Voting is open
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.
 
Last edited:
We can't save them. If we go out there, we start taking shore battery fire and quickly die. I'm open to the clever stuff, but just going out there to save them is a quick way to all die together.
 
It is not possible to save them, the silent service isn't a rescue unit, not only would surfacing near a zeroed in on target be suicide, even after submerging we'd be in danger, a shell exploding underwater would crush our hull. It's a shame but letting them surrender is the best choice. And as mentioned above, the likelyhood of anyone's listening to a radio set, much less said set working under these conditions where minor shocks could break them easily, would be infantinsemly small.
Really, the silent service's motto should be "ours is to do and die".
And to the idea of a commando raid, are we trying to commit suicide ? Submarine crews were not the SBS, they where smelly and underfed after long deployments, not equipped for close quarters combat (I don't remember ever reading about an arms locker in the old subs, an accidental discharge was either a guaranteed kill or worse, and good luck maintaining them in a cramped dark and wet submarine). No, the only option is to leave them for the army, a raiding unit (If they've got connections enough to require such a rare unit) or the diplomats to save.
 
Last edited:
Really even if they can't hear the surrender message over the radio having it on record for the end of the war could be useful for the negotiations. They may have lost their lives for the empress but it was not in vain their deaths will be used to bludgeon the Caspians for a better settlement. Also good propaganda never forget the propaganda
 
Last edited:
Small commercial cameras are still a few years away from coming to Akitsukuni for anyone but professional photographers.
 
Yeah. On the other hand, reconnaissance is part of our mission, so we actually MIGHT have photographic equipment; I agree with Ebbor.
 
I'd be tempted to say the sub should partially surface while leaving long enough to get spotted and then resubmerge and get out of the area. The objective being to draw some attention off of the coastal sub and to basically say "hey, it was the sub out here that sank that monitor" so that hopefully they won't be as vindictive to them. The sub should keep an eye out for the shore batteries shifting to it to see if it gets spotted. The sub should be able to submerge before they can get the range dialed in well enough to actually hit it.

Otherwise, rescue simply isn't a realistic option. To even get there in time would be hard and the spot is already dialed in by the shore batteries so they would be able to hit I-02 almost immediately. It would be suicide. The sub either stays hidden and keeps watching or leaves the area.
 
Even if you had photographic equipment, taking good photographs at night without a flash or other artificial lighting in this era means a very long exposure, which isn't conducive to taking quick snapshots of a scene.
 
[X] We have no choice: It does no one any favors to let your boat possibly be damaged or even sunk in a rescue mission. Then you'll all be in the water yourself. Besides, the Caspians will probably come and pick up survivors, right? But on the other hand, they might think she's the sub that torpedoed the monitor... (No roll, but you have to rely on the goodwill of the Caspian sailors here)
 
[X] We have no choice: It does no one any favors to let your boat possibly be damaged or even sunk in a rescue mission. Then you'll all be in the water yourself. Besides, the Caspians will probably come and pick up survivors, right? But on the other hand, they might think she's the sub that torpedoed the monitor... (No roll, but you have to rely on the goodwill of the Caspian sailors here)

Ain't war hell?
 
[X] Go to their aid: Surface the boat and go in to pick up survivors. Leaving them is unthinkable! (Hard tactics roll, possibility to save the friendly crew)
 
[x] We have no choice: It does no one any favors to let your boat possibly be damaged or even sunk in a rescue mission. Then you'll all be in the water yourself. Besides, the Caspians will probably come and pick up survivors, right? But on the other hand, they might think she's the sub that torpedoed the monitor... (No roll, but you have to rely on the goodwill of the Caspian sailors here)

It sucks, but losing two submarines, one of which is essentially new and very expensive, along with both crews, is worse than losing one. Let's hope the Caspians are willing to actually follow the rules of war here.
 
So... question.

Between the mines and the wreck of the monitor, the port is pretty much knocked out right?
 
[X] Plan record everything
[x] We have no choice we can't help
[x] Message Ha-17 to surrender
[x] Record the caspians actions in every format we have available to us in case of warcrimes
 
[X] We have no choice: It does no one any favors to let your boat possibly be damaged or even sunk in a rescue mission. Then you'll all be in the water yourself. Besides, the Caspians will probably come and pick up survivors, right? But on the other hand, they might think she's the sub that torpedoed the monitor... (No roll, but you have to rely on the goodwill of the Caspian sailors here)
 
Voting is open
Back
Top