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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] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?

I feel like we shouldn't break the law over this.
 
[X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.

Well, I'm not really thrilled about this choice given that it'll be absolutely catastrophic if we fail but we're a subterfuge character so I suppose if we're going to gamble on anything it should be this.
 
[X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.
 
[X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.

I would prefer not causing trouble when potentially lives are at stake.
 
If we choose negotiation or pay them legitimately we look weak. I'm not willing to vote for repression. This is what we are left with. Fortunately, it plays to our strengths.
 
I'm kind off tempted to take him up on his offer really. Let him deal with the angry workers. Maybe they'll deal with him.

Edit : Can we bribe the Foreman not to accept any deal, then call in the captain to help?

Letting the commander handle it could? be a good idea?

But the latter sounds too ruthless and prone to backfiring, trying to purposefully push your commander towards committing atrocities is a) pretty horrible and b) would look really bad if discovered. Whereas the former just makes us look a little weak.
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
 
[X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.
 
[X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman:
Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
 
[X] Press the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out why he decided that demanding more pay after taking on a contract is good business.
If his reasons are legitimate, consider paying. If not...
We can always find another crew - or another foreman.
 
[X] Press the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out why he decided that demanding more pay after taking on a contract is good business.
 
[X] Press the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out why he decided that demanding more pay after taking on a contract is good business.
 
[X] Press the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out why he decided that demanding more pay after taking on a contract is good business.

Either there's a reason for it and we can see if we can find an alternative to spending extra money, or he got greedy and we can explain that the absolute best way this ends for him is with another crew hired for the job and him blacklisted by the entire fleet as a troublemaker.
 
Letting the commander handle it could? be a good idea?

But the latter sounds too ruthless and prone to backfiring, trying to purposefully push your commander towards committing atrocities is a) pretty horrible and b) would look really bad if discovered. Whereas the former just makes us look a little weak.
He seems like the type to try and institute martial law over this or something.
Adhoc vote count started by Rockeye on Nov 24, 2018 at 9:44 PM, finished with 33 posts and 22 votes.

  • [X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.
    [X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
    [X] Press the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out why he decided that demanding more pay after taking on a contract is good business.
    [X] Negotiate with the Foreman:
    Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?

If we're going to take down the captain on charges of him being a corrupt jerk who doesn't follow the rules we need to have an unimpeachable character. Going against regulations so fast will be really bad for us if we get caught.
 
[X] Pay Them… in secret: Go find out what they want, and arrange for it to be done. There's a lot of supplies being brought on board right now, you can fudge the numbers and hide it in the expenditures for steak and wine. Super illegal, but if it works everyone will be happy.
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?
 
[X] Press the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out why he decided that demanding more pay after taking on a contract is good business.
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman: Let's see what he wants, and find out if we can give it to them. Surely, there's a deal that can be struck here?

Seems pretty dumb to break the law right after we decided to act as a model officer.
 
[X] Negotiate with the Foreman

We're still in the "don't give the bastards any excuses" phase of our plans, and we can figure out how to deal with the foreman LATER. We're kiiind of committed to the upstanding approach now.

If we can approval vote I'd also like to support "Press the Foreman," but tactical voting considerations apply here otherwise, since the "break the law and cover it up later" option is neck-and-neck with "negotiate."
 
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