It would probably be less so if a casualty didn't include a 50% chance of death with it. Perhaps a low chance of death, but a moderate chance of needing a month to recover, so the girl is only out for a turn instead of removed entirely? If it were like that, I'd be much more inclined towards allowing some small casualty percentages.
Probably. One of the problems with forming a group is becoming attached to the members, so cascading failure is quite possible.
Well it's actually 20% chance of death per casualty in pack hunting, 50% in solo; pairs I forget if it's 40% or 35%.
I can see that. I personally blame @FixerUpper for making me give them names and starting this trend towards them having stories of their own!
That just happens to be connected to a lost pet picture? I can kind of see it as reasonably deniable, but it's still a bit more revealing, and the level of secrecy is meant to be complete, not simply plausibly deniable.
Oh, I wasn't actually requesting counseling be a free action; I was having Mami think about who might be well-suited to the job, and consider what might be needed to make it work (eg: how much time to schedule, if a private room/office is needed, balancing locations, etc). I expected it to require a labor unit (or maybe half a unit), but wasn't sure on the details.
Hmmmm....
After like 4 straight turns of everyone saying that they wouldn't vote for plans with significant casualty rates, I kinda gave up on it. That, and breaking our record now would probably be horrible for our morale.
My dastardly plan is revealed!
I figure if we can't sell it, the bonuses they give should be worth a small morale bonus at the very least.Puella magi population density is way too low for the posters idea to be practical, though I like the idea of putting our manual up online. The bigger issue is that it'd probably just fade into obscurity, and not get out to the people who need it. Unless we had a magic writer or something. Something to consider. Making it something like Dungeons: the Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition is probably a better plan, something released online and in the form of a playable tabletop RPG.
Essentially these are the only suggestions I've had so far:
Probably leaning towards giving her a simple +10 to scouting type rolls. Not spectacular, but should be useful given what you're getting into.
Scouting I'm thinking what I'll do is probably half the cost I had, and remove the diplomacy component. Leave it as simply a way of gathering information on what's around you. Since that is valuable in itself. Though obviously odds of success on scouting go down radically against other organized groups.
Scouting is a lot weaker now, and probably worth skipping given our current excess of territory, even at half cost. If it counts for avoiding ambushes and catching poachers that bonus is reasonable, but if it only applies to scouting that just seems weak given the revised scouting mechanics.
I'm glad you like them. Hmm that makes sense too. I also need to price things out.
It would be broad in the same way that Mami's Persuasive bonus is. Applying to scouting, counter-poaching, surveillance, etc. This is also more useful than you'd think considering the opposed rolls a stealth type can force. For instance Taya needed a >70 roll before to beat the tandem casting poachers illusion (since they were tandem casting for a bonus to DC). Base roll for a clairvoyant of the same level to penetrate stealth magic is DC50.
So I couldn't really come up with anything off hand for it that would be useful now. I mean in the distant future if you develop a space program then a space type bonus would be awesome, but not right now. Though you do actually have a fair few advantages over humans if you wanted to develop a space program.Safe Passage nominally comes before it, but I'll let you skip it and try to go straight for Business is Business which includes it, but at increased difficulty since they don't have the chance to get used to you being around, if that makes sense. Also keep in mind that agreement would go both ways, so you'd have them in your territory as well.
Overhunting by 5 units instead of 4 (13 harvest instead of 12) will be +8 to demon strength with RT, which leaves it at +1 at the end. Even just averaging with the 17 block we're merging with it will still take it down to 0. OK.
Dunno, there's lots of pluses and minuses there. Kyouko has a couple years of living on the streets, so is probably very familiar with the rank and file police types. On the other hand, having lived on the streets, she's very much a 'suspicious' character type herself.
Let's just hope they don't start a match of Touhou soccer. That'd probably draw their attention more. Though I do wonder just how obvious the Fun With Magic is- what are they doing that the police get suspicious about it?
Now you're making me try to figure out how cheaply we could get a space program going. From what it sounded like we teleported from Mitikihara to Itawa, which according to your map is 40km away. LEO is 160km. So 4 chained teleporters would get us there, but we also need it to be traveling really fast (7.8 km/s according to wikipedia) so that's probably out.
Her abilities seemed like just illusions to me, could you tell me where the idea of mind control comes from?
The interest rate on the business loan would be around 5%. The success chance will be +10 for having a magic cook (restaurants aren't all about the food afterall), and you can retry for a relatively minor fee the next month just like with the courier business.
You could though this is likely to incur some grief cube costs. Plus you're still carrying over that "don't draw attention with superhuman feats" restriction.
Firstly, I meant to imply it, but you actually teleported to Itawa in 3 hops of about 13 km each. Secondly you're still going to be magic limited in such a scenario. If you have infinite magic you can actually use fairly short teleports to eventually achieve orbital velocity by using gravity and teleporting at an angle to the Earth, unfortunately you don't have infinite magic.
If you did some research you could probably manage a sufficiently good stealth magic to cloak a space ship from mundane detection. The poachers managed to render an area normal looking afterall. Stealth magic is quite capable of rendering something completely invisible. This would be a series of research projects really: rendering an area invisible, making an invisibility effect that moves with the target, making an invisibility effect that holds true at high velocities, making it invisible to radar (or you could just build it out of wood or something I guess). Currently your stealth users are more along the lines of "unnoticed", which doesn't tend to perform so well against electronics, or they put up illusions of what the area should look like, it's not really high fidelity.
So a bit over 2k/month. Is the debt repayment/interest automatically taken out of the 10k/month? (IE we'd actually be generating 12k but 2k goes into debt repayment)
Seems to me like the exact opposite.
That was in reference to the Rods from God. Spaceships are probably cloakable, but a giant metal pole falling down and hitting something probably isn't.
From the concept of her wish, to make people listen to her father.
I need to dig through for my old research notes, but the 10k is after your loan payment including paying on the principle actually, I just can't remember what repayment length I set for it.
That's my bad then. I always intended for it to be 3 jumps though. Since I had in mind that in TTS the vast vast majority of teleporters (the main character is considered unique for her extraordinary 200km range) have a 20km single jump limit.
I believe this is what I meant when I wrote it, that you weren't shuffling them in a couple at a time.
You will if you need new accounts and identities. He's not particularly pleased with you of late.
The way I interpreted that was giving her father limited mind control powers, not herself, she didn't seem to demonstrate any herself. Though I see where you're going with this.
Hmm this is an interesting analysis. I do like it, but I'm loathe to add that layer of complexity to the system. I've been thinking of them as more close enough to be interchangeable with a certain degree of training.
Curse your diabolical plan being successful!
