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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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I like the way the Vista part was handled, and the Privateers part went about as I expected it to eventually go. I'm fully in the "Privateers are now a problem rather than a solution" camp. Time to burn them to the ground and salvage what we can from the ashes. This probably could have been prevented if we had invested all of our time in them this arc, but honestly my opinion is: fuck 'em.

[X] Help Snow White
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.

Explain the situation to the PRT & Protectorate. The Privateers need to be rounded up and the problematic parts sent to jail.
 
Silently Watches said:
This is me giving you guys one absolutely last chance to salvage the Privateers. i.e., me being nice.
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Forgive me if a scenario proving everyone who ever said the Privateers were unsalvageable right does not come across to me as a kindness.

Just look me in the eye, metaphorically, and tell me whether or not you thought sacrificing relations with the heroes was seriosuly going to get any sort of traction.
Silently Watches said:
If you were that interested in keeping them around, you should have chosen to do Part 2, and maybe you wouldn't be in this pickle.
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So because it wasn't a one-off, it didn't get the yellow time-sensitive sticker, and the fact it had jumped ahead to part three is something nobody noticed. Good to know. I'll be sure to ask that about every option in the future.
 
Oooh, can the rogue Privateers be renamed The Pirates?

Should we do a Wide Area Search spell to look for innocent bystanders that might have gotten hurt?

[X] Help Snow White
-[x] Send Sam to guard Tim from retaliation.
-[x] Use Wide Area Search to check for injured bystanders.
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.

If we help Snow White we need to protect Tim, he's really squishy and doesn't have much in the way of direct fighting skills.
 
What if we got sneaky?

Teleport the Privateers first then rescue snow white?

Also guys it might be a good idea to sit down and think a moment about what we want the privateers to become because letting them loos eon their own clearly isn't working.
 
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[ ] Help the injured Privateers
[ ] Take the wounded to Shipwright so he can perform emergency surgery.
This set sides with the escalation faction and will be seen positively by them. Likely causes Snow White to die.
Will be seen disastrously by the Villains and negatively by the PRT/Protectorate.


[ ] Help Snow White
[ ] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.
Will be seen disastrously by the escalating Privateers. Will alert PRT/Protectorate to Privateer actions.
Will likely be seen more positively by the PRT/Protectorate, because we can make it clear from the beginning that we do not advocate that escalation. We can also make it clear that today happened without our and Shipwrights knowledge.
Snow White likely to survive. Snow White arrested. Villains won't really like that, but not as much as her dieing.


[ ] Help Snow White
[ ] Take the wounded to Shipwright so he can perform emergency surgery.
Will keep the power struggle more internal for now. Will allow one last attempt to talk sense into them. We can threaten to cut off their tech access and give all infrastructure information and member list to PRT/Protectorate. Can decide whether to deliver the villain to PRT/Protectorate or let them go as a gesture of good will to the villains. Lots of options here, all different sorts of bad.
Snow White likely to survive for now.
How reputation is affected depends a lot on the subchoices.


[ ] Help the injured Privateers
[ ] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.
I have no idea why we would do that. PRT/Protectorate would have questions why lots of the Privateers have assault rifles though.
Snow White likely to die. Privateers won't like it. Villains won't like it.
 
[X] Help Snow White
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.

The Privateers are busy shitting on the kindness we've showed them, so fuck them. Also, maybe being turned in to the Protectorate will lead Snowy to pulling an Assault. Who knows.
 
... Yeah, this is about the right moment for the Privateers as an organization to die. Danny was what made and kept it together. He had everyone's respect and a power that made them feel valuable. Either we pull the plug, however forcefully, or the gangs will, with the difference that our option lands a couple of them in prison while the other puts them and their families six feet under.

[X] Help Snow White
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.
 
so if we teleport them to shipW and have sam discretely drop snow with the prt would they even notice? we have secure telepathy to our familiar
 
Hmmmm thought, what if we make it clear we're taking Snowy to the protectorate to be processed there? Would that... I dunno, cheese them off less?
 
Always Late said:
Forgive me if a scenario proving everyone who ever said the Privateers were unsalvageable right does not come across to me as a kindness.

