko doing whatever she would like to do. After all, you have half a months worth of free time, and Kyouko must have half a month of free time too since half her territory is being farmed by our group this month.
-[X] If she wants to play at the arcade, play at the arcade. If she wants to Mami to cook for her, we cook for her. If she wants to go to the movies we go to the movies. If Kyouko asks us to join her on a hunt, like old times, we gladly go along. Occasionally say "It's nice to take a break like this every once in a while." Subtle. That's our motto this month.
-[X] At the end of the month, just smile and gently ask Kyouko if she's ready to join us yet. She's always welcome.
-[X] If she still won't accept, ask if she'd like to double the harvesting we are doing in her territory. We'll harvest 8 grief cubes, and give her 4. Make sure to mention that we don't actually need this, as we are stable now, it's just an option if Kyouko would like to enjoy a month off from hunting entirely. (Maybe if she doesn't have to hunt at all she'll eventually get bored and decide to join us just to have something to do).
[X] Improve Housing: Another Apartment (in Iwata): You could get some more apartments and reduce the crowding or provide closer locations for hunting in distant areas.
Cost: $2,000 and 1 Veteran Meguca; Reward More housing capacity (Limit increased by 6), ongoing cost +1000$ per month or you get kicked out. Payable at the beginning of the month.
-[X] Send Kaoru, and have Kaoru begin the process to transfer down to Itawa. We insist on her graduating high school, but we'd rest easier knowing that another veteran is down there to keep an eye on things.
[X] Scout Area 12: You can deploy a veteran to scout out one of the territories around you stealthily. They should be able to gauge the demon strength there and the magical girls status there without tipping them off, hopefully.
Cost: 2 Veteran; Chance of success: 70%; Reward: information on demon strength, support capacity of the territory, and status of current magical girls in the territory, bonus to diplomatic efforts.
[X] Scout Area 11: You can deploy a veteran to scout out one of the territories around you stealthily. They should be able to gauge the demon strength there and the magical girls status there without tipping them off, hopefully.
Cost: 2 Veteran; Chance of success: 70%; Reward: information on demon strength, support capacity of the territory, and status of current magical girls in the territory, bonus to diplomatic efforts.
[X] Expand territory 1, by diplomacy: If you can convince them to join your group you may be able to safely incorporate others' territories.
Cost: 1 Green, 1 Veteran; Reward: Meguca from territory recruited, new territory; Chance of Success: 30% (Mami bonus applicable)
-[X] Addon, Bribery:
Cost: $150 per girl in the territory; Reward: +1d10% success chance
Research and Money:
Money= -$1,200
[X] Purchase Bicycles: While getting bicycles for everyone is quite expensive given you have so many people and so little income; it would make your girls somewhat more mobile. You could of course have them share bicycles as well, since it's likely that you won't need them all at the same time much.
Cost: $150 per bicycle,buy 8 more (-$1,200) = (25/39 afterwards); Reward: More mobility
Team Meeting:
[X] Mami plans out another Team meeting for this month. She makes sure that the 3 new girls from Iwata will attend. Mami justifies it on the grounds that it will do them good to be integrated; another small voice whispers intimidated, but if Mami is honest with herself she really just wants to show off. Most of the other girls around Mitakihara have heard rumors of the Serene Imperium, but to these girls in Iwata it must be quite the surprise that such a large team of Magical Girls could exist. Mami also decides that with the hard feelings surrounding the issue she best pick a couple of the more outgoing girls and ask them specifically to make the new girls from Iwata feel welcome.
Mami decides to start with recognizing the team involved in rescuing Kaori, and then identify the new girls as a different set of Iwata girls who have decided to join the Serenes and will provide Kaori with friends and teammates at the new Iwata outpost. Okay, it's mostly fiction, but it is a polite fiction, and drawing a flattering comparison between the new girls and the kidnappers will hopefully ease some of the hard feelings on both sides. After that, announce that Kaoru will be moving to Iwata to setup an apartment and help the new team grow there. Express a hope that the Iwata outpost will continue to grow and become a strong second support of the Serene Imperium.
With that out of the way it would be a good idea to bring out the charts and address the issue everyone want to know about, grief cubes. Mami will blame the interruption of Kaori's kidnapping for delaying the rebuilding of the grief cube stockpile, but that this month's hunting plan should begin that process with an expected net of 11 grief cubes before grief spirals. Express an intent that over the following two to three months grief cube stockpiles should continue to steadily rise until we achieve a full one month's worth of grief cubes stockpiled. Identify that we now have a safe harvest level that well exceeds our upkeep. Thank everyone for their hard work, and particularly call out the two greens who satisfied Kyouko with their hunting behavior so that she has agreed to continue the grief cube sharecropping plan.
Ask if there are any concerns that the Serene members would like to bring to her attention. People can feel free to bring them up now to discuss in the team meeting, or come talk to her after the meeting.
Totals:
Manpower Expended: 1 Mami, 31 Vets, 10 Greens, 1 Associate
Grief Cubes: 21 + 53(Hunting) -42(Upkeep) = 32 -3?(expected grief spirals) = 29?
Money: $6,720 +$13,000(jobs and business) +$2,200(business expansion) -$2,300(expansion) -$1,200(bicycles) -$11,540(Upkeep) = $6,880
I hadn't been planning on it, though it would be amusing.
