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    Matsura Asuka
    Head Designer for Ohara Airworks
    Age 24 (Legally 25)
    Year 12 AF (After Flight)

    Design Stats
    Aerodynamics Engineering - +2
    Structural Engineering - +2
    Chemical Engineering - +1
    Mechanical Engineering - +1
    Ballistics Engineering - +1
    Electrical Engineering - 0

    Personal/Political Stats
    Social Skills - 0
    Politics Skills - 0
    Importance - 2
    Income - 1
    Investments - Ohara

    Resources
    Power - 0
    Wealth - 2

    Designs
    Type 1 Series - Military Variation (Designated T1M1)
    Type 2 Racer (World Speed Record October 1910-April 1911, 180kph)
    Model 2 Scout (Designated T1M2)
    Navy Scout Prototype (Drowned Rat)
    Dive Bomber B1M1 "Duck"
    Machine Gun Carrier R1A "Dragonfly" (World Speed Record May-July 1911, 200kph)
    Naval Rescue Water-Landing Supply Plane NR1M0 "Dolphin" (World speed record 240kph)
    Rhino Demon Train Hunter
    The world's first airliner
    The world's first pulsejet airplane

    Assets
    Slide Rule
    Computator (1 Reroll per Routine)

    Languages
    Albian
    Gallian

    Familiar Vices
    Drinking
    Prostitutes
    Dancing

    Family Life
    - Engaged to Arita Yachi, formerly the leading Ace in the Imperial Army. Designated #1 Cutest Army Boy, he's having some serious problems with PTSD right now.
    - Taking a second try at dating Mikami Kiho, ex-dockerwork from the south.

    Upgrades
    - 3 XP to upgrade a stat.

    Ohara Airworks
    Start Up, Imperial Capital, Akitsukuni

    Owner
    - Mr. Ohara, Rich. Aircraft Enthusiast. Business guy.

    Engineers

    Kibe Koume, 26, Office Manager
    Tiny & angry, Kibe went to school in Albia, picking up the language, the religion, and a fuckload of swear words. Speaks Albian.
    Mechanical +2, Ballistics +1
    Office Manager: If Kibe is not assigned to a team, the Office Stress is reduced by 1.

    Sakane Jun, 26, Second Team Leader
    A soured patriot, Sakane is married and has a young child being raised gender-neutrally. His two brothers who fought in the war.
    Structural +2, Aerodynamics +1
    Team Leader: If there are any additional projects, Sakane will lead them.
    Joinery: Sakane has training in the traditional Akitsukuni carpentry art of joinery, creating complex self-supporting joints with no fasteners or glue. When working with non-monocoque wooden spars or ribs, +1 Structural.

    Tezuka Kenji, ???
    A stoner with occasional flashes of insight. Nobody really knows what he does, but he's probably useful?
    Aerodynamics +2, Chemical +1
    Flashes of Brilliance: Each natural 10 rolled by any team Tezuka is assigned to gives +1 forward to the next research roll.

    Hasegawa Morio, 26
    A hopeless nerd with a photography habit, mostly on account of developing his own film, Hasegawa seems to do nothing but work and stack card houses, but somehow has an incredible attractive boyfriend. Speaks Gallian.
    Chemical +2, Ballistic +1
    Silent Workhorse: Hasegawa can work on two different projects at once for no cost to Office Stress, providing they use different stats.

    Kawamura Yosai, 25.
    Serially successful womanizer and incredibly attractive, Kawamura doesn't seem to have much of a personality outside of seducing women. Well, except for that time he seduced Asuka, which nobody talks about. Speaks Dyske.
    Structural +2, Electrical +1, Social +1
    Easily Distracted: If Kawamura is working on the same team as a female or non-binary employee, the team is at -1d10.

    Koide Hatsu, 24.
    One of the few female graduates of an Akitsukuni engineering school, Koide is brilliant and incredibly driven, but her first job at Akibara was both humiliating and exposed her to an abusive coworker. Her father is a rich businessman with factories in Joseon, and she's engaged to Ken from Castles of Steel. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +2, Structural +1
    No Sleep: If you let her, Koide will work herself to death. She can work a second project for no Office Stress, but all her stats will be reduced to 1 for the routine.

