Alright,
@Valmond,
@Chaosmancer, you have, in my opinion at least, now killed yet another topic. Please stop. Yes, both of you have valid points. No, I do not want to spend the next three days watching this continually escalate until the original topic is lost to the ages in yet another pointless flame war. And please none of the last post sniping where you seem to think you're graciously dropping the topic, but want to send of just a few more paragraphs of argument, or had a post half written and 'don't want to waste it'. It's incredibly rude.
I was pretty much done. I didn't intend to "kill" anything. I was just trying to explain my point. I'm sorry you feel like it was becoming some sort of flame war.
Lunaryon just teased a picture of Venus' Castle. What kinds of fallout might there be from some space probes getting photos of it? Will people associate it with the weird stuff going on in the world, get excited about aliens, wonder how in the world a city-sized castle avoided notice this long? Might other spaceborne relics start popping out of their hiding places as the Senshi continue to grow and poke things?
Well, just as likely the Moon Castle is going to catch people's eyes, but proof of structures in space? Of course some people are going to start saying Aliens started magic or that magic isn't real and it is all sci-fi technology. But a City-Sized castle avoiding notice isn't actually that that impressive if you stop and think about it.
Here is a picture of Earth. How easy is it to spot New York City? Or Rio de Janeiro? Or ANY city
We are used to thinking of Cities as Big, but once you go Planetary... they are very small. Combine that with the trickiness of Venus being harder to look at without looking at the Sun, and the fact that the Castle until recently was dark, and it isn't too surprising to us.
Naru just had a big thing happen because she kept a promise. What kind of effects might that have on her deific maturation process? She should definitely tell her mom at least some of this soon, but should she dump it all at once, or just start with 'Usagi's friendgroup (which I am a part of), is secretly a witch coven.'?
I'm still not sure why people are treating Naru like a Goddess. It's innaccurate because she is the being that creates Genus Loci, not one herself. She isn't maturing as a Deity, she is maturing as the All-Mother. We are just assuming that Deity is "sort of close enough" when talking to people like Ame-no-Mizumi because we didn't want to tell her we are the All-Mother.
As for the effects on her body... I've got no idea. Her blood somehow becoming more powerful is possible, but I'm far more interested in how this effects her "social circle" in that I'm thinking she is going to be more likely to gain Yokai followers.
As for her mom... I think she has to tell her most everything. The physical changes are going to start becoming noticeable, there is a high likelihood of Yokai trying to seek her out, and frankly the stuff with Usagi is a lot more "turns out Usagi is secretly some sort of magical person, she's been helping me deal with all this as best we can, so you didn't need to worry". We don't really need to go into detail on more than that, because Mama Osaka knows that Usagi would of course do anything she could to help Naru.
We've got Alice backing us, which may well be step one in achieving a higher level of organization and deployment. Where might we find other capable managers for what is likely to be an organization that grows into a full-on nation?
Honestly? We might just need to train people into the position to a degree. You can't exactly hire the types of people who can make these sorts of transitions.
What should we have be the official species name for Naru's crystal-crab hairpins?
Silicates
Trilium
Cry-Spiders
Petropians
I can come up with a few more, but that seems a good seed.
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Grand total of 7 Points to spend:
Huh... hidden option? OH! The shattered remnants of the Guardian dogs.... yeah, I want that.
[ ][Loot] Shattered Stone Shishi Statue
-- To be entirely honest, MCAT doesn't have the slightest idea why you might want this...[COSTS 0]
The Rest of this... I'm cutting a few things out as I go, I'll explain thoughts once I figure out what I want.
Edit: UGH, okay, this is getting more complicated. Too many thoughts in too many directions. I do have a question for
@Lunaryon which I also realize might be answered, but I want to make my initial decisions without reading other opinions. Does anything we don't take go to MCAT?
Because the Diesel Armor is actually something I'd much prefer to GO to MCAT for them to study, rather than us have it.
Other than that, my main thoughts right now are usefulness. Specifically, what is useful for the Crystal Millenium instead of what is useful for the Senshi. To that end... I'm putting forth two plans. Then I'll read the next few pages and respond to people, which should not lead to a double post.
[X] Plan: Equip the Company
- [X][Loot] Shattered Stone Shishi Statue
- [X][Loot] Tanto
- [X][Loot] Archon Staff
- [X][Loot] Staff of Resistance
- [X][Loot] A few random magical books
- [X][Loot] Faust's Reagents
This 7 point plan focuses on the things we can use for the Company and the school. The Shishi statue is useful for figuring out how to make our own guardians. Or we can just repair it via Moon. The Tanto and Staff of Resistance are basically magical tasers, and can be useful to hand to the staff at the building so they can use them. The Archon Staff and Books make for good study materials, and then the Reagents are potentially useful for us or the school. This means we have to give up the Chicken house though. Which leads to....
[X] Plan: No, seriously, we NEED a Chicken House
- [X][Loot] Shattered Stone Shishi Statue
- [X][Loot] The Devil Demesne
- [X][Loot] A few random magical books
- [X][Loot] Archon Staff
This gives us the Chicken house, but we keep the books (total 6 points). The Shishi statue is free so that's good. The Archon staff then can pull double duty. Teaching tool and defensive weapon for the building, since it can summon water and be used non-lethally.
Also, in case this ends up being Approval voting instead of plan voting.
[X][Loot] Shattered Stone Shishi Statue
[X][Loot] Tanto
[X][Loot] Archon Staff
[X][Loot] Staff of Resistance
[X][Loot] A few random magical books
[X][Loot] Faust's Reagents
[X][Loot] The Devil Demesne
Also, Jadeite should take the Lord's Sword as a Trophy (he is the one who beat him) and we should offer to repair the armor, if MCAT wants.
