Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
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Oh.
Oh dear.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. The Disguise Pen gives you the knowledge and in some cases, as I understand it, the confidence or mental traits of the target. You become whoever it is you're disguised as, or as close as makes very, very little difference.
And with that particular choice of a 'disguise...' it would be very, very easy for Usagi to lose herself.
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Well,Usagi Serenity actually succeeding in teleporting to the moon would be a disaster of the first order. Running out into the street, yes, @MrPremise , is a Very Bad Idea, since she doesn't know to watch out for cars and doesn't have transformed durability to survive getting hit by one.
On the other hand, if she literally heads for the hills, her friends are going to have the devil's own time tracking her down in a timely manner.
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On the other hand, Princess Jupiter as an "ara ara" type, confirmed!
And probably in the transformed state, where their identity can be confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt.
I don't envyUsagi Serenity when someone catches up with her and explains what happens.
Oh dear.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. The Disguise Pen gives you the knowledge and in some cases, as I understand it, the confidence or mental traits of the target. You become whoever it is you're disguised as, or as close as makes very, very little difference.
And with that particular choice of a 'disguise...' it would be very, very easy for Usagi to lose herself.
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Well,
On the other hand, if she literally heads for the hills, her friends are going to have the devil's own time tracking her down in a timely manner.
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On the other hand, Princess Jupiter as an "ara ara" type, confirmed!
Once Luna figured out that the 'disguise' worked too well and what the hell just happened, yes.
And probably in the transformed state, where their identity can be confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt.
I don't envy
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- Wingmaiden's Reach, the Near Roofs, Town
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- She/Her
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Having been kidnapped by some strange imposters - their disguises are good, but they obviously did no research at all into the mannerisms of the guardians they are impersonating - and spirited away to Earth, priority number one should be to escape whatever nefarious trap we find ourselves in.
whatever these ... these criminals have done to cut us off from the Nav Beacons must be a local effect - what, are we supposed to believe that Earth was somehow conquered right under our nose?
Hiding is behavior unbecoming a princess, and there will be time for resting in a proper park later, once we've escaped.
Having been kidnapped by some strange imposters - their disguises are good, but they obviously did no research at all into the mannerisms of the guardians they are impersonating - and spirited away to Earth, priority number one should be to escape whatever nefarious trap we find ourselves in.
whatever these ... these criminals have done to cut us off from the Nav Beacons must be a local effect - what, are we supposed to believe that Earth was somehow conquered right under our nose?
Hiding is behavior unbecoming a princess, and there will be time for resting in a proper park later, once we've escaped.
The original japanese is "Ruin and Birth" rather then "Death and Rebirth".
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- He/Him
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I know that this is probably OOC for Serenity, but it makes too much sense for me to not go for it. (Maybe Usagi pokes her head back out?)
I know that this is probably OOC for Serenity, but it makes too much sense for me to not go for it. (Maybe Usagi pokes her head back out?)
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Just going to say what I assume each vote is from the description, in case people don't get it:
Not making the news is good, since we don't want a partially-amnesiac princess with no earth language skills to be our first impression to the public.
If we make the news as full-on Princess Serenity, straight out of the Silver Millenium, our friends will know where to find us, and Tuxedo will come running as soon as he sees us... but so will any youma under Jadeite, since we know he knows how news works due to the radio scheme. That would be a good way to start a full-on brawl in the streets with a multi-way fight between youma, Tuxedo, the inner senshi, and possibly the outer senshi mixed in. And we wouldn't be transformed, know what's going on, or have fighting experience. Bad idea.
Edit: Yes, it makes sense for us to meta-game this. Usagi's subconscious still probably knows what's happening, after all. It makes sense for us to make decisions based on a subconscious impulse to stay hidden.
Walking into the street, good way to get hit by a car. Will likely make the news.
Alleyway. Good way to hide until either this wears off or backup comes. Might get mugged.
Park? May or may not make the news. Will probably run into people who don't speak the same language. Chaos likely.
Climbing a skyscraper. Depending on how we try to do this, will almost definitely make the news. Will make a scene. Will run into people who don't currently share a language with us, unless we try to climb the outside, and then we have bigger problems.
Not making the news is good, since we don't want a partially-amnesiac princess with no earth language skills to be our first impression to the public.
