A Bro's Life (AGG-ish Anime Bro Quest)
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Looking at this...all things considered, when we do train our education. I say we focus on our mathematics.
It is the most likely to have something to help boost our AP, aka help us manage our time better.
Anyhow, time to do some analyzing!
1. Looks like orientation occurred off-screen.
2. Rajin...of course.
3. Looks like they do expect us to do academics not just martial arts which again does make sense. Athletes are expected to keep up grades as well.
Two Floor Dorm Building. I wonder how many building like this there are. Regardless, we should be able to meet our neighbors sooner or later.
1. So all of the brothers things can fit into three bags and two suitcases. Gotcha.
2. Guessing both of them get cards like that.
...well, this is definite confirmation that this school is for the rich.
1. One of the bags carries the stuff from the brothers parents. All things considered we OOC may want to look though that at some point. Unless we can be told about it right now? @LinkOnScepter
2. Their school uniform is actually normal.
Oh hey! Looks like everyone knows about us already. Figures, guess most of those attending must have known if each other's existences beforehand, except for us and any other scholarship students...
Getting Kaguya Sama vibes. Odd. Pure vs Impure? Nah, this isn't an elevator school, so probably not as severe.
All things considered... at least the brothers don't have to worry about trying to compete with the best of the best...just third best. Which probably, still hell.
1. 200 x 0.90 = 180 will in the future have powerful position.
2. 200 x 0.80 = 160 are heirs to corporations and political parties.
So what I am hearing is that...there is about 10% to 20% of students here that the brothers can more easily BEFRIEND!!! Around 20 to 40.
Of course. Have to fit the look.
You know, I kind of wonder if this is literal or metaphorical. Considering Hayato is the Dreamer. Probably not though. He just has latent empathy, and knows his brother well.
Hmm...suckers bet, we have to deal with overkill attempts to try and 'get us our of here.'
A GLORIOUS SPEECH THAT SHALL ECHO THROUGHOUT TIM-
Spoilsport.
1. At least he agreed with us. There is hope for him yet.
2. Huh...so our scholarship could be canceled the moment we receive disciplinary action. Right, we have to be careful on that front. This isn't the type of school where we can just go on random adventurers, and speeches.
1. Hmm...I wait in anticipation of which club he chooses.
2. Wait...since Yamato has Education Mathematics 35...does he have 3 AP instead of Hayato's 2 AP? If he plans to investigate all 3 thoroughly this week, then he must have the time. Mathematics does seem to be his highest skill.
1. Pride. Once again, nice to see Yamato is capable of having emotions.
2. Hayato as the big brother probably doesn't wan't to rely on Yamato the whole way through. Though we'll have to at the moment.
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LinkOnScepter
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You could us the Undying Mountain in mundane combat, but everyone would be able to tell that what you're using ain't a normal Martial Art. Any Normal person would simply think you're a Prodigy or really strong. If someone has a Partner or is in the Organization, however, they'd start asking questions and following you around.
If your plan is to keep your Partner and yourself hidden from them or don't want to reveal your moves too early, up mundane Martial Arts. That and...it's kind of hard to "Hold Back" when using the Supernatural Martial Arts. Could seriously hurt someone when you don't mean to if you use it.
....I really need to read back on my stuff before I just answer.
What's in the Update takes Precedent.
If you guys ever interact with your Parent's stuff, I'll fill out the Inventory with what's in it. And yeah, the brothers don't have much.
While you can lose your Scholarship if you get in trouble, it's a "Three Strikes" rule. You can get in trouble three times before you're at risk of losing your Scholarship. And, of course, you'll only get those Strikes if you get caught doing something bad.
Yamato has the actual makings of your typical Shounen Protag in him. It's just after Middle School things happened that forced his feelings into a dark hole. But they're still there, and if anyone has a chance of breaking them out it's you guys.
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Step 1: Don't do bad.
Step 2: If you do bad, don't get caught.
Step 3: If you get caught, make sure you either have an excuse or someone powerful to vouch for you and bail you out.
