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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] Travel north to attack stragglers steaming back to rally with the Caspian fleet. (Tense, lone wolf action.)
*Insert Das Boot soundtrack here*
 
[X] Escort the Type 14 mother submarine I-05 and her minisubs scouting Port Georgia. (spying and codebreaking.)
 
[x] Travel north to attack stragglers steaming back to rally with the Caspian fleet. (Tense, lone wolf action.)
 
[x] Travel north to attack stragglers steaming back to rally with the Caspian fleet. (Tense, lone wolf action.)
 
[x] Travel north to attack stragglers steaming back to rally with the Caspian fleet. (Tense, lone wolf action.)

We surely cannot do otherwise.

Also, kindly reminder, the rest of the navy is going to get routinely clowned on, we should probably do our best to insulate ourselves.
 
[x] Travel north to attack stragglers steaming back to rally with the Caspian fleet. (Tense, lone wolf action.)
 
The problem with going after stragglers is that the stragglers are most likely going to be smaller warships, like destroyers or lighter cruisers. You don't send battleships on patrol, after all.
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)

Fuck glory. We're on a submarine, our entire purpose is to ambush enemy ships and sink them before they know we're there.

And anything that steers us away from OTL Japan's doctrine for its fleet subs is to be encouraged.
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)
 
[X] Escort the Type 14 mother submarine I-05 and her minisubs scouting Port Georgia. (spying and codebreaking.)

intel is the best way to gain the upper ground
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)

The insult off was a beauty. Also calling us a Sodomite is...an insult that just isn't very effective.

And finally devolving to firing revolutionary crap is the sort of thing that literally only a princess could get away with xD
 
[x] Shadowing Red Squadron in deep patrols up the coast towards Port Georgia. (Straight into battle.)
Chousing this becuse subs attacking damaged ships as they left the battlefield let me murder half the RN in steam and iron.:D
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)
 
Challenging vote. Hard to make a decision. My natural inclination, though, from a personal perspective, must ultimately be:

[x] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)

It is a soldier's duty to serve her Empress and her nation. I dare say this will be the greater duty, of the choices available.
 
[X] Travel north to attack stragglers steaming back to rally with the Caspian fleet. (Tense, lone wolf action.)
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)

While there is a degree of predetermination to the coming events, it is important to strategically strangle the Caspian navy to the greatest degree possible. Every coaling station, every port denied to them no matter how small is a cut that will begin a long and painful death. The more limited their options, the more they are forced to either sit in port or come out and face the Imperial Navy in open battle. With Akitsukuni's supreme dependence on command of the sea, preventing the Caspians from being able to raid and denying them operational flexibility is crucial.
 
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[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)
 
[X] Lead a pack of coastal subs to raid smaller Caspian ports and lay mines. (Useful and daring, if without glory.)
 
[X] Escort the Type 14 mother submarine I-05 and her minisubs scouting Port Georgia. (spying and codebreaking.)

Sneky lil subbarine time.
 
[X] Escort the Type 14 mother submarine I-05 and her minisubs scouting Port Georgia. (spying and codebreaking.)

We are the signalator.
 
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