If we make the news as full-on Princess Serenity, straight out of the Silver Millenium, our friends will know where to find us, and Tuxedo will come running as soon as he sees us... but so will any youma under Jadeite, since we know he knows how news works due to the radio scheme. That would be a good way to start a full-on brawl in the streets with a multi-way fight between youma, Tuxedo, the inner senshi, and possibly the outer senshi mixed in. And we wouldn't be transformed, know what's going on, or have fighting experience. Bad idea.
Edit: Yes, it makes sense for us to meta-game this. Usagi's subconscious still probably knows what's happening, after all. It makes sense for us to make decisions based on a subconscious impulse to stay hidden.
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FictionPack
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Look, all I know is that if
If you like, chalk it up as Usagi being a voice in Serenity's subconscious shouting that her 'captors' aren't actually enemies, leaving her in a confused state where the immediate desire for relief of an uncomfortable physical experience (it's too bright!) overrides her long-term planning.
It's an open question to me to what extent this is Serenity confused and not knowing what's going on, and to what extent it's Usagi thinking she's Serenity and functionally amnesiac about the details of her own life.
As has been established, Tux boy doesn't watch the news.
I vaguely remember it being a thing that, due to childhood trauma, Mamoru/Damien and his past self developed a split personality sort of thing. Mamoru/Damien has exactly zero memory or knowledge of being Tuxedo Mask and vice versa.
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- Wingmaiden's Reach, the Near Roofs, Town
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- She/Her
- Serenity's emergency teleport failed, due to a lack of power and no beacon to lock onto. She's assuming that there's a jamming effect stopping her from reaching the moon's Nav Points. This is false. She can't find the Nav Points because they no longer exist.
- I fail to see how any of the alternatives make the slightest sense for Serenity in this situation. She has been kidnapped and spirited away to another planet. She already tried an emergency teleport, and it was jammed. This group, despite their ...inconsistent preparations, clearly has some powerful magic at their disposal. They are impersonating her guards, presumably as some sort of gaslighting attempt.
What the hell is she supposed to do other than try and gtfo? Hide, in an unknown place from a group with unknown capabilities? Flee for the hills and ... what, hide there? - If a QM includes an option that is literally suicidal without rhyme or reason or purpose - like, just for funsies, I guess? As a trap in a slate of otherwise ordinary options - they're a shit QM. @Lunaryon hasn't given me any reason to assume that she's a shit QM.
We're not playing Paranoia. @Lunaryon is not a Killer DM. Rocks are not going to fall.
There very well may be fallout - @bengalqueen raises some serious concerns about attention - but do you genuinely believe that Lunaryon is going to end the quest, just, "oh no, Usagi's dead, woops!" here?
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Huh. I was assuming that seeing a full-on Princess Serenity, straight down to the dress, would cause him to immediately transform and come looking for us. That just makes not making the news more important, since it reduces the amount of allies coming to us, while the youma are still going to come after us once they know that the moon princess is out in the open and undefended.
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[X][Moon] Head to the right towards the tower so that you can reach the moon
It will be interesting to see what comes of it. Change and unpredictability and new possibilities unwinding as a result.
It will be interesting to see what comes of it. Change and unpredictability and new possibilities unwinding as a result.
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Lunaryon
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Ah, I have finally figured out a way to say this that doesn't give away too much information about the option of walking onto the black stone.
Right now, you are playing as Serenity, who has 38 Prowess, even though she has never even balled a fist to hit someone in her life.
Right now, you are playing as Serenity, who has 38 Prowess, even though she has never even balled a fist to hit someone in her life.
You know, back when I started reading Divided Loyalties I thought Mathilde had a packed schedule compared to most Crusading Kings. She has nothing on Usagi.
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Oh? Very interesting.
Either the black stone or the tower, then, I think, whichever one is bound to give the more interesting encounters.
Either the black stone or the tower, then, I think, whichever one is bound to give the more interesting encounters.
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...Yeah, this changes things. Not going to change my vote, though. I kind of want to get mugged in an alley now, just for the schadenfreude. There's nothing quite like laughing at some poor fool that tried to attack the wrong target. And unlike some poor guy who got his car wrecked because a confused superhero walked into the road, the mugger would deserve it.
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Honestly, the intelligence isn't going to help Ami and may make things worse. Concepts that are seamlessly obvious to her will repeatedly not be obvious to Usagi, and importantly, Ami won't be able to predict which ones are going to be non-obvious, without judgment and experience.
