[X] Plan Foundations without a House But With A Statue
-[X][Loot] Shattered Stone Shishi Statue
-[X][Loot] A few random magical books
-[X][Loot] Faust's Reagents
-[X][Loot] A favor
I 100% agree.
I'd just like to have copies of any papers there are.
Though as i am not planning on a huge campaign to systematically take down IMO (we are kinda busy, and MCAT does have our phone number if they need help), it is not a huge deal if we don't.
Caveats:
1) Just copying the papers could be a big pain in the butt.
2) Many of the most interesting papers may actually be old documents that can't be quickly and easily fed through a photocopier.
3) A huge percentage of the documentation will be irrelevant to our purposes and we don't really have the manpower to figure out which bits are and are not relevant, whereas MCAT can do so easily.
This is one of those areas where we are still
firmly street-level, and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future: the organizational manpower it takes to process and collate very large amounts of information
Actually given that Castle Magellan has a radius of like 10 miles at the widest point and more importantly is in orbit you wouldn't actually need a space probe to get a look at it. Hell, you should be able to use a telescope as small as 20 inches which is at the high end of the hobbyist range to catch a glimpse of when the planets are near each other.
Yeah, which is why I'm pretty sure it was invisible until recently.
Also, just because you can
spot it through a telescope ("Wait, Venus has a moon now!?") doesn't mean the world won't be freaking out and turning instruments and probes on it in hopes of figuring out WTF just happened.
That in turn raises the question of how badly NASA is panicking if Venus raised the castle after awakening though if it has always been there it probably was discovered by someone between the early 1600s and late 1800s.
Also this.
[][Loot] Shattered Stone Shishi Statue + 1 Lunar Healing Burst = New deterrent to vandals.
-- To be entirely honest, MCAT doesn't have the slightest idea why you might want this...[COSTS 0]
I will note that the statue is, by definition, not an
inanimate object. When MCAT's troopers smashed the thing up in a hail of lightly-enchanted gunfire, they may well have done something to it that a simple Lunar Healing Burst can't fix.
On the other hand, that doesn't mean
Naru can't fix it, given that her predecessor's first act as Mother of Monsters was to turn a dead wolf into a live wolf-spirit-thing.
I would not call the house a safe bet just yet, wether we do this in plan format or otherwise.
Because, while i am all in on the house, i have to admit that the security concern is not non existent.
Also, we don't really have a good plan for where to put the thing.
It's too big to store in our headquarters, in that it won't fit in through the doors.
It's too big to store
on our headquarters. Given that it took 5-7 Sailor Senshi just to
lift the thing, it's probably heavy enough to collapse the roof if we park it up there.
We have no experience trying to teleport anything more massive than, say, a few hundred kilograms of magical girls in a single jump, so it may or may not be possible to move it to a remote location where it won't be noticed.
Come to think of it, we don't
have a remote location where it won't be noticed and where we or anyone we know even vaguely could reliably keep an eye on it. The shrine grounds really aren't big enough for something this large to escape notice- I'm suspect every point on the grounds is somewhere well within the line of sight of a nearby tall building, because it's a shrine
in Tokyo. Someone would notice a whole house appearing there overnight.
The woods outside the Splash Star Pretty Cures' stomping grounds are still a battleground and we don't know when that will change. The woods outside Kibougahana are
definitely not a good place to stash this thing. We could pick an arbitrary remote location like "somewhere on top of Mount Fuji" and hope for the best (Sailor Moon can teleport pretty much anywhere she wants), but honestly, if we're unwilling to prevail upon the goodwill of a literal government to give us a place to park this thing, we have a problem trying to work out what to do with it.
Devil Demense is basically a tank / armored troop carrier. It's a 70+ prowess combatant right now. And, from Faust's dialog, the "real one" is much stronger, likely at prowess >100. It can likely be upgraded via application of Naru;s blood and senshi magic. Having a mobile rapid deployment base would be invaluable. We really, really should get it. Yes, it's an investment, but it's a huge opportunity. And we have teleportation. This would allow for storming Dark Kingdom bases and operating in Pretty Cure dimensions on a whole new level. Basically, anywhere that's not urban combat that thing would be king.
It should be noted that the actual Senshi are themselves highly mobile overland, running at speeds of 150 km/h or more. I'm not sure we
need a "base" to deploy from in most situations. Tanks don't need APCs to ride inside of.
But that's a detail.
While thinking on loot, I'm pondering on the Remedies and wondering, what happened to Vicky? She isn't with Elina and Emma here, nor does she seem to have become a Spellblade like Lucy. If she's still around, it feels a bit sad that she's probably the only one of the four with no magic, assuming she wants it.
Victoria is happily engaged to a man who sounds nice and is studying engineering at a college in Minako forgets where, somewhere in the north half of England.
Minako's met her; she's come down to visit Emma and Elina twice in the past six months.
If Vicky decides she
pressingly wants her magic re-awakened, well... two of her best friends' neighbor's best friend is Sailor Moon, so she's starting from a more advantageous position than most people on the planet.