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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)
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    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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    Dagon-Paper
    • Perhaps a bit exploity. Strangest plane yet.
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    Holy hell. That's a really clever bit of exploitiness that I totally missed. And also it looks absolutely horrifying. I approve wholeheartedly.
    I named it the "Dagon" because if any plane deserves to be named for a Cthulhu mythos elder god, it is this one, and because I am not good at finding D names.
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    Fun fact of the day: Dagon was originally an ancient Mesopotamian fertility god (his name comes originally from a word for grain), later associated with fish/mermen by a quirk of etymology, and adopted by H.P. Lovecraft and other writers as an aquatic cult figure thanks to that connection.
     
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    .......you know, I heard some strange sobbing in the corner, and looking over there's Physics-chan trembling and crying. Wonder why.
     
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    There's no good reason for those booms to go that far back, and it messes with the center of gravity. They should probably end pretty close the the rear wing. Then, pushing the vertical stabilizers farther back relative to the booms to compensate is probably a good idea, and it might be possible and useful to integrate the structure needed for them to work with the large amount of struts holding the whole thing together. Also, even with that change, I suspect the wings would need to be proportionately a little farther back for it to work, though this a second opinion from @Crasian01 would be good.

    Finally, you may have missed that I also submitted a more conventional design, the Dromedary. Though if you simply decided that it is normal enough that you don't need a preliminary sketch, that would certainly be fair.
     
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    • The wedding was taking place in the relatively spacious suburbian home of the parents of one of the brides, which was in an older style and had a nice little courtyard. It was one of the homes the city had sort out of caught up with, fifty years older than everything around it. The Horikiris weren't rich or anything, they were just an older merchant family who'd seen their star rise a bit after the caste system was abolished and they could put their money toward land and stability. A good enough family for one of the first female police officers to come from, though you knew it had been a tough fight for her.

    You remembered the confusion and tension among your professors when you first attended Horonai, how you had to fight at every turn to have your identity recognized by the facility and your presence tolerated by your peers. None of them could really say that you didn't belong, of course, but it wouldn't do that you were showing them up. Not your place, your professors would say.

    As you killed the engine, you found yourself thinking somewhat dark thoughts. You loved your country, of course, but... it kinda sucked, huh. It was getting better, but every step was an uphill battle.

    "You off in the clouds, Asuka?" Mikami asked, and you did your best to shake the thoughts from your head. No sad! Only party!

    "You ever known me to be anywhere else?" That got her to smile momentarily, which was all you needed.

    You grabbed your present off the back seat and the two of you made your way to the front door, shedding your shoes as you were greeted by Mrs. Horikiri and directed inside. Mr. Horikiri was, of course, kicked out of the house for the night. Just beyond the wall was a solid wall of laughter and conversation and it was more than a little intimidating, and you found yourself breathing slow to try to steady yourself.

    "... seriously, Asuka, you're as nervous as I've ever seen you." Mikami said. "You belong here, don't worry."

    "It's not that. It's... I-I don't know why. It's really freaking me out." You said. The noise was pressing in in a way you'd never experienced, never could have expected. Sometimes the office got like this when it was too busy, and roughhousing students in the dorms, maybe... but never like this. Never this intensity.

    She nodded slowly. "Alright, well, don't go to pieces on me just yet. There's peaks and valleys to something like this, and during the quiet parts we'll find you a place to be to recharge. That sound good?"

    You nodded. You could do this. There would be quiet parts.

    ---

    This was a mistake.

    It felt like there had to be a hundred people in the tiny little courtyard and swarming about the house, and like they were all talking as loud as they could. It was like a tidal wave, pressing in from all directions, pushing you into yourself. So many people you didn't know, all of them eagerly taking up what limited personal space you felt you had and trying to talk to you, a barrage of greetings and pleasantries and unrestrained laughter. Several times you lost Mikami in the crowd and, like a lost child, you had to push through to find her again, adrift without her.

    She was so much better at this than you. She seemed to know what to say to all these people, and you weren't even sure exactly what any of them were saying. There were so many overlapping voices it was impossible to make anything out.