Our fists are fists that will dig through the dark hole!
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Here's the current tally. Gonna keep it for about 2 more Hours.
Gotcha. Hmm, we should probably upgrade Street Fighting in that case. We tagged it anyhow. And I very heavily doubt Hayato wants to accidentally kill someone, due to being too strong.
Gotcha. So it is more...
1. Unyielding Mountain Technique: Hayato (Bonus) + Yato (Bonus) = +10
- Hayato: 10 + 15 + 10 = 35 (Limit Reached) - (Resistance Skills Are Physical: 0, Mental: 0, and Spiritual: 15)
- Yato: 50 + 25 = 75. - (Not Sure If Limit Applies To Monsters) - (Resistance Skills Are Physical: 50, Mental: 40, and Spiritual: 50.)
- Hayato: 0 + 15 + 2 = 17.
- Yato: 0 + 10 + # = 10 (?)
1. Understood. We'll have to figure out how to do that at some point then.
2. Sounds about right. They are apparently without external support.
3. Three Times. Got it. We'll have to be rule abiding...hmm, actually I can see that. Hayato did work construction. He is despite everything responsible enough to rent an apartment so the two could live together, and deal with whatever that entailed.
4. I see...let us awaken the will inside of him. Let us awaken his Inner Protagonist!!!
...Well that and actually ask him about what happened, since we don't seem to have.
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BTW, a +2 training bonus doesn't actually mean +2 to the skill. It means the bonus is an additional +10 to the skill per AP.
(Say you train Empathy: Feelings with a +2 training bonus. Means you train it at 20 per AP.)
So, our class gives us +1 to training Empathy, Martial Arts, and Supernatural and -1 to training Education, Culture, and Firearms. If we train with someone else, we benefit from their own class bonuses, which stack with whatever we have, unless if there's a malus, in which case their bonus just means we train that skill at the normal rate instead.
Our SL with Yamato gives us +3 to training Education, +2 to Tactics:Cleverness, and +1 to Barter: Business. This is independent of bonuses we'd get from training directly with Yamato.
Means that we train Education at a net of +3-1 = +2, so 20 per AP. Pretty good.
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Or we have, but he either refused to answer or deflected, since we do know that something happened after middle school. Unless that is not actually IC knowledge.
QM disagrees.
Wait, actually:
That formula doesn't work in this case, since we're the one with the bonus, so Yato would be the one that would gain the +2 bonus, where as we would gain unknown bonus.
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Hm, good to know. That fits, getting their full bonus wouldn't make sense either way, and besides, the training bonus we were getting at SL4 shouldn't have been as high as it seemed like. I guess the training bonuses are marked differently in this quest in comparison to Sage's AGG quests.
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I haven't played Sage's AGG quest, so I cannot say.
Yato was totally intentional, I even said so in the plan, I didn't create the winning plan for our bro, so I cannot say for Yamato, but I'd guess it too was intentional.
Looks like your right.
And yeah, having a +10 Bonus if it was AGG Sage Style would have been a bit too insane.
That's fair. Considering Hayato's apparent personality, we probably did ask at some point.
Oh it totally was. I made the plan last time, and gave him the name Yamato since it fit Hayato.
That and I drew from Yamato Takeru, someone whose personality is for the most part, the opposite of Nagai Yamato, but is still one of Japans most legendary heroes. Even possibly called a Shounen Hero from ancient times.
I forgot that you mentioned the one big family idea in the plan.
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"hall to your right"
"risks"
No vote yet. Still trying to figure out how the system works. Are caps for Martial Arts reflected anywhere? This probably should go to a pinned post about mechanics somewhere.
1. Assuming our Tagged Skills & Bonus Skills don't have an effect that raises the cap for them. Then all of our skills should still be 100.
2. Though our current cap for Unyielding Mountain Technique is 35, until we raise one of our Resistances to 50. Which will then raise UMT Cap to 50. Not sure on the exact formula behind it though. Since its connected to all Three Resistances.
