Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
- Pronouns
- He
By the way, Lunaryon, I've got to say how impressed I am at how quickly you're updating this and for how long you've been doing it. Good job!
- Location
- In the ocean of my heart
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Looking at the "everything" details, I don't think any of them are immediately tactically relevant: we're gearing up for a battle soon, and them knowing that information or not probably won't affect their actions or the outcome much.
In the middle tier of explanation, the Dark Kingdom probably isn't relevant to the battle as such, but if we manage to capture any enemy combatants for interrogation, the new people knowing about it beforehand might make that go more smoothly.
I think we should explain enough to get them on our side, and enough so they don't have too much room to yell at us later for withholding information. If even we have to acknowledge that 'this part sounds completely insane', it probably won't be helpful toward that goal. We can get to those details after the resulting team has worked together a bit and they have more reason to trust us and take our odder claims seriously.
On second thought, Inuyasha immediately recognized that we had glamors up. He might have lie detection abilities from his yokai side (my knowledge of his source material is extremely superficial, so I really am just guessing here), and them not going off could be a useful point in our favor. Also, if anyone is going to believe reincarnation, it's these two. Maybe "sealing away" specific people or groups, too, depending on how much they know about the Shikon Jewel at this point.
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(Edit) Even if we don't tell them about the Moon Kingdom history, there are two critical details that we should tell them that weren't mentioned in any of the three explanation vote options:
1. We don't have an information gathering network; our manpower is just the two of us (only mention Naru if the "Everything" vote wins). Meanwhile, the Dark Kingdom has the resources to run several different operations simultaneously. If they can help us find the enemy's bases faster, that alone would be very helpful.
2. The Dark Kingdom has access to a mana containment technique that can mask many ways of detecting their presence. Our only reliable method of working around that is to physically travel through it (which is pretty obvious to us, but we don't know what sorts of supernatural senses the other group has). If they can offer something more reliable (inuyasha's nose seems more than up to the task), that would be very helpful.
In the middle tier of explanation, the Dark Kingdom probably isn't relevant to the battle as such, but if we manage to capture any enemy combatants for interrogation, the new people knowing about it beforehand might make that go more smoothly.
I think we should explain enough to get them on our side, and enough so they don't have too much room to yell at us later for withholding information. If even we have to acknowledge that 'this part sounds completely insane', it probably won't be helpful toward that goal. We can get to those details after the resulting team has worked together a bit and they have more reason to trust us and take our odder claims seriously.
On second thought, Inuyasha immediately recognized that we had glamors up. He might have lie detection abilities from his yokai side (my knowledge of his source material is extremely superficial, so I really am just guessing here), and them not going off could be a useful point in our favor. Also, if anyone is going to believe reincarnation, it's these two. Maybe "sealing away" specific people or groups, too, depending on how much they know about the Shikon Jewel at this point.
[x] [Tell] Explain Everything
(Edit) Even if we don't tell them about the Moon Kingdom history, there are two critical details that we should tell them that weren't mentioned in any of the three explanation vote options:
1. We don't have an information gathering network; our manpower is just the two of us (only mention Naru if the "Everything" vote wins). Meanwhile, the Dark Kingdom has the resources to run several different operations simultaneously. If they can help us find the enemy's bases faster, that alone would be very helpful.
2. The Dark Kingdom has access to a mana containment technique that can mask many ways of detecting their presence. Our only reliable method of working around that is to physically travel through it (which is pretty obvious to us, but we don't know what sorts of supernatural senses the other group has). If they can offer something more reliable (inuyasha's nose seems more than up to the task), that would be very helpful.
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- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
[X][Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[x] [Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
If nothing else, there's no benefit to doing this now, as compared to doing this later when he will presumably be no less capable of spotting a lie.
Also- and note that this piece of @Lunaryon 's is basically my first exposure to Inuyasha- I suspect that that our ambivalently friendly yokai (?) is the type to get suspicious, bored, or both if we give him a long backstory monologue. Especially when, well, bat-demons all over the place.
Or overhearing enemies rant and monologue.
He might, or he might not. Since we don't know that he can detect lies reliably, especially through a "pretty good" glamour, we shouldn't deliberately tell him improbable stories in the expectation that he'll be so confident that we aren't lying.
If nothing else, there's no benefit to doing this now, as compared to doing this later when he will presumably be no less capable of spotting a lie.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
-- All of the above
-- The Youma are part of a group called the Dark Kingdom that is attacking Tokyo
-- You and Sailor Mercury are looking for Allies to help remove these monsters from Tokyo
We just met, we can do the existential stuff later. Kagome and the Senshi can become Reincarnation buddies!
