Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
- Thread starter Lunaryon
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- San Ramon, CA
Kimiko: Everyone, thank you for arriving promptly to this briefing of the "D K Task Force". There have been some insights that we have managed to get from our...prisoner, regarding the vast scope of this operation. In short, Tokyo is at war, and we're the last to know about it. Make no mistake, our foe is insidious, powerful, and merciless. But with our teamwork and training, we WILL find where they are hiding, and protect our citizens. We've got some researchers mapping out their prior operations to see if they can determine any patterns, and we are double-checking the reports from the call-in line to see if we can detect commonalities. Fair warning, it may be some time until we get a hit. It was sheer luck that we were able to find the clock shop and the...bakery. Brew up some coffee, men, we're going to be here a while.
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*Usagi is sitting on her bed, with a phone, a notepad, and an open phonebook. After looking at an entry in the phonebook, she dials in a number.*
Usagi: Hello, Delicious Kreme? Sorry to bother you, but I was trying to confirm a rumor I heard from a friend of mine. Is there any big promotion or sale or event happening with your establishment? ...Oh, a zesty new flavor of ice cream? Sounds delicious! Yes, I'll be sure to tell my friends all about it. Thank you very much! Goodbye!"
Luna: How many does that make?
Usagi: We've got 5 potential leads; I think we can call the girls to see which we can investigate first. I hope the ice cream place is normal, though.
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*Usagi is sitting on her bed, with a phone, a notepad, and an open phonebook. After looking at an entry in the phonebook, she dials in a number.*
Usagi: Hello, Delicious Kreme? Sorry to bother you, but I was trying to confirm a rumor I heard from a friend of mine. Is there any big promotion or sale or event happening with your establishment? ...Oh, a zesty new flavor of ice cream? Sounds delicious! Yes, I'll be sure to tell my friends all about it. Thank you very much! Goodbye!"
Luna: How many does that make?
Usagi: We've got 5 potential leads; I think we can call the girls to see which we can investigate first. I hope the ice cream place is normal, though.
- Location
- In the ocean of my heart
I mean isn't the company a excuse to approach and interact with potential victims without rousing suspicion?
I can see the general on out the feild to take advantage of targets of opportunity while planing big engery heists.
[x] [Floor] Talent Offices
[x] [Makoto] Trainer
I can see the general on out the feild to take advantage of targets of opportunity while planing big engery heists.
[x] [Floor] Talent Offices
[x] [Makoto] Trainer
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The sad thing is, this would probably work really well, and we could just have Naru Do it too.
But maybe from a payphone, just in case....
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
Not sure how to feel about Makoto's Councilor granted actions being all mixed around like that. On the one hand, I currently would prefer an extra Stewardship action over a Martial by making her the Trainer, and it's not like the benefits given by our Councilors have been consistent in the first place. On the other hand, the mixup just reflexively irks me as a gimmick. *Shrug*
Luna gives another slot in the same category, plus has a chance to give a bonus/new Trait or remove one of our negative Traits (speaking of, we luckily already got rid of the negative Trait tied to Spymaster, Impatient, so it may be worth considering switching her to another category, at least temporarily?). Naru gives a 5% chance at a random event in the same category. Ami gives another Personal Action rather than anything tied to a particular category. And now this from Makoto.
[X][Makoto] Trainer
[X][Floor] Dark Room
Luna gives another slot in the same category, plus has a chance to give a bonus/new Trait or remove one of our negative Traits (speaking of, we luckily already got rid of the negative Trait tied to Spymaster, Impatient, so it may be worth considering switching her to another category, at least temporarily?). Naru gives a 5% chance at a random event in the same category. Ami gives another Personal Action rather than anything tied to a particular category. And now this from Makoto.
[X][Makoto] Trainer
[X][Floor] Dark Room
Sir_Braazmiir
Tiefling Paladin
- Location
- Wherever I am
Which trait should we prioritize removing next, Craven or Lazy?
[x] [Makoto] Trainer
[x] [Floor] Managerial Offices
Ekzentric Lohner
I miss Wildstar...
To be fair, the canon Sailor Senshi fell for a surprising number of schemes...
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X][Makoto] Trainer
[X][Floor] Dark Room
[X][Floor] Dark Room
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Yeah, the genre's not exactly great on either side's intelligence. Then again...To be fair, the canon Sailor Senshi fell for a surprising number of schemes...