    Somehow, by some miracle, you dropped off your gift (you got them a bracelet set, the safe gift if you didn't know the couple well, in a navy blue that matched Officer Horikiri's uniform) and found your way to the drinks, where there was a considerable assortment of cheap and extremely strong booze available. After a moment, you selected a whiskey with a bad reputation and got a generous portion from the unknown figure manning the table, and you planted yourself in a corner and waited for it to take effect.

    You could do with that valley any time now. Any time...

    Things only seemed to intensify for a little while as the last guests arrived, but finally, finally, things seemed to calm down a little. People started taking seats on the grass instead of just standing around, and you finally spotted Mikami again and made your way to her side. She was talking to somebody who looked fairly familiar, and as you circled around to find a path to them you realized why, as you saw the patch of discoloured skin on her neck and cheek.

    "Kobyashi! What are you doing here?" You asked, half-shocked and half-relieved.

    "I'm on Ms. Komori's baseball team." She said simply. "Kazumi is a dear friend."

    "... you play baseball???" The idea that Kobyashi did anything other than elegant aerodynamic equations while looking dignified and scary seemed impossible to you.

    "Yes. I've played for the last two years. Tokei has a woman's league. I talk about it every day at work." She said, not sounding nearly as exasperated as you imagined she felt. Like everything she said, it was a near-monotone, perfectly restrained.

    "That's... wait, is that at the field near the train station?"

    "Yes. It's a straight line on the streetcar from where I live." She said, looking at you inscrutably. Were you being judged? Was this judgement?

    "That's... that's awesome." You said, wishing you had more whiskey. You were trying to come up with something more to say when an ear-splitting cheer went up all around you, and you looked to the doors of the house to see Officer Horikiri in her dress uniform and her girlfriend Kazumi dressed up all fancy. Was this it? Was this the ceremony, finally?

    ---

    It was not. You were foolish to think it could be. There was a lot more socializing to go. Apparently it was tradition for the couple to unwrap all their gifts in front of the crowd while they hooted and hollered about the contents. Most of it was simple, just clothes, bracelets, booze, and so forth (you didn't get money, of course, because you weren't supposed to get anything the couple's husbands might try to take from them). However, you learned that if you were a close friend of the couple you had an obligation to get them embarrassing gifts. Frankly, the whole thing seemed utterly undignified, which you increasingly thought was probably the real reason men weren't allowed to attend. It was like a tightly-focused version of New Years Eve parties, a chance for these women to let the poise and restraint slip.

    As much as you envied that in a way, you'd been right all along. You didn't belong here. Being on the sidelines of it was unbearable.

    Eventually, you simply couldn't take any more, and you bummed a cigarette off somebody as an excuse to head out to the street. You hadn't smoked since the Dolphin project got cancelled, and to be honest you'd never smoked very much at all, but it could be calming sometimes, the mechanical motion of lifting it to your lips. You fumbled with a matchbox, snapping one of your matches, and you foolishly picked it up and tried to strike just the bulb while holding it between your fingers, resulting in nothing more than abrasion against your fingertips.

    Somebody behind you struck a match, and you turned to find Mikami there. She lit it for you, and the two of you sat on the curb together.

    "Too loud." You said simply, and not entirely honestly.

    "It's a lot." She agreed. "Not as bad as some I've been too, but yeah, it's rowdy."

    Another cheer from inside, louder and more mirthful than anything you'd heard yet. Mikami smiled.

    "That's probably Kobyashi's gift, I imagine."

    You nodded, blushing.

    "Let's just take a minute to let it die down." You said, finishing your cigarette.

    ---

    You ducked back in as the gift exchange was ending and the actual ceremony itself was taking place. Everyone cleared a space out from the courtyard, and a friend ran the ribbon (in this case, a pretty blue and red one with a floral pattern, fairly thin) between the couple as they stood on opposite ends of the courtyard. They wrapped it once around their hands, bowed to the assembled crowd, and started walking a circuit around the courtyard, wrapping the ribbon around their hand, letting it slip a ways up their wrist and forearm as they went so it didn't bunch up. Slowly, deliberately.

    Finally, there was deathly silence. Everything else was a party, a game, but this was sacred.

    You quickly worked out the pattern. They were both wrapping it identically around their hand as they went, once every half rotation around the room. You weren't exactly sure how you knew that the average diameter of the average person's hand was about 15 centimeters, but it meant that every time they circled the room, they got sixty centimeters closer to each other. The scarf was maybe four meters long, so six point six six repeating rotations. Call it seven, Kazumi had small hands.