    Kobayashi Ayao, ???
    Disowned heiress of the Kobayashi family, all Kobayashi wanted was a career and to be a modern woman. For her trouble, a cousin threw acid on her, scarring her face, neck, much of her torso, and her left arm. Despite appearing serene and above it all, she's actually an avowed communist activist and baseball player.
    Aerodynamics +2, Social +2

    Adachi Ren, 24
    Adachi learned chemistry from her father, one of the most famous chemical engineers in the country, rather than through formal schooling. She's married, has a kid, and takes spirituality very seriously. Yes, you did the math right, she had Yuki when she was 17. It's 1912, folks.
    Chemical +2, Electrical +1
    Young Mother: Adachi will cause double Office Stress if she has to work multiple tasks.

    Uyeno Sei, Ballistics Engineer, 31.
    The oldest member of the crew, this is Uyeno's second career. Her first was as an officer in the Imperial Navy with specialized technical training: her very promising career was cut short by her transition. Her work in a naval arsenal on machine-guns landed her the job here. Briefly dated Satomi (the age range is a bit creepy but again, 1912), she's missing a piece of her ear and is deaf on that side, from an exploding cannon. Recently returned from Varnmark from experimental surgery, she's known for her skill navigating gendered bureaucracy.
    Ballistic +3

    Mi Kyung-Jae, 23
    A recent graduate of the Imperial College of Heijo, Mi is from the recently annexed territory of Joseon. For those keeping track at home, that means he's a Korean national living in Imperial Japan in 1912. We haven't seen much of his personality because he's rightfully terrified of everything around him. He has a specialty in endurance engine design and modification. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +1, Chemical +1
    Endurance Engines: Mi has an excellent understanding of metallurgy and tolerances. Any engine he works on gains +1 Reliability if a 16+ is rolled.
    Pulsejet Wizard: Mi is now one of the world's leading experts on the pulsejet engine. He can be given his own project to custom-craft pulsejet engines, and he gives +1 to any pulsejet-related project.
    Joseon National: Mi does not have security clearance to work on any top-secret projects.

    Miyoshi Shigeri, 23.
    A non-binary person and admirer of Asuka's work, they were in an support role in the Army before joining the company.
    Structural +1, Mechanical +1, Aerodynamic +1
    Mechanic: Miyoshi has some experience repairing and refurbishing aircraft. They get +1 if assigned on the clean-up phase.


    Other Employees
    - Ohara Satomi, 22, Mr. Ohara's niece and the company test pilot, Ohara is a general lesbian disaster. She's good at flying planes, driving cars, and kissing girls. She's bad at being patient, being respectable, and sticking to literally anyones conceptions of gender roles. Deeply in lesbians with Coralie D'Amboise.
    - Fujkikawa Sotatsu, old, modelmaker. He's an old man and toymaker and we don't see much of him because he locks himself in his workshop a lot. He's friends with Kawamura?

    Assets
    - Engine Test Rig (Allows engine tweaking and optimization.
    - Wind Tunnel (+1 Aerodynamics)
    - Rapid Prototype Lab (+1 Clean Up)
    Expanded Cast

    Akitsukuni Industry
    - Homura Mohoko: Head Engine Designer for Kobayashi. First female engineer in the country. A lot of sex appeal.
    - Okumura: Head of Akibara aircraft design.
    - Yamanaka Hajime: Kobayashi engineer. Young and eager.
    - Igarashi Masazumi: Kobayashi engineer. Reserved and experienced.
    - Admiral Akibara Toru: Imperial Navy Admiral. Maximum nepotism. Maximum douchebag.
    - Lt.Cmnd Akibara Shinzo: The above's son. A hottie but very forward.



    Character Families
    - Matsura(?) Mizuko: Asuka's sister. Was paralyzed in an accident in Asuka's first flight. Lives Elsewhere and is married now. Can't forgive Asuka, even though she's tried.
    - Adachi Motoki: Adachi's husband, an accountant. Legally blind.
    - Adachi Yuki: Adachi's 7 year old daughter and wannabe pilot. Very adorable.
    - Yachi's Brother: Exists.
    - Sakane's Wife: Exists. Drives him a bit crazy, but he loves her.
    - Yachi's Brother's Wife: Exists. Is statistically likely to be pregnant.
    - Lt. Coralie D'Amboise: Gallian pilot in exile. Satomi's girlfriend. 25. Accomplished bisexual duelist. She flew in the war for a single day, and for her troubles got a hole blown in her cheek and had her left arm paralyzed.

