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Lieutenant Arisukawa Haruna

Balance Stats
❁ • Work / Life • ❁
❁ • ❁ Warrior / Princess ❁ • ❁
❁ • ❁ Radical / Respectable ❁ • ❁


Tactical Stats
Gunnery 0, Navigation +2, Command +2, Technology -4, Personal -2, Strategy +3

Stress: 3


PLEASE READ THE QUEST RULES BELOW

You collectively vote on the actions of Arisukawa Haruna, the first woman to serve openly in the Imperial Akitsukuni Navy.

This quest is set in a universe which is much like our own circa 1910, but with different politics, cultural norms, and ideas about gender and sexuality, as well as some unusual and advanced technology in places.

We are using this quest to explore themes like breaking the glass ceiling, divergent outlooks on gender and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, and the place of royalty.

Content Warning
This quest goes some dark places.

There is violence, often explicit, often unfair, often against undeserving targets.

There are not always good options forward. The protagonist is not necessarily a good person.

There is implied content and discussion of sexual harassment and assault.

This is a world where people are often racist, sexist, queerphobic bigots. Sometimes, even the PC and the people they are friends with.

Voting Rules

We will tell you if write-in votes are allowed. If we do not say that write-ins are allowed, they are not. This is to prevent people from unrealistically hedging their bets.

You may proposal other options in a non-vote format, subject to approval, on non write-in votes.

We will tell you when a vote allows approved voting. If we don't say the answer is no, pick an option. We like making people commit.

Discussions makes the GM feel fuzzy.

Game Rules
When we ask you for a roll, roll 3d6. You are aiming to roll equal or under the value of your stat. If you succeed, Haruna gets through the situation with no real difficulties. If you roll above the target value, Haruna will still succeed, but this success will cost her something or add a complication.

Whenever Haruna loses something or faces hardship from a botched roll, she takes Stress. The more Stress Haruna has, the more the job and the circumstances she's in will get to her, and it'll be reflected in the narrative. Haruna must be kept under 10 Stress: if she reaches 10 Stress, she will suffer a breakdown and the results will not be great for her.

Haruna loses stress by taking time for herself, by making meaningful progress on her dreams, and by kissing tall, beautiful women.

Meta Rules
Author commentary is in italics so you know it's not story stuff.

Please don't complain about the system or the fact we have to roll dice. We've heard it before, we've heard it a thousand times across multiple quests. We're not going to change it, and it wears at our fucking souls.

Just going "oh noooo" or "Fish RNGesus Why!" is fun and fine. Complaining at length because you didn't get what you want less so.

If you have a question, tag both @open_sketchbook and @Artificial Girl. If you only tag one of us, you will be ignored. Seriously, we both write this quest.

And yes this is an alt-history type setting with openly gay and trans people, ahistoric medicine, and weird politics. Just... deal, please?

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[x] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program

I personally would prefer the Telecommunications standardization paths (something I read the (civilian) mailing lists of for fun), or the anti-air gun mount committee (which is probably reasonably good for her career and her rants would be incredibly fun), but future sailor is critically important for women in the navy, especially since we didn't make as much progress on that here as we'd have liked to.

The yrick would be (as Eater said) does the committee matter? If so, does our opinion matter? Our selection for it probably would have been for the explicit purpose of addressing women in the navy, but that doesn't mean the rest of the committee will care about that, especially if we're horrifically unlucky and they're all Purity Club freaks.
 
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[x] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program

No better way for us to influence the future of women in the Navy tbh
 
[X] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program

Hmph. Interesting set of choices, but I'd say the people using the gadgets are more important than the equipment itself, and this is the one that impacts that.
 
[:p] The Bureau of Ordinance: Committee for the development of next-generation torpedoes that will never fail!
[X] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program
 
[X] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes

I'm ready.

Also think of how excited our gf will be when we ask her to explain how a mechanical computer works to us
 
[x] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes
 
[X] The Electronic Communication Modernization Commission; Committee for Standardization of Manual Telecommunications Equipment
 
[X] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes

Could be worse, she could be on the subcommittee for ship-based aircraft launch mechanisms
 
[X] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program

I have a feeling this will get political. Here's hoping Haruna can use her connections to do some good for future sailors.
 
[x] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes
 
[X] The Electronic Communication Modernization Commission; Committee for Standardization of Manual Telecommunications Equipment

I like this one because half our job would be running back to Aiko to double-check if the committee's notes are actually scientifically literate


[X] The Electronic Communication Modernization Commission; Committee for Standardization of Manual Telecommunications Equipment.

I agree with this. Watch as Aiko starts dropping all her Electronics books and notes on Haruna.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Eater on Mar 7, 2023 at 6:50 PM, finished with 31 posts and 24 votes.

Hot damn, three way tie
 
[X] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes
 
[X] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program

This one is very important, because if we're not involved, it's depressingly likely some pinhead is going to decide to shove lady sailors back in a box rather than actually, y'know, be naval officers.
 
[X] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes
 
[x] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program
 
[X] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program
 
Thanks for clearing that up. I don't know how navies work and assumed that a desk job such as these are way less prestigious than actually serving on a vessel.

It shows a couple things: that there are important people in the Navy who want to nurture your career, that you have a good head on your shoulders, and that you know how to work the military beaurucratic machine even if you're not actively part of someone's staff in any future postings. Plus it helps you make connections with other, more important people who might have your back in the future.
 
[x] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes
 
[x] The Naval Logistics Design & Procurement Board: Subcommittee on the 20th Century Future Sailor Program
 
[X] The Naval Ordnance Design & Procurement Board Subcommittee for Anti-Aircraft Ordnance: Commission for Consultation and Decisions Regarding New Mount for Anti-Aircraft Purposes
 
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