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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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Good work destroyers!

[ ] What firm is responsible for coming up with these submarine ideas? Or is this just the navy itself that's decided half-submarines are a good idea?
Honestly our goofy-ass submarine ideas are in line with the goofy-ass designs real navies of this era came up with.

At this point in history, surface warships were the product of thousands of years of gradual evolution of the concept of "ship," and while there'd been some false starts and a few ideas that were taken waaay too seriously like ramming bows on Victorian steam warships, things were mostly sane-ish.

Nobody had the faintest idea how to submarine, by contrast.

Save more ship is more important, yes? Tho I think dealing more damage is more glorious.
"It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will three hundred years to build a new tradition."

-Andrew Cunningham
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.

There is a slight part of me that wants to say go down swinging purely because of the potential pitfalls inherent in having the Princess in the fleet call for saving one's own skin as opposed to upholding the traditions. After all, our position is forever treacherous.
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.

If they all die at the harbour mouth who will lure the enemy into the minefield?
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.

Let's use our minefield! Set up for ambush is best option, I think.
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.

[ ] A look at the Academy from one of the cadets we inspired.
 
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[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.

Try to lure them in the minefield! (And maybe survive to fight another day).

[ ] have Haruna talk with Ota again. How is he fitting in in the new crew? Is seeing the human face of a memeber of the royal family affecting his radical politics? Or are the radical politics affecting Haruna at least a bit?
 
Guh. Urging them to retreat could come back to bite us so hard if we roll badly. I can already hear the admiralty critiquing our lack of 'warrior virtue', but I think it's the right move.

[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.


[ ] I'd like to see how Haruna's mom is handling her daughter being in active combat both on a personal level and a political one. We saw that newspaper's attack on Haruna last post. I'd like to see how her mom handles similar attacks.
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Last chance to do some damage! Roll +Diplomacy.

[ ] Meanwhile, in the office of a Caspian Admiral...
 
[X] Enemy reinforcements coming! Get out of there! Roll +Diplomacy.

[ ] Catch up with both Ota and Kwon, reminiscence about being on a worse sub, how its somewhat better on this one and get to see their pretty unique viewpoint on fighting in this war.
 
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