If Ami's effective at tutoring Usagi in math, it's not because she's got brains. It's because she's got skills.
Then you'd lose the beautiful, memorable shots of the Moon Kingdom's palace there with Earth hanging in the background. Not worth it.
More generally, the Moon Kingdom was a whole civilization; it wouldn't just be located in one place. To make the ruins invisible, you'd need to destroy that civilization thoroughly enough that not only would no large scale structures visible from Earth-based telescopes survived, but that the Apollo astronauts in tight, low lunar orbits wouldn't see anything that looked suspicious.
Sailor Saturn nuking everything
I suppose it depends on whether we're playing
a) "The reincarnated Princess Serenity, in full command of her faculties and fully rational but totally unaware of what's happened since shortly before the fall of the Silver Millennium," which seems to be your preferred approach, or...
b) "Usagi, suddenly infused with Princess Serenity's memories by the Disguise Pen, and by her inexperience with the Pen, so strongly infused that they overwhelm her own self-awareness. Usagi starts using the princess's skills and acting on beliefs about the world informed by Serenity's experience, while still, on some level, being Usagi."
The difference between the two may be academic, but I think it's relevant here because it determines whether Usagi/Serenity is a skillful operative striving to break contact with kidnappers and escape in a focused, disciplined manner... or a confused (and superpowered) individual who's as like as not to blindly run out into the street because she's transported to a world where nothing is the way she remembers it and she's feeling a surge of paranoia.
Think of Captain America at the end of The First Avenger- realizing that the hospital room he wakes up in is a fraud and just running out of the building. Only he doesn't just keep running and fighting off all pursuers, in that scene, as I recall- he more or less collapses in confusion at realizing that the world he occupies is a different-but-familiar-but-different one.
I don't think that "go to the top of the tower" is an option that will automatically end the quest by killing Usagi. I do think that there is some risk that if she succeeds in getting to the top of the tower, and if her magic is potent enough (it wouldn't do to underestimate her, either) that she could actually succeed in teleporting to the moon.
The fact that she's thinking of climbing a tower to get there suggests that she has a plan, and if the plan is just "escape the immediate zone of effect of whatever's jamming my perception of the nav beacons," then running out to the hills might well be more effective. Because jamming is likely to be a spherical or at least volumetric effect. It would be more likely to extend to the top of a short (~100 or 200 meter) tower than several kilometers out into the wilderness or a distant civic park. I'm pretty sure she wants to climb the tower because she wants an unobstructed line of sight.
It's entirely conceivable to me that Princess Serenity doesn't actually need the nav beacons to teleport to the moon; she just needs them to do it in a hurry when casting an emergency teleport (note that she popped into the ether first then tried to home in on a beacon second). If she can literally see the moon from where she's standing, it's entirely possible (to me) that she could set up a 'blind' teleport without benefit of beacons. It might take a while, giving her friends time to catch up with her... but then again, she might succeed.
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I see it like this.
If Usagi is exposed to IC risk, it is conceivable that she might die. If we vote to expose Usagi to risk, it seems likely that in-quest she could get killed if the dice are prodigiously bad and all the forces in play that might save her somehow fail.
We know going out into the street is a risk, because getting hit by a truck is predictably dangerous. If Usagi/Serenity got hit by a truck, she could, conceivably, be killed (Prowess 38 notwithstanding, the possibility exists). The existence of such a risk wouldn't make @Lunaryon a bad QM.
Well, teleporting to a lifeless rock in hard vacuum is also predictably lethal (maybe- Princess Serenity might actually have enough magic to survive that, but it'd be a very perilous position!). And while it might be unlikely, or even impossible, that Usagi/Serenity would actually succeed in reaching the moon under her own power, it can't be ruled out, any more than "get hit by a truck" can be ruled out if she runs into the street, or "get mugged" can be ruled out if she runs into an alleyway.
Ahhh, so she does have Sailor Moon's durability, or better. Presumably defensive warding, bioenhancement magic, or something like that.
A good point.
And yeah, if she gets hit by a truck, I feel sorry for that driver. Because probably the worst immediate (non-Attention) consequences are "so much the worse for truck-kun, I'm already a reincarnated girl stranded in a low-tech world with no means of returning to my home realm, you can't isekai what's already isekai'd."
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