    Sure enough, about the seventh rotation, the two of them met near the middle of the courtyard (closer, unsurprisingly, to Yoko's side). Yoko pulled her in the last little way with a smile, their hands met and fingers intertwined, and they kissed. It was incredibly sweet.

    Then the noise started again, and the crowd descended upon the pair to hit them with evergreen branches, which was supposed to make it official, though it was probably just fun.

    The next hour proceeded through a series of increasingly drunk and increasingly dumb games that the couple had to participate in while still tied together... you started worrying for their circulation, but it seemed fine. You mostly stuck to the sidelines, drank, and talked with Kobyashi and Mikami when they circled back around, as well as with other partygoers who were rapidly dropping out. The rate of alcohol consumption was considerable, by you and by everyone else, and the house was quickly running dry (you imagined by design). People finally started saying their goodbyes soon after, mostly the guests who weren't as close to the couple, and at Mikami's signal you went to make your goodbyes as well.

    "It was lovely, Horikiri." You said, waving. She was blushing and smiling and Kazumi was basically hanging off her arm at this point, she'd lost her hat, and they both looked exhausted, but she spared a moment for you anyway.

    "It was great to have you!" She said, slurring her words a little. "Now you know what not to do for your thing, huh?"

    "Their thing?" Kazumi asked, clearly more than a little out of it.

    "They're getting married. To a boy. Groooooss."

    "I'm getting married to a boy, Yoko!"

    "Not today you aren't..."

    You took their display of public affection as a cue to dip and make for the exit, taking Mikami by the hand and heading to your car. You slipped on the edge of the curb and stumbled, and Mikami caught you.

    "What are we thinking. Asuka, you're not driving!"

    You swayed in place a moment, then nodded. Right. That was illegal. Yoko was a cop, she'd know. She knew where you lived.

    "Right. Yeah, no, good catch, that would have been bad. So how we getting home?"

    It was late. Streetcars only ran once every hour past eleven, and you had no idea when the next one would be.

    "I don't know if we're getting all the way home tonight. We shoulda planned this better." Mikami said, leaning her head against your shoulder. "I'm out of ideas."

    "Wait for the streetcar, I guess."

    So the two of you made your way to the stop and sat down on the bench there. She leaned against you, smearing her perfect makeup a little against the baby blue of your kimono. The little alarm about your personal space was still going off, but the booze clamped it down.

    "Asuka... you okay?" She said. She was so familiar with your name. Must be a southern thing. It couldn't have escaped her that you were much more cautious with hers.

    "I'm fine."

    "No, I mean... at the party. You were really out of it, and I screwed up. I shoulda been watching out for you better." She said, gripping your hand. Her accent came out a lot more with the booze.

    "It's okay, really." You insisted. "I'm just... I've never been in a space like that. It was... too much, in a lot of different ways." You said, not really entirely sure what you meant by it. Mikami nodded anyway.

    "I getcha. I'm sorry, really. Shoulda stuck closer." She said. "So, uh, which car is this?"

    "Oh, fuck, uuuh...." You checked the sign and tried to work the map out in your head. "Well, it'll take us... near to... fuck. It'll take us downtown, then I guess we'll need to take one out to your place... then I'll need to double back to home..." Oh wow, it'd be well into the early hours of the morning before you got home. You did not feel up to that.

    "Aww, that's mighty sweet of you, but you don't have to do that." She said.

    [ ] Right. We'll split up downtown. (The holding pattern continues)
    [ ] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)​
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    • [x] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)
    might just help things along?
     
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    [X] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)


    I demand

    THE GAYEST OF DRAMA!
     
    Wait what? we have army boy!
    [X] Right. We'll split up downtown. (The holding pattern continues)
     
    wtdtd said:
    Wait what? we have army boy!
    [X] Right. We'll split up downtown. (The holding pattern continues)
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    veteranMortal said:
    Akitisukini is more accepting of polyamory (it's kinda polynormative, I think?) than IRL.
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    Specifically, a weird sort of treatment of homosexual and heterosexual relationships as completely separate spheres that don't overlap. You can't cheat on a guy with a girl!