I think we're starting to learn why in most magical girl anime the authorities stay the hell out of things.
Failure to follow the genre expectations is just a neverending kick in the balls.
I think it's cute, as long as it doesn't leave us permanently unable to get a second Martial action without finding someone with Martial higher than Sailor Jupiter (which could be tricky though Sailor Venus may be competitive; I suspect from her canon athletic feats that she has Tuning II or Tuning III).
Action economy hell is a pain.
Problem. Doing this requires supplanting Ami as Grand Magister, or Makoto as Trainer.
In the former case, we take an immediate -2 hit to Usagi's effective Learning, and lose any bonus to stat increases because Usagi actually has higher Learning than Luna does. As a consolation prize we get a second Learning action... but at the price of losing the Intrigue action.
In the latter case, more or less the same thing happens to Usagi's effective Martial.
In both cases, we lose out on the +2 Intrigue bonus from Luna potentially replacing it with the +1 from the respective Sailor Scout taking over the Spymaster position.
We get either +1 Martial and +1 ??? action at the cost of -1 Intrigue and Stewardship action (if Luna supplants Makoto who goes elsewhere), or +1 Learning action at the cost of -1 Learning action (if Luna replaces Ami). There are some other results but we're going way down into the weeds there.
I honestly don't think it's a good idea putting Luna outside her strengths. We are gradually chipping away at the flaw traits as it is, after all. And we don't know how lucky Luna had to roll to blow up Impatient in Week Freaking Two.
I kind of like it. Usually council mechanics just mean a very simple "now you have two actions" thing, but in this game it actually makes some difference who is in which slot, and you can customize. Like, if we really, really, really wanted three Learning actions in one turn we could totally make Makoto our Spymistress and Luna our Grand Magister for a turn or something. It'd have costs but we could do it.
[X][Makoto] Trainer
[X][Floor] Dark Room
[X][Floor] Dark Room
Hmm.
It seems Makoto is capable of coming up with odd and unexpected ways to solve problems even if she isn't aware of the problem in the first place. What else would you call manifesting her powers so hard it reveals Usagi's hidden princess status but an odd and unexpected solution to the problem?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
First successful use of Jupiter Serendipity Revelation?
Hopefully there will be many more.
...wait, we know that mind control tends to be either very difficult and specific, or else blunt hammery and imprecise right?
Would their behavior make sense if you assume they were mind controlled for a very long time but their circuits are kind of scrambled?
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- Mid-Atlantic
That... would explain a LOT.
And, come to think of it, is broadly in line with what we know.
The youma are inhuman entities with overwhelming appetites and (in most cases) little or no understanding of human social structures. Even recently ex-human youma may well be individuals with profoundly distorted perceptions before getting high on life energy, let alone after it.
Beryl's dark generals, meanwhile, are brainwashing victims.
No wonder their wits are a bit... hit-or-miss.
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
That's not actually required though? You know we're not limited to only assigning her to those other two positions right? Like you said, we can eventually chip away at the Overly Emotional Traits naturally over time, but she can provide benefits aside from that if she's assigned to either Stewardship, which currently doesn't have a Councilor to displace, or replaces Naru on Diplomacy, with Naru either going to Stewardship herself or filling in for Intrigue. Naru can afford to go wherever honestly, since her Councilor benefits are so similar for each category.
Here's the potential permanent bonuses we could roll for to replace the now achieved Impatient removal, by making Luna Chancellor or Manager. The main question then is whether that's worth moving the Intrigue Action to the other category, the Intrique +2 becoming an other stat +1, and replacing/removing her increase to Usagi's Intrigue learning speed. I'm not necessarily saying it is worth that, I just wanted people to be aware of and discuss the choice.
Wasn't complaining about it, it's certainly unique. I was just listing the specific differences to try to keep them straight in my head. I actually missed one, with Naru also providing minor Funds gains in one of two ways (either reducing Usagi's deficit, or rolling for 1d8 Funds every even numbered Turn).
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
We are if we want to take advantage of her ability to eliminate the Flaw traits.
If we're prepared to accept "chance of getting a positive trait" instead, we have more options. I thought you were talking about eliminating the flaw.
@Lunaryon , by the way, does Luna now have a chance of granting positive Intrigue-related traits, or did that particular "might improve your traits" benefit from being Spymaster evaporate after we lost Impatient?
