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Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)

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[X][Brek] Get breakfast with Kenji
Hopefully we can help ease his mind.
For some reason the name of the doctor seems important, not sure why. Is it a reference that I can't quite place?
 
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Lunaryon said:
Slipping out the window, Sailor Moon clings to the side of the building for a moment, slowing sliding the window closed, before she kicks off the wall, soaring up into the air, and across the road towards the rooftop of the building a block over.
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I begin to think she enjoys roof-hopping a bit too much. At least leave the room via teleport. Don't want Naru having to answer awkward questions about strange women climbing out of her window.

[X][Brek] Get breakfast with Kenji
At this point search rolls are not a significant concern. We really need to tell the family what is going on. Preferably after the company is setup but that isn't critical.
 
[X][Brek] Get breakfast with Kenji

Obvious choice of character interaction and a bonus versus a nothing burger is obvious. We're going to be transitioning to being more open soon anyway.
 
[X][Brek] Get breakfast with Kenji

I wonder if that "recently approved medicine" is actually magical? I imagine magical healing is something the government would start quietly looking for once they knew magic existed.
 
EnderofWorlds said:
Honestly? It makes the most sense; post-Fall and given the complete obliteration of all life in the sector, why not have it so that Post-Fall life is just innately magic-disinclined by virtue of spiritual PTSD of the world itself leading to the re-genisis of life leaning towards avoiding magic as a whole. Then when the more magically adept SM reincarnations start comining in, those that end up reclaiming magic go fuck off to do their own thing while the magically disinclined work to keep them in their bubble because fuck that noise we ain't having none of that shit here.
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I don't really see it, simply because we've got too much engagement with the magical side already and that's part of the fun. I don't think it's desirable or good to put "hardened bulletproof eternal enforced masquerade" into the quest, not least because it requires more, and heavier enforcement, which just raises more of the same questions that @Angelform keeps treating as so important and such a flaw in the way we're already doing things.

QTesseract said:
I'm going to echo the thoughts that I think it works as is. You've given enough information to make a broad world, and not gotten bogged down in making sure minutae are explained, which is perfectl fine. Like, yes, in real life, things happen for a reason, but that reason isn't always apparent. Say what you will about the militarism and the secret alliances and nationalism making something like the great war ineveitable, it certainly wasn't perceived so at the time! Frankly, if we knew as little about RL!historical politics as we do about the historical politics of this quest, the current state of the world wouldn't make any more sense. I'm interested in learning more, but "I don't understand how this came about when I have no information about how this came about" =/= "this is incoherent."
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Oh God so much this.

@Lunaryon . Listen to this railgun. Their advice is good.

Faraway-R said:
Now see here. You do not maintain the Masquerade by careful research and use of the minimum force required.

You maintain the Masquerade by aggressively punishing any attempts to breach it, followed by researching the culprits and developing ways to deal with them decisively on repeat offense.

You also don't use minimum required force unless minimizing the use of force is actually warranted - instead you ensure that any battles you get to pick are performed without witnesses, be it by assaulting the enemy bases in out-of-the-way places, be it by picking fights at times where witnesses are unlikely to be around, or by isolating/evacuating the operational area under plausible excuses.

Furthermore, you don't forget the lessons of your precursors - which in this case includes Demon Hunters and Mikos of Japan.

Sango for example uses demonbone-made weapons, poison, and is actually just about a credible parallel to one of Ranma's martial artists, the actually skilled kind. Kagome makes do with a bow and arrows - charged up with inimical (Holy) energies so much it isn't funny.
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Brilliantly reasoned, so let me ask you a loaded question:

Exactly how many "Sangos" and "Kagomes" (I speak metaphorically) do you think the 'magical government' actually has?

If they are sitting on a squad of expert demon hunters anywhere near as formidable as, say, Team Inuyasha, then absolutely, you're right! What if their typical foot soldier is more at Kimiko's level, with a handful of archmages who have respectable amounts of power but don't get into fights with it very often and so tend to be better in a support role?