    Asuka, as is often the case, lives in a grey area on these rules and has sorta been stumbling around it with Mikami.
     
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    veteranMortal said:
    Akitisukini is more accepting of polyamory (it's kinda polynormative, I think?) than IRL.
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    Yeah, it's polynormative but in kind of a very strict way i.e., you get one (1) boy and one (1) girl and never the twain shall meet. One of the supporting characters in Castles has an arrangement with his boy and girl where they're all like... into each other in a triad which other people think is weird. Poor Akio :(
     
    Artificial Girl said:
    Yeah, it's polynormative but in kind of a very strict way i.e., you get one (1) boy and one (1) girl and never the twain shall meet. One of the supporting characters in Castles has an arrangement with his boy and girl where they're all like... into each other in a triad which other people think is weird. Poor Akio :(
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    I mean clearly the woman is a temptress who is planning on stealing his boy. Duh.
     
    i meant it more like i have not seen any hints of any sort of relationship forming.
    This is rather sudden, so without any reason to care for the girl i say no thank you.
    I'd rather focus on helping yachi.
     
    wtdtd said:
    i meant it more like i have not seen any hints of any sort of relationship forming.
    This is rather sudden, so without any reason to care for the girl i say no thank you.
    I'd rather focus on helping yachi.
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    To be clear, this is the kind of thing that might come up if you discuss it.

    What's been going on is, basically, Asuka and Mikami kinda tried to date (we see the first of those dates back before the last yachiquest) that instead just turned into a support group for The Partners Of Traumatized Soldiers. So they've been in a weird holding pattern for like two months and neither of them really know what they are to the other.

    The question is, do we want that resolved (one way or another, perhaps painfully, perhaps in a Taking Stress way) or is Asuka going to put it off and stick with the status quo for the moment.
     
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    Layout is spot-on. Boom shape is a bit odd, with the droop-wasp-waist, but lowering the engines a bit like that probably does make for easier accessibility for maintenance. On the other hand, the closer the engines are to flush with the rear wing, the easier the radiator coolant piping is. Might work out better with the aft wing moved back a touch, even to the point of being slightly behind the rear of the fuselage? I dunno.

    Edit: Thinking about CG, I think the fore wing needs to be around the middle of the fuselage, the rear wing at or slightly behind the rear of the fuselage, and the engines as close to flush with the trailing edge of the rear wing as possible. Similar engine position to blended pusher nacelles, just with a boom coming off the front to link to the fore wing. That reduces the amount of "really really far aft" weight by shifting the engines forward relative to the wings, and moves a portion of the fuselage weight ahead of the forewing to balance the rest.

    Wonder if the rudder might fit better directly off the back or upper-back of the fuselage, almost like a fish? Would have to be slightly larger, but easier to keep clear of struts and things? Edit:Wait no the radiator is sort of there. Center rear wing mounting is probably the only place it fits unless we do something really odd like a keel rudder.

    Also, a general note- IIRC the Ogre Z Alpha is a refinement of the Ogre Z, which is an extension of the Ogre, which was originally a V-4 that we figured out ran better upside-down, turning it into an inverted V-4. I think, therefore, that the Ogre Z is still an inverted V-6 design, meaning the propeller and spinner should be offset towards the top of the engine cowling, not the bottom as seen here.
     
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    [X] Right. We'll split up downtown. (The holding pattern continues)

    Let's avoid any more (potential) stress for now, I'm not sure Asuka can take it.
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    The question is, do we want that resolved (one way or another, perhaps painfully, perhaps in a Taking Stress way) or is Asuka going to put it off and stick with the status quo for the moment.
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    Want that resolved, one way or another, perhaps painfully? ...Yes. Perhaps in a Taking Stress Way? OHGODNO.

    Ugh. Leaving it to fester feels really unhealthy, but addressing it now feels even more reckless. Not sure what to vote for here.
     
    [X] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)

    Stress is very ahhhhh, atm, but we need to sort this out.
     
    [X] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)
     
    [X] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)
     
    [X] Right. We'll find an inn downtown. (Asuka and Mikami figure out what the fuck they are in a drunken conversation. May be stressful, dice will be involved.)

    SET ENGINES TO LUDICROUS GAY
     
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