Just look me in the eye, metaphorically, and tell me whether or not you thought sacrificing relations with the heroes was seriosuly going to get any sort of traction.
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Look back at 9.5. That's when the militant Privateers outright stated they were opposed to how the heroes have been acting and that they're going to do what they think is necessary, regardless of the PRT/Protectorate's opinion. It was going to take a lot of work to change that, and all of you knew it because I'm pretty damn sure I said so multiple times.

You also knew that things tend to happen with unchosen quest lines. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that all of you know that.

So yes, this is a kindness. If you want to keep the Privateers afloat, if you are just that dedicated to making them a bigger part of the story, here's your chance. Go ahead and vote to do so.

Otherwise, keep in mind that you had seven arcs in which you did absolutely nothing with them, three of which were these choose-your-own adventure setups. Saying that you don't want to lose them now when you've had no interest in them before smacks heavily of bitching for the sake of bitching.
Always Late said:
So because it wasn't a one-off, it didn't get the yellow time-sensitive sticker, and the fact it had jumped ahead to part three is something nobody noticed. Good to know. I'll be sure to ask that about every option in the future.
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Fine. You do that.
Hoyden said:
If we help Snow White we need to protect Tim, he's really squishy and doesn't have much in the way of direct fighting skills.
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He has the ability to make his own Guardian Beast. I want to say the reason no one's voted to make one is that some players are waiting for him to get to S-rank so he can support twins, but I could be misremembering.
globalwarmth said:
so if we teleport them to shipW and have sam discretely drop snow with the prt would they even notice? we have secure telepathy to our familiar
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They'd wonder in short order why Samantha didn't come with, and it doesn't take much to make the leap that you're helping a villain. And the Protectorate would have even more questions for you.
 
[0] Help the injured Privateers
[0] Take the wounded to Shipwright so he can perform emergency surgery.
This set sides with the escalation faction and will be seen positively by them. Likely causes Snow White to die.
Will be seen disastrously by the Villains and negatively by the PRT/Protectorate.
-[0] 'You idiots think I'm not willing to do what it takes? Fine Snow white dies so your feelings don't get hurt. That's right your pride killed a woman. JUST LIKE THE FUCKING EMPIRE, JUST LIKE THE ABB, JUST LIKE THE FUCKING MERCHANTS! YOU WANNA BE A GANG! THEN FROM NOW ON YOU'RE MY GANG!'

Well then there's really only one good choice here.

Snow white dies, I'll be honest I literally don't care if she's nice to orphans or has a bunch of cute dependents, she's an enemy of civilization.

That said we stop pussy footing around. If the Privateers wanna play hardball? We're gonna play hardball, and we're gonna play to win. We take over and we make it fucking clear that we have every intention of holding the city, and that the other villains need to get out or face orbital bombardment.
 
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w34v3r said:
That said we stop pussy footing around. If the Privateers wanna play hardball? We're gonna play hardball, and we're gonna play to win. We take over and we make it fucking clear that we have every intention of holding the city, and that the other villains need to get out or face orbital bombardment.
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triumvirate interrupt when? :D
 
[X] Help Snow White
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.

w34v3r said:
That said we stop pussy footing around. If the Privateers wanna play hardball? We're gonna play hardball, and we're gonna play to win. We take over and we make it fucking clear that we have every intention of holding the city, and that the other villains need to get out or face orbital bombardment.
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I know that Taylor's Cape name is Calamity Witch, but you do realize that she isn't a villain right?
 
I'll be honest, my interest in the Privateers as an organization disappeared along with Danny's memory. I care about Tim, but the other Privateers... I have warm feelings for Kurt and Lacey as characters based on other fics, but here, one of them's clearly gone off the deep end morality wise.

And I'll be honest, literally the only reason I voted for "deal with the Privateers" this time was because I hoped we'd be able to at least lay this issue to rest, to maybe have them stop, even if that means that we lose everybody bar Tim, just no longer having to worry about them screwing stuff would be enough. But I personally say, cut the ties, get whoever we care about out. Hell, instead of kicking Kurt and others from the Privateers, leave ourselves.
 
[X] Help Snow White
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.
 
[X] Help Snow White
-[x] Send Sam to guard Tim from retaliation.
-[x] Use Wide Area Search to check for injured bystanders.
[X] Take the wounded to the Protectorate. They have medical staff on hand.
 
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