At that point, charging in going all "DYNAMIC ENTRY!" on supernatural threats becomes downright reckless. First, because of the risk of losing hard-to-replace magical foot soldiers (or even specialist mages) from being underprepared. Second, because you're at risk of drawing the same kind of attention to yourselves that the Sailor Scouts do.

Remember that institutions undergo evolution over time. It's easier to recruit badass Prowess 25-30 magic demon hunters generously tooled up with magical equipment in a society where magic is relatively common; as magic fades from public awareness, so too do the tools you'd use to fight enemy magic. On the other hand, as your institution ages, it will gradually gain more information and experience about "doing more with less."

Fast-forward to the 1990s and it seems reasonable to think that the 'Magical Government' of Japan is very accustomed to acting subtly, doing more with less, and with making sure it understands its targets' weaknesses before gambling against them.

Which of the two are more likely to know the origins of KoO? The Outer Senshi, whose very role is to fend off extrasolar threats and who are probably specifically geared towards indentifying threats as such?

Or Sailor Venus and mage orders whose interest lies less in the identification of origins and more in capabilities of their enemies?
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See, I'd say "the Outer Senshi," except that we know for a fact that they've got approximately two months of sporadic on-the-job training to their names. :p

More seriously, it sounds like MI5's magical assets (I am just thanking our lucky stars they're not the Laundry) are to the point of actually being able to launch offensive countermoves that are meaningfully keeping the Knights of Oblivion off-balance much of the time. This suggests that they must have some significant amount of accurate, actionable information on the Knights. Which would be very surprising if they are deeply ignorant of the Knights' nature and purpose.

With that said, it's certainly plausible that the "they're both right" scenario you describe is in place- that the Knights really are extrasolar or working on behalf of an extrasolar entity, and that the entity in question was sealed by King Solomon.
 
Nuew said:
uhhh... guys I think she might have been serious when she cursed us last time
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I'm delighted that @Lunaryon took this and ran with it.

I should note that in the Operation Slumber Party omakes, authorial headcanon is that Naru was bluffing with that 'spell' during the game of Life the girls were playing. She conjured up a little flash of light (as per the Light cantrip she has) while uttering a few vaguely applicable words in old Elysian to add credibility. She's not a very good liar, but then, Usagi isn't very good at spotting a lie.

Chibi-Usa being born with pink hair at some indefinite point in the future was, in my mind, a coincidence.

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But hell, for all I know there really is a spell somewhere in the margins of that Elysian-language spellbook Naru's been using, or dredged up from somewhere else in her memory, that can pre-set the hair color of a woman's firstborn. :p
 
Simon_Jester said:
I'm delighted that @Lunaryon took this and ran with it.

I should note that in the Operation Slumber Party omakes, authorial headcanon is that Naru was bluffing with that 'spell' during the game of Life the girls were playing. She conjured up a little flash of light (as per the Light cantrip she has) while uttering a few vaguely applicable words in old Elysian to add credibility. She's not a very good liar, but then, Usagi isn't very good at spotting a lie.

Chibi-Usa being born with pink hair at some indefinite point in the future was, in my mind, a coincidence.

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But hell, for all I know there really is a spell somewhere in the margins of that Elysian-language spellbook Naru's been using, or dredged up from somewhere else in her memory, that can pre-set the hair color of a woman's firstborn. :p
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I'mma split the difference and say that while there is such a spell, she can't cast it . . .
. . .yet.
 
As a tentative question, in the event that Jadeite is encountered again before the Moon Stick is found, which is proving to be a tedious and aggravating task, might it be possible to have Naru transfer the Crystal Rod for that one occasion so that Moon can cast the [Planetary] Healing Escalation? Moon's version could help in regards to Jadeite, whereas Naru's version... may be unlikely to do so.
 
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