Right, so you get things like "Carry out Beryl's Orders" and "Shouldn't we warn people that youma are attacking them?" clashing and producing "Should leave lots of clues so that we can do both"
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
It does make the idea of deprogramming one or more of them more appealing- if there's a way to do it, of course.
To be fair, the canon Sailor Senshi fell for a surprising number of schemes...
And well, it might explain some of the ludicrous subtlety of a brick methods...
Lunaryon
Dual Aurora Wave
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Alright, so I have added Luna's upgraded Spymaster trait (Every week there is a cumulative 5% chance of starting to upgrade one of her positive traits) which after thinking about it made a similar change to Ami's (Every week there is a cumulative 5% chance of starting to upgrade Awakened Magic)
as well as threw up Makoto's sheet because really, there is no chance of Makoto ending up anywhere else with that lead.
as well as threw up Makoto's sheet because really, there is no chance of Makoto ending up anywhere else with that lead.
Vote closed
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- Mid-Atlantic
It'd also explain why Beryl is so quick to execute the dark generals for serious failures. She knows she brainwashed them. She knows brainwashing is kind of a crapshoot if you leave the victim with enough of their mind intact to be a functional independent decision-maker. And she knows she's done exactly that with the Dark Generals.
So whenever they start screwing up consistently, or screwing up something important, she has legitimate reason to ask herself "is it finally time to put this one down because the brainwashing is starting to unravel?"
It may also explain why she encourages internecine rivalry among the generals; as long as they're vying for her favor it's a sign that they still give a damn about the priorities she brainwashed into them.
[Of course, it also provides any of them who REALLY turns their coat a lot of plausible deniability to undermine the Dark Kingdom's plans, but then, I never accused Beryl of being a legendary genius either]
I continue to be flattered by your willingness to use my screwball ideas for naming things.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
@Lunaryon
By the way, uh... since we're probably going to end up in a fight soon, I wanted to check, will we be getting the benefits of Makoto's Trainer bonus to effective Martial and correspondingly Prowess in this particular interlude?
(sorry for the doublepost, but I'm still unsure whether editing a username tag into a post actually works as a way of getting their attention?)
By the way, uh... since we're probably going to end up in a fight soon, I wanted to check, will we be getting the benefits of Makoto's Trainer bonus to effective Martial and correspondingly Prowess in this particular interlude?
(sorry for the doublepost, but I'm still unsure whether editing a username tag into a post actually works as a way of getting their attention?)
Bit off the wall, but smol Rei is adorable and something I never knew I needed in my life.
Lunaryon
Dual Aurora Wave
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yeah, you will.
I think they've finally managed to get it so that editing in the mention works now, but I'm not sure.
Additionally, I had a stupid thought that works, so since you can put Tabs into Tables, I've added everyone's sailor outfits onto their character sheets!
Oh, and finally, since the vote closed and I didn't even notice-
to start with - I need:
d10 + 12 for Notice DC 23
d10 + 11 for Notice DC 23
d10 + 18 for Notice DC 23
Then we need
d10 + 18 for Usa Round 1
d10 + 18 for Usa Round 2
d10 + 20 for Usa Round 3
d10 + 13 for Ami round 1
d10 + 13 for Ami round 2
d10 + 13 for Ami round 3
d10 + 36 for Mako Round 1
d10 + 35 for Mako Round 2
d10 + 35 for Mako Round 3
Next a d3 for Interuppt
and a d10 +21 for Tuxedo
I think they've finally managed to get it so that editing in the mention works now, but I'm not sure.
Additionally, I had a stupid thought that works, so since you can put Tabs into Tables, I've added everyone's sailor outfits onto their character sheets!
Oh, and finally, since the vote closed and I didn't even notice-
to start with - I need:
d10 + 12 for Notice DC 23
d10 + 11 for Notice DC 23
d10 + 18 for Notice DC 23
Then we need
d10 + 18 for Usa Round 1
d10 + 18 for Usa Round 2
d10 + 20 for Usa Round 3
d10 + 13 for Ami round 1
d10 + 13 for Ami round 2
d10 + 13 for Ami round 3
d10 + 36 for Mako Round 1
d10 + 35 for Mako Round 2
d10 + 35 for Mako Round 3
Next a d3 for Interuppt
and a d10 +21 for Tuxedo
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- ferreries
I'll roll this one. Pointless as it may be.