    Akisukuni Army & Ex-Army
    - Lt. Torio Tanaka: Yachi's former observer as an enlisted man. Was jumped up to fly Ducks and lost a leg on his first mission. A trained painter, married to Torio Saya.
    - Captain Amari Shiro: A Dragonfly pilot who ended up flying as Yachi's partner. Kind of delightfully twinky. They sorta slept together at one point, which wasn't great. He lost his previous boyfriend in the April Offensive and turned his plane into a shrine. He was shot in the gut and is still recovering.
    - Major Izuhara: Logistics officer, Imperial Army, this bespectled officer stood up to the Caspian Crown Prince and accidentally kicked off the Akitsikuni-Caspian War. The guilt was so much that, after almost a year of running Army procurement, he shot himself in a phone both.
    - Captain Nakai Sekien: Army scout pilot. First person to drop a bomb from an airplane, later head of the Duck Squadrons.
    - Captain Teshima: A Desk pilot that fought with Yachi. Lost an arm in the process, took over for Major Izuhara after his death. Seems cheery despite it all.
    - Captain Nashio: A real piece of shit dude and probably a rapist, he's also a war hero as the second-highest scoring ace on the Akitsukuni side. He was a young shitty kid in way over his head but it's no excuse.
    - Lt. Kinjo: Kind of a dumb lump and Nashio's friend, one of the desk pilots. Dead at 19.
    - Lt. Okazaki: Yachi's friend from before the war and pilot, he died in a spin in his dragonfly. His death probably hit Yachi the hardest.

    Westerners
    - Rose & Antoinette Sears: Pioneers of flight. Sisters. Black in 1910s not!America. Yikes.
    - Timina Guasti: Famous aircraft designer from Otrusia. Likes big planes and green.
    - Prince Protasov Vasilyevich: Crown Prince of Great Caspia. Real dick. You gotta hand it to him though, a decent flier.
    - Count von Zeppelin: Invented rigid airships. Runs a successful airline business. Damned impressive.
    - Bennhold: Aircraft Engineer. Experimenting with metal aircraft.
    - Aileen Middlemiss: Albian reporter for the Artimis Times. Well meaning and oblivious.
    Available Tech
    • Materials: Wood, Duralumin, Molded Wood, Wood & Silk Composite, etc
    • All engine mounts
    • All wing types
    • Basic reinforcement
    • Wing warping and ailerons
    • Basic water radiators
    • Flying Wings
    • Semi-Monocoque design (requires at least half the slots have frame pieces)
    • Valved pulsejets
    • Basic weapon mounts and turrets
    Tech not Yet Developed
    • Custom engines
    • Monocoque construction
    • Cantilever Wings and associated tech
    • V and T tails
    • Tailless designs
    • Aluminum and titanium
    • Cellulose surfacing
    • Any kind of radar
    • Weapon accessability mods
    • Interruptor gear
    • Geared propellers
    • And Maybe Other Stuff
    Akitsukuni
    Island Nation

    Government
    Constitutional Monarchy
    - The democratic portions of the government are dubiously legitimate.
    - The head of state is the Empress of Akitsukuni. She gives her blessing to newly formed governments.
    - The Navy and a small number of families have undue influence on politics.

    Economy
    Developing Mixed Market
    - Most industry is controlled by a small number of wealthy, family-owned companies.
    - The state provides most contracts to industry. Consumer good market is anemic.
    - Exports are few, mostly cultural.
    - Imports are raw minerals, food, oil, and expertise.
    - Currently suffering an economic crash after the last war.

    Politics
    The Diet is currently ruled by a Constitutional Nationalist government. It has a system of nonlocal proportional representation, with representatives appointed by the party in accordance to their share of the vote.
    - Constitutional Nationalists: 50%
    - Purity Club: 9%
    - New Independents: 26%
    - Fairness Association: 11%
    - United Communist League: 2%
    - Monarchists: 1%
    - Assorted Fringe Parties: 5%

    Demographics
    Akitsukuni is mostly very ethnically homogeneous. Around 5% of the population are various minorities, most from nearby countries. Roughly .1% are westerners here for business or in advisory positions.
    - Population: 55 Million
    - Religion: Mostly Kodo. Roughly 2% of the population follows western religions.
    - Wealth: Most wealth is concentrated in the top 5% of the country. Nearly 20% of the population lives in conditions indistinguishable from peasantry.
    - Urbanization: Heavily urbanized for a small economy: 35% and rapidly growing.

