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The Laurent said:
[X] Request that you and Jinah be accompanied by a Jaeger company (1.1x)

The troops are there to make us look like less of a target. They aren't there for actually *protecting* us, per se.
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Hangwind said:
[X] Request that you and Jinah be accompanied by a Jaeger company (1.1x)

I'm half tempted to make a write-in to send Jinah out with a Jaeger company...

I could be swayed toward [] Demand to be deployed with Jinah (1x) though...
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The problem with taking a full company (and to a lesser degree a platoon) is that it draws attention to us. If it was just us and Jinah we could hitch along with a South Woods train going that way and observe things quietly. She SHOULD know how to mask her presence by now.
 
[] Will leave the settlement and whatever mysterious thing is going to happen alone (0.7x)
-Lazy option. Hell no.

[] Demand to be deployed with Jinah (1x)
-If we were slated to lose alone, being deployed with Jinah would turn that around. At the same time, being alone with only Jinah as assistance in a situation that might require actual military power might be too little, in which case both of them are screwed.

[] Request to head out with Jinah and a platoon of Jaegers (1.4x)
-Yeah, we'll be much safer this way, as we have our own personal meat shields. It also doesn't piss too many people off, if at all.

[] Request that you and Jinah be accompanied by a Jaeger company (1.1x)
-We'll be virtually assured to be safe in this situation, but we're going to step on many many toes this way.

[] Attempt to get a significant force deployed to protect the community (0.9x)
-We effectively can't lose to the Mantis incursion, and will likely be able to focus all of our personal effort on the 'slippery' bastard that's messing with us, a possible sorcerer. Everyone will also hate us.

The options are basically a sliding scale of primary and secondary objective success rate vs. diplomatic penalty, and right now I have no idea which one I want to take.
 
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Powerofmind said:
[] Will leave the settlement and whatever mysterious thing is going to happen alone (0.7x)
-Lazy option. Hell no.

[] Demand to be deployed with Jinah (1x)
-If we were slated to lose alone, being deployed with Jinah would turn that around. At the same time, being alone with only Jinah as assistance in a situation that might require actual military power might be too little, in which case both of them are screwed.

[] Request to head out with Jinah and a platoon of Jaegers (1.4x)
-Yeah, we'll be much safer this way, as we have our own personal meat shields. It also doesn't piss too many people off, if at all.

[] Request that you and Jinah be accompanied by a Jaeger company (1.1x)
-We'll be virtually assured to be safe in this situation, but we're going to step on many many toes this way.

[] Attempt to get a significant force deployed to protect the community (0.9x)
-We effectively can't lose to the Mantis incursion, and will likely be able to focus all of our personal effort on the 'slippery' bastard that's messing with us, a possible sorcerer. Everyone will also hate us.

The options are basically a sliding scale of primary and secondary objective success rate vs. diplomatic penalty, and right now I have no idea which one I want to take.
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We should be able to keep our nose out of the raid and focus on the slippery presence if we want.
 
Academia Nut said:
"You will shortly be considered an adult by the laws of Green Owl... which means that either you gain pretty much full freedom as an agent of the government, or you are declared incompetent to be unsupervised and I remain your guardian. I highly doubt that we will be going for the latter option, but I prefer to be honest about what the stakes are," you tell Jinah pleasantly while you work over your university homework. While you've had to switch to a secondary disguise, you are able to actually go about in public without risking that someone will find out that you're alive. It's been refreshing to be able to get out more.

Jinah just opens one of the eyes from where she is meditating, rolls said eye, and then says, "You're always the optimist, you know that?"

You smile beatifically at her and say, "Yes."
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That would explain some of our more questionable decisions.

Closing her eye again, Jinah then asks speculatively, "So I know that I'm listed of as a 'state asset' - you are too, but fuck you little miss princess - but what does that actually mean?"

"You can't immigrate, and you can be compelled to serve in a capacity deemed fitting, which for you means military service most likely, although regular volunteering to hunt dragons can probably keep you away from other conflicts fairly easily. You will be compensated fairly handsomely since we don't want you to leave on your own," you state.
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...worrisome. I see where Anna's coming from, buuut training psykers to be neither assholes nor walking daemonic portals is more important than keeping them under direct control.
"Does that include cute pool boys with those cloned Terran palm leaves that pops up online?" Jinah asks cheekily.

"Yes actually," you reply. At the silence, you add on, "Anna actually has the provisions for high ranking officials to receive sexual favours from select volunteers. She... uh... didn't want to appear a hypocrite and figured that regulating it was easier than having the officials sneak around and open up potential security leaks."

There is a pause before Jinah says, "Your sister is a complete horndog, isn't she?"

"All six of her children are from different fathers, so yes, yes I believe that is an adequate description. She may even throw around phrases like 'bitch in heat' at times. I would of course pick more diplomatic phrasing, but she's not exactly the greatest of diplomats," you state with a shrug.
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Hahahahahaha! :D

There is another pause that you wait patiently for Jinah to fill before she asks, "Soooo... little miss goody two shoes, did you...?"

"A few times, yes. Nothing really substantial though," you say as you finish up your homework and then take out your cards. Anna is predicting that there will be a Mantis raider group 'leaking' through the Belter defence network soon and she wants regular updates on when and where it might arrive. As much as everyone "knows" that the Belters allow a certain amount of trouble to get through they can't exactly directly point the Mantis in the direction of the people they want punished.