And allies are always welcome.
-- All of the above
-- The Youma are part of a group called the Dark Kingdom that is attacking Tokyo
-- You and Sailor Mercury are looking for Allies to help remove these monsters from Tokyo
We just met, we can do the existential stuff later. Kagome and the Senshi can become Reincarnation buddies!
And allies are always welcome.
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- Location
- Canada
[x] [Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
[x] [Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
1. Plan: So essentially you're saying "broad sweeps now, everything after the current battle is over"?
I think I can agree with that.
If we're going that route, I think my side comment about the Dark Kingdom's mana containment technique bears mentioning before the battle (Dark Kingdom bases seem to fairly consistently have one, and if Kagome or Inuyasha can spot it, it would help the team track down the source of the problem).
Our lack of an information gathering network, and the fact that the Dark Kingdom isn't the only group able to use the mana containment barrier (so its presence isn't a guaranteed sign of their involvement), are strategic information, rather than tactical information, so they can wait.
2. Yokai: Japanese uses a very different writing system than English, and it doesn't use exactly the same phoneme palette anyway, so the spelling of Japanese loanwords in English is inherently somewhat variable (or at least inherently subject to debate). I've also seen it spelled "youkai."
The closest translation is probably either "spirit" or "fey / fairy". "Demon" is sometimes used (and I think the Inuyasha dub used it), but "demon" is only a fair description of some yokai, not all.
Unless you're talking about Inuyasha specifically, in which case I'm pretty sure he's only half yokai (specifically a dog yokai) on his father's side, with a human mother (I think she got killed by the dad's enemies before the start of the series, though).
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I'm saying "broad sweeps now, everything at a time when it is convenient to infodump the relevant information." That may or may not occur immediately post-battle.
Well, yes. I've heard the sound pronounced in Japanese; it's a long 'o,' give or take a little. But I wasn't sure I was remembering which word to use for the specific class of paranormal entity that Inuyasha is.
Sir_Braazmiir
Tiefling Paladin
- Location
- Wherever I am
[X][Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X][Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
Good to tell them about the enemies they make before inviting them to be our allies.
Good to tell them about the enemies they make before inviting them to be our allies.
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- Location
- Gotham
[X][Tell] Explain Everything
-- All of the above
-- The Dark Kingdom has been sealed away since the fall of the ancient Moon Kingdom that existed before the rise of modern human civilization
-- You are reincarnations of ancient warriors of the Moon Kingdom, searching for the other Solar Guardians and your missing Princess
-- You are entirely aware that this sounds not only insane, but completely farcical, and you worry that they might either not believe you, or think that you are lying about specific parts to make you sound better
-- All of the above
-- The Dark Kingdom has been sealed away since the fall of the ancient Moon Kingdom that existed before the rise of modern human civilization
-- You are reincarnations of ancient warriors of the Moon Kingdom, searching for the other Solar Guardians and your missing Princess
-- You are entirely aware that this sounds not only insane, but completely farcical, and you worry that they might either not believe you, or think that you are lying about specific parts to make you sound better
Comrade Future
Man from Zeerust
- Location
- USSR
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
[X][Tell] Explain Everything
P.S. It's a shame that Makoto hasn't joined yet. But Kagome is cute too - which means we now have three kawaii schoolgirls kicking monsters asses. And this is what I watch anime for - therefore a one-to-one like.
P.S. It's a shame that Makoto hasn't joined yet. But Kagome is cute too - which means we now have three kawaii schoolgirls kicking monsters asses. And this is what I watch anime for - therefore a one-to-one like.
[X][Tell] Explain the Broad Sweeps
If Inuyasha is around, that means that there probably are other supernatural groups in Japan that we are currently unaware of. Supernatural groups that are probably going to be less than amused at how the Dark Kingdom is going around breaking the Masquerade left and right. We may have more potential allies, or at least cobelligerents, than we know. Just because they are anti-DK doesn't mean that they are pro-humanity.
If Inuyasha is around, that means that there probably are other supernatural groups in Japan that we are currently unaware of. Supernatural groups that are probably going to be less than amused at how the Dark Kingdom is going around breaking the Masquerade left and right. We may have more potential allies, or at least cobelligerents, than we know. Just because they are anti-DK doesn't mean that they are pro-humanity.