    Military
    At Peace
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Navy (IAN): The 6th largest in the world, and the most experienced.
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Army (IAA): 150,000 highly experienced soldiers, and a considerable reserve.

    Aspects
    - Poor Resources: Aluminum costs +1.
    - Damn Akitsukuni Engines!: Engines have -1 Reliability.



    The Main Character Of This Quest Is Nonbinary And Uses They/Them Pronouns.

    I Am Putting This Here Because The Next Person To Misgender Them Is Getting Yeeted Into The Trash

    Also here's the Gayaverse TV Tropes page, because why not.​
     
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    • CthuluWasRight said:
    Straight up giving me Vietnam flashbacks to when archaeologists ripped apart Great Zimbabwe desperately hunting for evidence that white people built it.

    Please, spare me any more of this. I'm fucking begging you.
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    It is 1911 in the Gayaverse.

    It is happening. You don't have to like it, but ultimately it's up to you whether you want to deal with it or not.
     
    7734 said:
    Why are clever player-designed combinations a bad thing? Because it means the GM has to counter-escalate, which means you get a lot of skill stratification that can wreck havoc on groups of mixed skill.
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    Not especially applicable here. First off, you can just have everyone use prebuilt planes if people aren't up to making their own. Second, you can just have the most skilled player(s) design everyone's planes if the group prefers. Third, the rules are loose enough that the GM has plenty of freedom to ensure everyone contributes to the story, even if some have better-designed planes than others (at least as long as nobody tries the design system but fails badly enough to be unable to fly or whatever, which is the sort of thing you should catch during Session Zero).

    EDIT: whoops, forgot option 4 - everyone designs planes to roughly equal effectiveness with the worst-designed plane in the party, using any extra resources optimized out of the system in pursuit of "fucking sweet" instead of "mechanically ideal."
     
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    Ramble said:
    It is 1911 in the Gayaverse.

    It is happening. You don't have to like it, but ultimately it's up to you whether you want to deal with it or not.
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    I mean, we've already thrown medical science out the window. A mass shooting of the racist asshats who never did archeology outside the university library wouldn't be too much of a stretch given this setting.
     
    Yeah that's enough of that. You've made your opinion about the presence of trans people in these quests well known one too many times, and quite frankly I'm done. Goodbye.
     
    the tab on the war has been updated, you can find it under informational.
     
    "Throwing medical science out of the window" is a loaded statement in any discussion that touches on trans right, because it's a prominent anti-trans argument (not that it makes any sense, but...). You shouldn't use it without qualifying what you mean.
     
    CthuluWasRight said:
    I mean you did passive-aggressively attack their presence and many other elements of the setting twice, so...
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    I have no issue with trans people. It is totally and completely tangenial to what I'm approaching this story from- that is, engineering first, and historically second. Historically speaking, hormone supplements and therapies were at this time, 1911 plus or minus some technological wiggles, a complete and utter crapshoot. The oldest hormonal therapy, treating hypothytoid with iodine, was only really recognized in 1870, and didn't get a decent measure of effectiveness until the thirties. Pelvic hormones in general weren't really looked at until the 1920s, and successful reproduction of synthetic testosterone wasn't a thing until 1935; and the estrogen groups weren't really scratched until 1929.

    Now, Sketch said she'd rather not deal with the historical HAZMAT zone that was period gender studies, and that's fine. I don't care- the author explicitly said she's not having any of it. But if people start throwing this and that and everything else out the window, then this stops being something historical at all, and just becomes generic steampunk. I'll admit, I got invested in this seeing a good, reasonable alternate history with the names filed off, but if that's not happening then it's not happening.
     
    Violation of Rule 3 - You Do Not Need To Sum Up With 'You're a transphobe or an idiot or both'.
    7734 said:
    I have no issue with trans people. It is totally and completely tangenial to what I'm approaching this story from- that is, engineering first, and historically second. Historically speaking, hormone supplements and therapies were at this time, 1911 plus or minus some technological wiggles, a complete and utter crapshoot. The oldest hormonal therapy, treating hypothytoid with iodine, was only really recognized in 1870, and didn't get a decent measure of effectiveness until the thirties. Pelvic hormones in general weren't really looked at until the 1920s, and successful reproduction of synthetic testosterone wasn't a thing until 1935; and the estrogen groups weren't really scratched until 1929.