As you go through your divinations, a frown comes across your face. There will definitely be a Mantis raid sometime this year, but there is something interfering with your efforts. Not... not quite another psyker... and you think you have identified some degree of interference in your divinations from a psyker in Blackthorn, but this isn't it.
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Something Warpish but not a psyker makes me think it's either Warp predators of some kind or a sorcerer.

Rolled 94 + (126 + 60 + 70 + 10) - 65 + 40 = 335

Rolled 32 -> Haunting Breeze

Air swirling about you as you push further into the future, you dig deeper and find that the Mantis will be hitting a minor settlement outside your general sphere of influence, but something is going to interfere with them. Whatever it is, it is conceptually slippery. Something psychic in nature you think... possibly Eldar. It is quite hard to tell.
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Step up the Tzeentch Alert!

What is not quite so hard to tell is that this is going to be a troublesome sell to Anna if you want to interfere. The settlement is just far enough outside your generally accepted sphere of influence that deploying troops there is going to cause internal and external political issues. After kicking the shit out of Speakeasy Central last year and forcibly making them a "protectorate" sending off force - especially without justification before the Mantis arrive - will send a signal that Anna is going to begin a major expansion phase, which could get some of the other powers to begin acting against her, which is sub-ideal. If it was closer she could pull off a training exercise or the like and be ready to scramble right away, but as it is, she's unlikely to want to send substantial forces there.

The trouble is that whatever is going to happen is so damn slippery that you are having a hard time deciding on what will actually be encountered. Will it be friendly or hostile? If you knew it was friendly you are fairly confident that you could deploy there with limited forces and at least be able to hold things off until air support could arrive, but if it is hostile you could be overwhelmed.

Then again Jinah in the forest is basically a walking strategic nuclear warhead...
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Well, the best response to Tzeentch bullshit like this is to just ignore it, so let's just do what we'd do if they weren't going to screw with us.
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[] Will leave the settlement and whatever mysterious thing is going to happen alone (0.7x)
[] Demand to be deployed with Jinah (1x)
[] Request to head out with Jinah and a platoon of Jaegers (1.4x)
[] Request that you and Jinah be accompanied by a Jaeger company (1.1x)
[] Attempt to get a significant force deployed to protect the community (0.9x)
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Why is the Jinah-only option listed as a demand but the others are requests or attempts?
Ekans Ekans Ekans said:
@Academia Nut How QUIETLY can we deploy if we bring a Platoon?
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Well, everyone involved can literally come in through the forest, so probably pretty quietly.
 
@Academia Nut
Do our cards say anything about whether soldiers impede contact with the slippery presence? Do we know a way to interfere with divination via sorcery?
 
Jinah on her own has a combat bonus of at minimum 44 martial + 66 PC + 60 mystery power = 170

Mirande on her own at minimum has 66 martial + 22 PC + 63 Invigoration = 151

A platoon led by Mirande fighting a Mantis force would probably have something like 66 martial + 20 heavy weapons +30 discipline = 116

They aren't going to make a significant difference in a fight.
 
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[X] Request to head out with Jinah and a platoon of Jaegers (1.4x)

We could pretend they're an Honour Guard for a member of the Royal Family.
"We're just on a hunting trip. We heard there was a race we hadn't Slain yet and wanted to try Momento Mori out on them"

Maybe catch a Dragon or two on the way for verisimilitude.
 
Nix said:
Jinah on her own has a combat bonus of at minimum 44 martial + 66 PC + 60 mystery power = 170

Mirande on her own at minimum has 66 martial + 22 PC + 63 Invigoration = 151

A platoon led by Mirande fighting a Mantis force would probably have something like 66 martial + 20 heavy weapons +30 discipline = 116

They aren't going to make a significant difference in a fight. A company might have a bonus higher by 20 due to numbers, still not a major difference.
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Ehh we've seen numbers as dramatic as -70 for being outnumbered
 
Nix said:
Jinah on her own has a combat bonus of at minimum 44 martial + 66 PC + 60 mystery power = 170

Mirande on her own at minimum has 66 martial + 22 PC + 63 Invigoration = 151

A platoon led by Mirande fighting a Mantis force would probably have something like 66 martial + 20 heavy weapons +30 discipline = 116

They aren't going to make a significant difference in a fight. A company might have a bonus higher by 20 due to numbers, still not a major difference.
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But you see, we can use them strategically to get a flanking bonus or have them delay the enemy so we can retreat.

So add +20 to both Mirande and Jinah for flanking, and don't forget about the morale aspect too.
 
Yorick's Skull said:
[X] Request to head out with Jinah and a platoon of Jaegers (1.4x)

We could pretend they're an Honour Guard for a member of the Royal Family.
"We're just on a hunting trip. We heard there was a race we hadn't Slain yet and wanted to try Momento Mori out on them"

Maybe catch a Dragon or two on the way for verisimilitude.
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It so sad we cannot eat there souls :( They do not have enough warp presence.
 
Nix said:
Jinah on her own has a combat bonus of at minimum 44 martial + 66 PC + 60 mystery power = 170

Mirande on her own at minimum has 66 martial + 22 PC + 63 Invigoration = 151

A platoon led by Mirande fighting a Mantis force would probably have something like 66 martial + 20 heavy weapons +30 discipline = 116

They aren't going to make a significant difference in a fight.
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If there's some kind of anti-psy effect, if there are multiple objectives, if we need a distraction while we do something sneaky... there are definitely reasons to possibly bring some soldiers. Going by weighting, Mirande is inclined to think the same.

That said, my biggest concern here is visibility. If we can bring a platoon and just pretend to be bodyguards for a trading caravan or the like, I'd say that's our best bet.
 
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