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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] 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)

It would be utterly dishonorable not to help them! We can probably do it!
 
[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)
 
So... question.

Between the mines and the wreck of the monitor, the port is pretty much knocked out right?
Basically.

First they have to clear the wreck out, always hard given there's munitions onboard.

Then they gotta do a full sweep for mines, because for every you find, there's always a chance of there being like 5 more you didn't....

And that assumes they have the resources to do so.

Small commercial cameras are still a few years away from coming to Akitsukuni for anyone but professional photographers.

So much for that.
 
[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)

Yeah, I don't feel we can do better. I feel bad especially since we will probably be commended for knocking out the port for a while, but killing ourselves over it won't improve the situation. We'll make sure to make that little boat's story properly heroic in our report, right?
 
[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)

As much as it pains me helping the mini sub survivors looks suicidal for our (larger) crew, I can't really see a way to save them.

Pretending to be a civilian vessel in distress would be considered a violation of the rules of war, yes. Pretending to be a military vessel is much fuzzier.

Does this world have an equivalent to the Hague 1899 and 1907 peace conferences and the relates Regulations on the Laws of Armed Conflict?
The Conference in the other questl looks like similar in spirit to those two (although not sponsored by the Tsar) and might even be the third one which iirc was planned, but never happened in real history.
 
[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)

Can't order them to surrender either as they'd triangulate it. Could do it on the move in Caspian


I don't think we should be on record as ordering another ship to surrender.
Frankly, if an admiral wants to make an issue of it then it's only going to be the ones who don't like a woman in the navy. Sinking submarine in hostile waters under shore bombardment? Not even a battleship would head in there.

They're in a stricken ship, I'm pretty sure we have a duty as sailors, let alone as comrades in arms.
Aye, but we also have a duty to the nation as a whole, our ship and our crew. That outweighs our duty to our fellow mariners in this instance. Especially as the Caspians have a duty to mariners. One they might ignore, but that has its uses too.

If there is a chance and there is, I will always opt to save lives. Always.
Ideally we would be able to recover the crew. As it is we've traded a coastal submarine for two months of strategic advantage in this region due to the enemy's inability to use this port.

Some interesting links:

Allied submarines in the Pacific War - Wikipedia

Japanese submarines in the Pacific War - Wikipedia

Edit: We appear to be in an upscaled variant of the Type 6 submarine
 
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[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)
 
[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)

Can't order them to surrender either as they'd triangulate it. Could do it on the move in Caspian



Frankly, if an admiral wants to make an issue of it then it's only going to be the ones who don't like a woman in the navy. Sinking submarine in hostile waters under shore bombardment? Not even a battleship would head in there.


Aye, but we also have a duty to the nation as a whole, our ship and our crew. That outweighs our duty to our fellow mariners in this instance. Especially as the Caspians have a duty to mariners. One they might ignore, but that has its uses too.


Ideally we would be able to recover the crew. As it is we've traded a coastal submarine for two months of strategic advantage in this region due to the enemy's inability to use this port.

Some interesting links:

Allied submarines in the Pacific War - Wikipedia

Japanese submarines in the Pacific War - Wikipedia

Edit: We appear to be in an upscaled variant of the Type 6 submarine
You're a whole war off on your estimates here. Two, actually.
 
[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)
 
[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)

Can't order them to surrender either as they'd triangulate it. Could do it on the move in Caspian



Frankly, if an admiral wants to make an issue of it then it's only going to be the ones who don't like a woman in the navy. Sinking submarine in hostile waters under shore bombardment? Not even a battleship would head in there.


Aye, but we also have a duty to the nation as a whole, our ship and our crew. That outweighs our duty to our fellow mariners in this instance. Especially as the Caspians have a duty to mariners. One they might ignore, but that has its uses too.


Ideally we would be able to recover the crew. As it is we've traded a coastal submarine for two months of strategic advantage in this region due to the enemy's inability to use this port.

Some interesting links:

Allied submarines in the Pacific War - Wikipedia

Japanese submarines in the Pacific War - Wikipedia

Edit: We appear to be in an upscaled variant of the Type 6 submarine

Nope, not a Type 6. Remember, the I-02 was bought from New Allegheny.
 
[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)
 
You're a whole war off on your estimates here. Two, actually.
If you're referring to the strategic advantage I mean in the local area while they shift the ship and de-mine the port. Which will take a while. If you mean the subs:

Nope, not a Type 6. Remember, the I-02 was bought from New Allegheny.
Yeah, but the one we're in is too big to be a Type-1 Holland class since apparently the coastal subs have 20-30 crew while the Type-6 had 16. So to be more accurate I suppose we would be in some kind of wonky-land Type-1 that has five times the crew at minimum.
 
[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)
 
If you're referring to the strategic advantage I mean in the local area while they shift the ship and de-mine the port. Which will take a while. If you mean the subs:


Yeah, but the one we're in is too big to be a Type-1 Holland class since apparently the coastal subs have 20-30 crew while the Type-6 had 16. So to be more accurate I suppose we would be in some kind of wonky-land Type-1 that has five times the crew at minimum.

You're thinking too early! :p
 
You're thinking too early! :p
Separated by two wars and thinking too early...

What's our displacement, crew numbers and hull count. Because there's something fucky going on if I'm checking the list of WWII submarines.

Especially when those subs are 25-30 man subs with crew sizes of our coastals.

Only thing I've found above 30 men were the SF class. And those buggers where experimental.

Hell, the O and R classes fit but they're coastal US subs and not domestic ones.

We can't be an S class... surely not.

V-Class? They were experimental in some way...

Porpoise, Salmon and Tambor?

Gato-Class? They were designed between the wars but really? Sub development is that far ahead and we're only starting?

Now for WWII ships: Balao and Tench but after that we enter the Cold War subs.
 
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Separated by two wars and thinking too early...

What's our displacement, crew numbers and hull count. Because there's something fucky going on if I'm checking the list of WWII submarines.

Especially when those subs are 25-30 man subs with crew sizes of our coastals.

Only thing I've found above 30 men were the SF class. And those buggers where experimental.

Hell, the O and R classes fit but they're coastal US subs and not domestic ones.

We can't be an S class... surely not.

V-Class? They were experimental in some way...

Porpoise, Salmon and Tambor?

Gato-Class? They were designed between the wars but really? Sub development is that far ahead and we're only starting?

Now for WWII ships: Balao and Tench but after that we enter the Cold War subs.

I based the I-02 on the AA-1 class since it's a semi-experimental boat that the New Alleghenians built and then decided they didn't want to commission. Essentially a proto-fleet sub. The coastal boats are basically Ha-3/Ha-7 class boats with mine laying capability.
 
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