    Now, Sketch said she'd rather not deal with the historical HAZMAT zone that was period gender studies, and that's fine. I don't care- the author explicitly said she's not having any of it. But if people start throwing this and that and everything else out the window, then this stops being something historical at all, and just becomes generic steampunk. I'll admit, I got invested in this seeing a good, reasonable alternate history with the names filed off, but if that's not happening then it's not happening.
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    It's almost as if... bear with me for a moment, it's almost as if this is an alternate history with an explicit focus on advanced technology, even when this conflicts with reality.

    This is the basic premise of this quest. Of this world. Meaning that any complaints you have that ignore that... Put simply you are either an idiot or a transphobe. Or both.
     
    7734 said:
    But if people start throwing this and that and everything else out the window, then this stops being something historical at all, and just becomes generic steampunk.
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    I honestly find it difficult to more strongly disagree. For starters, this world is explicitly not just an alternate history, and even if it were, making arguments based on our historical timeline is still wildly incorrect because... Well, because it's alternate history, extra emphasis on the alternate. If there being more advanced medical and hormone treatments in 1911 than there were IRL is genuinely so immersion-shattering that you find the entire setting is ruined then I genuinely don't know what to tell you, because having more advanced gender roles and a more progressive society in general is literally at the core of this entire universe.

    The historical conflicts, the general understanding of airplane design, the current geopolitical situation and the aeronautical and military technology are all accurately modeled, but because the Dragonfly's design is a stretch IRL and there's hormone therapy the setting is suddenly dumb and generic?

    It just doesn't make sense to me, honestly. At this point, I'm more confused than I am pissed off. If it's not your cup of tea, then by all means leave, but as a QM yourself you surely must agree that the QM doesn't have to change major elements of the setting to suit one specific player. And if there being trans people in the setting doesn't matter to you, then stop bringing it up to back up your points about the planes being unrealistic. Because then you are, by extension, attacking the inclusion of trans people and similar elements of the worldbuilding as something that is unrealistic and ruins the game. And this really isn't an audience that will be anything close to receptive towards that argument.
     
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    If anything this is a Dieselpunk setting, one that's fairly low on the gonzo scale (especially when one looks at everything aside from planes).
     
    Godwinson said:
    If anything this is a Dieselpunk setting, one that's fairly low on the gonzo scale (especially when one looks at everything aside from planes).
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    Even the planes aren't that crazy! That's what I don't get here! How did we get from debating rule of cool to the presence of trans people within the setting? I feel like I've stumbled into the Twilight Zone!
     
    Wiadi said:
    Not especially applicable here. First off, you can just have everyone use prebuilt planes if people aren't up to making their own
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    There are intended to be three levels of plane nerd in the final game:
    Level One Plane Nerdery is playing the game and having adventures in your cool planes
    Level Two is using the Plane Builder. (Technically it's an aircraft builder, as plane only applies to things with fixed wings, so airships, rotorcraft, ornithopters, and things stranger yet are not, strictly speaking, planes)
    Level Three is using the Engine Builder, which I don't quite have the hang of for piston engines, and there's also supposed to be rules about diesel conversion, and rules for making pulse jets and turbojets and triple-expansion steam engines...
     
    Flying Circus' core setting of Himmilgard is a much different setting that Gaya. For one, everyone there is a German, while only some of the people here are Germans. For another, Himmilgard has dragons and magic, while the only magic in Gaya is Asuka's brain.

    They do share the commonality of being very queer but that's because I'm the one writing it and BY GOD, THERE WILL BE GAY.
     
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    • resolution 7734, you're rather disrupting the thread here, and making the QM not happy. So you're booted out for 4 weeks, and if you return to more trouble, you won't get another chance.
    tearlessNever said:
    This is the basic premise of this quest. Of this world. Meaning that any complaints you have that ignore that... Put simply you are either an idiot or a transphobe. Or both.
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    This shoots across the line into a personal attack, tearlessNever. If you think a post is problematic, you can report it without getting to the point of 'you're a transphobe or an idiot or both'. 25 points and 3 days out.

    Thread reopened. Everyone behave. Open Sketch has my hotline.
     
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