3. Luckily in Combat, Hayato combines skill checks with Yato, including UMT. Though that's really only for supernatural threats. On the mundane side...well we probably shouldn't be using Unyielding Mountain Technique.
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When it comes to Martial Arts:
Oh, and to explain before there are questions:
Having points in Martial Arts alone is not enough to learn/use a specific Martial Art...with any kind of finesse or skill anyway.
Unless it's Brawling or Street Fighting, which essentially boil down to "Hit Them Hard Until They Fall Over", if you try to use a Martial Art Style without putting points into a corresponding Skill, then you'll suffer a penalty and be capped at 25 points into the Style and won't be able to access the higher parts of the Style.
For instances, if a Style uses a Sword but you have no points in Swords, then you won't be able to access the higher level moves and suffer a penalty whenever you try to use it in combat.
Now, you CAN still use a Martial Art Style without points in a corresponding Skill. It just won't be as effective and you'll kind of be flailing around without knowing what you're doing.
When it comes to Skill Caps:
The Standard Cap is 100. This is for most characters.
You can get a Cap of 150 if you complete certain events.
Your brother will start with a cap of 150 and can upgrade it to 200. Cause he's the Protagonist.
When it comes to Martial Art Skill Caps:
15 in Corresponding Skill = 35 Max Points in Martial Art
35 in Corresponding Skill = 50 Max Points in Martial Art
50 in Corresponding Skill = 75 Max Points in Martial Art
100 in Corresponding Skill = 100 Max Points in Martial Art
You learn whatever Martial Art the Partner knows the moment you make the contract. You start with only 10 points in it, however the Skill will be treated as a Bonus Skill and rise at the same rate as others. This will last until you 50 points in the Martial Art. At that point the Martial Art will become a Normal Skill, as the techniques start getting more difficult to learn/understand. Once it hits 75 points, the Martial Art will become a Debuffed Skill as you are getting close to completely Mastering it. You'd need to find an actual Master of the Martial Art to be able to over come this debuff.
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For the record, Hayato does kind of know. But his knowledge isn't deep enough right now to fully see it.
Basically, for Hayato, his brother's change likely has to do with the bullies they had to deal with. But Hayato always beat them up or scared them off, so he's not sure why his brother turned into this.
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And two hours have passed, so I'm calling the vote.
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In which case, the best bet for Hayato to improve in terms of UMT would be to raise his Spiritual Resistance since he already tagged it...though now that I think about it. I am kind of curious why so many voted for Physical Resistance instead...well doesn't matter much right now, anyhow.
Though would anything happen if he raised all three Resistance Skills to 100?
Gotcha. How were they living life before the quest anyhow? I mean before they managed to get an apartment. Like were they raised in an orphanage? Or...well anything really. Or is how they lived in the past beyond losing their parents a bit of a spoiler?
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The text of the martial art explicitly says it works better when the three Resistance Skills are in balance. I think LinkOnScepter made a post elaborating about this.
EDIT: Here it is.
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I am aware, I literally quoted the martial art. I was just confused on why everyone didn't focus on spiritual to raise the cap first, then the other resistances. But I didn't vote for any of the resistances, so shrugs.
The vote for physical resistance probably would work better in the long run admittedly. Though I'm not sure if In-Balance means UMT gets weaker if all three resistances are not at the same level, too low, or too high.
Or if UMT just becomes more useful regardless, as long as one adds points to the resistances.
...having multiple partners would be hell on AP. Especially if each came with a different martial art.
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LinkOnScepter
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Make a long story short, it's the whole True Martial Art thing Shounens have.
UMT will be just as effective if you only max one Resistance Skill, but it will have holes in it that can be exploited, and you wouldn't be able to unlock the "OP Pleass Nerf" Bullshit final technique.
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Afraid the Vote has been called, but your choice did win.
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Why do you have brawling and street fighting anyways? The AGG system typically acts in a weapons triangle of sorts, and skills generally are different from each other in a notable way. But street fighting and brawling tend to both describe the "undisciplined fighting" slot for AGG stuff.
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Train all Resistances in tandem, got it.