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Lieutenant Arisukawa Haruna

Balance Stats
❁ • Work / Life • ❁
❁ • ❁ Warrior / Princess ❁ • ❁
❁ • ❁ Radical / Respectable ❁ • ❁


Tactical Stats
Gunnery 0, Navigation +2, Command +2, Technology -4, Personal -2, Strategy +3

Stress: 3


PLEASE READ THE QUEST RULES BELOW

You collectively vote on the actions of Arisukawa Haruna, the first woman to serve openly in the Imperial Akitsukuni Navy.

This quest is set in a universe which is much like our own circa 1910, but with different politics, cultural norms, and ideas about gender and sexuality, as well as some unusual and advanced technology in places.

We are using this quest to explore themes like breaking the glass ceiling, divergent outlooks on gender and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, and the place of royalty.

Content Warning
This quest goes some dark places.

There is violence, often explicit, often unfair, often against undeserving targets.

There are not always good options forward. The protagonist is not necessarily a good person.

There is implied content and discussion of sexual harassment and assault.

This is a world where people are often racist, sexist, queerphobic bigots. Sometimes, even the PC and the people they are friends with.

Voting Rules

We will tell you if write-in votes are allowed. If we do not say that write-ins are allowed, they are not. This is to prevent people from unrealistically hedging their bets.

You may proposal other options in a non-vote format, subject to approval, on non write-in votes.

We will tell you when a vote allows approved voting. If we don't say the answer is no, pick an option. We like making people commit.

Discussions makes the GM feel fuzzy.

Game Rules
When we ask you for a roll, roll 3d6. You are aiming to roll equal or under the value of your stat. If you succeed, Haruna gets through the situation with no real difficulties. If you roll above the target value, Haruna will still succeed, but this success will cost her something or add a complication.

Whenever Haruna loses something or faces hardship from a botched roll, she takes Stress. The more Stress Haruna has, the more the job and the circumstances she's in will get to her, and it'll be reflected in the narrative. Haruna must be kept under 10 Stress: if she reaches 10 Stress, she will suffer a breakdown and the results will not be great for her.

Haruna loses stress by taking time for herself, by making meaningful progress on her dreams, and by kissing tall, beautiful women.

Meta Rules
Author commentary is in italics so you know it's not story stuff.

Please don't complain about the system or the fact we have to roll dice. We've heard it before, we've heard it a thousand times across multiple quests. We're not going to change it, and it wears at our fucking souls.

Just going "oh noooo" or "Fish RNGesus Why!" is fun and fine. Complaining at length because you didn't get what you want less so.

If you have a question, tag both @open_sketchbook and @Artificial Girl. If you only tag one of us, you will be ignored. Seriously, we both write this quest.

And yes this is an alt-history type setting with openly gay and trans people, ahistoric medicine, and weird politics. Just... deal, please?

This quest employs a special system called Snippet Votes. Please read this post for more information.
 
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[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.


Navy Girl Royalty gets a statue of Navy Girl Royalty. It's, like, symbolic or something.
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.

Also wow, Cutest Army Boy wasn't kidding about that colonial posting. Maybe next time they meet, Cutest Army Boy will be demonstrating carrier landings. (Though more likely is a seaplane with ZLL)
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.

I love all things sea monster.
 
[ ] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.
 
[x] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
The tea set we'd never get to use and the silk banner will rot or something, probably. Go with the statue.

Also, I cannot believe it was, in fact, Yachi who we were sent to retrieve. Wonder if he'll be sober enough to remember this... I doubt it, seeing as he hasn't been bragging about that time A PRINCESS came to get him for something.
 
I cannot believe it was, in fact, Yachi who we were sent to retrieve. Wonder if he'll be sober enough to remember this... I doubt it, seeing as he hasn't been bragging about that time A PRINCESS came to get him for something.

Would you want to brag about the time a princess dragged your drunk ass out of a brothel?
 
One of Yachi's key character traits is that he is very bad at judging what is appropriate conversation for the context. It's basically how his honesty and earnest-ness get the better of him. So, yes, he would absolutely tell that story.
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
One of Yachi's key character traits is that he is very bad at judging what is appropriate conversation for the context. It's basically how his honesty and earnest-ness get the better of him. So, yes, he would absolutely tell that story.
He might just have not thought of it while Matsura was with him.
It could have just not come up.
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.

This will definitely make the room a bit quieter, and not take up space. Plus, color besides bulkhead grey!
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
[X] A patterned silk art piece to be hung on a wall, depicting an ancient navy battling a sea monster.

The statue feels a little too on the nose, I think.
 
[X] A small relief statue in stone of a woman in an archway, wearing a tall pointy crown. She is holding a cross staff, a traditional naval navigation aid.
 
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