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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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    • FrangibleCover said:
    What I'm thinking about for this one is making it incredibly cheap. Aviation for the masses! Budding engineers and pilots don't have to build their own rickety sister-maiming contraptions because if you save up for a few birthdays you can get an Ohara Glider. Schools have them. People do flight experience days where you can rent an hour in a glider with an experienced pilot. The Army trains you on one and then just gives it to you so you can keep up flight training on leave and everyone can stop trying to sneak their beaus onto base for illicit airborne nookie.
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    Not that cheap, and it'll be kinda fragile, but since we just have the pilot, co-pilot, and very small frame, we can keep it to MP1, which means we can use the fun flaps and retractable landing gear. Engines are heavy and expensive, fuel is heavy, and guns are both heavy and expensive.

    Rules are getting revised, and I'll need to rebuild my plane sheet again. We'll probably wind up using bracing and wires to boost strain, but... I think I can do this for 5 money, with the fancy flaps.

    E: Six money if you want the fancy flaps, which it doesn't really need, or also six money if you want it to have a max strain of 21, seven money for both
    Which isn't exactly chump change, but is just under half the budget for the Desk, and has some pretty advanced features like dual controls, super-duper flaps, and retractable landing gear. But it can fly for five money.
     
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    So interestingly, according to some people I know in the Canadian Air Force (okay literally two people, but one of them was a professor at my university who was a glider instructor in the CAF for awhile) if you train on gliders to start, you get a lot of really important skills in the fundamentals of flying, control, and aircraft handling. You get a lot of experience understanding how to handle different scenarios and understand the connection between you and the plane. Lots of stuff with energy management and how to make sure you're eeking every little bit of performance out of the aircraft that you can. Obviously, I don't have any first hand experience here, and there's a lot of commentary and fighting that happens in Real Life, but I thought it was a neat anecdote.
     
    FrangibleCover said:
    In purchasing power terms, how much is one money? I know what a Thaler buys but this quest doesn't use Thalers exactly.
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    open_sketchbook said:
    In regular Flying Circus, there's a trade coin called a Thaler that's used for pricing. Here, we're instead going to use 円 to represent about fifty thousand yen. If I say yen or use ¥, I mean one of those. If I use 円, I mean a fifty thousand of them. I'll only use 円 for plane design and other large business things.
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    there you go.
     
    Great, what does 50,000 1910s Yen buy me? It feels like a hell of a lot more money than a Thaler. Some website claims that for Japanese Yen it's broadly equivalent to half a million dollars today in purchasing power terms, or even more than that using precious metal standards.
     
    FrangibleCover said:
    Great, what does 50,000 1910s Yen buy me? It feels like a hell of a lot more money than a Thaler. Some website claims that for Japanese Yen it's broadly equivalent to half a million dollars today in purchasing power terms, or even more than that using precious metal standards.
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    At the time of the race, we made 15 000 yen/year.

    open_sketchbook said:
    Your ticket with the bookie. £14 pounds and change at 72-1 odds. Your brain produced £1008, plus change, and you grinned to yourself. You made about 15,000 yen a year, but foreign money was worth a lot more, so that was a tidy sum.
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    Right, and we're a fairly highly paid professional with a university education.

    In short there is no damn way to make anything cheap enough to get out there as I envisaged, because a cockpit costs as much as a member of the lower middle classes makes in a decade. Capitalism ruins everything again!
     
    FrangibleCover said:
    Right, and we're a fairly highly paid professional with a university education.

    In short there is no damn way to make anything cheap enough to get out there as I envisaged, because a cockpit costs as much as a member of the lower middle classes makes in a decade. Capitalism ruins everything again!
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    Not to stop you from cursing capitalism, but if it's that expensive then there's no way that the average person would be able to get one in a more fair economic system either. Sometimes things are just too expensive for the common man.
     
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  • Sidestory
    • Some frankness about some of the weirder and more uncomfortable portions of Akitsukuni's gender and sexuality dynamics come up. Also, Satomi says some incredible lewd shit at one point for humour value.

    It was then, lying together, staring at the ceiling, too excited to sleep and too tired to do anything else anymore, that the conversation turned serious. Not the sort of serious of hushed toned and hurt, but the sort where one felt liberated to say whatever was on her mind.

    "What now?" Satomi asked.

    "We curl up, we sleep, we face tomorrow together." Coralie replied. She'd given up smoking in her first months here, out of sheer spite for her preferred brand being across the sea, but right now she wanted a cigarette so very badly.

    "I really don't wanna sleep." Satomi said, fiddling with one of the bracelets they'd been given. "This feels too big for my wrist. Urgh."

    "We can get it adjusted." Coralie said quietly, pulling herself up closer to her wife. "You shouldn't be worrying about that right now."

    "You're supposed to be able to switch them. It belongs to us, not me." Satomi said, frowning. Coralie's good arm wrapped around her.

    "Then we'll remove a toggle from both so you can tie it tighter." She said. "Or we leave it. It can belong to you, and you can belong to me, and that way it'll belong to us."

    Satomi practically melted in her arms. The Gallian language seemed to have that effect on women the world over.

    "Fine, fine. You got me." She shuffled over a little to drop the bracelet in the pile of others next to the futon. "I'm just worrying."

    "What do we have to worry about? The time for anxiety is over. Now, we settle in for fifty or so years of domestic bliss, God willing. Barring whatever exciting excursions we devise along the way, of course."

    "Excursions?"

    "For one, travel, I hope, once I stabilize my income here. I've given thought to your friend's suggestions and I am considering tutoring in my language: I have heard the debased version your engineer friends speak and I shan't stand for it infecting a new generation."

    "That bad?"

    "I have heard less atrocious accents from Gallic Stadacona." She said simply, as though that meant something to Satomi. "They have turned the language of love into the language of technicians!"

    "Alright, alright. But where were you thinking of travelling?" Satomi asked, trying to shuffle things along. Her difficulties with Gallian were something of a sore point.

    "I have been in this country for the better part of a year and I have seen only the capital and some dreary port cities, for starters. We should take to the railways and see it end to end, at the very least. Then perhaps the colonies!"

    "That's a lot of exploring." Satomi said. She'd never seen the appeal: Tokei had the best roads, the best drinks, and the best girls. What else did she need?

    "We have a lifetime! And perhaps if things settle in my home country, I can take you there on one of the boche's balloons?"

    "... do you think that'd be alright? Two women, travelling the continent together?" Given the things she'd heard about Europan attitudes towards race and sexuality, things she'd had to confront in Coralie for the last few months, she was understandably nervous.

    "Well, you may have to be my dear friend from the Orient, but I don't see it being too much of a problem. Once the Gallian flag flies over Dyskeland's capital, we can tour the continent end to end with no bothersome stops, I should think."

    There was an awkward quiet as Coralie's boast crossed close to another sensitive subject, but to her credit, she picked up on it.

    "I shall have nothing to do with that flag raising, you know that. Or rather, if I do, it shall be wearing the blue of my adopted home. God knows they don't seem to want me back." She smiled. To think, a Gallian soldier, wearing blue? Absurd.

    "Is that what the letter you got was about?" Satomi asked quietly. Coralie nodded.

    "My mother. She thinks I am a disgrace, and it is a widely-shared opinion. My last visit to the consulate, they threatened to revoke my citizenship. They can't do such a thing, of course, I haven't even broken any laws, but Gallia seems to have found a kinship with Caspia in defeat they never possessed beforehand."

    "I'm sorry." Satomi said.

    "It is no matter. My next letter to her shall contain a copy of our wedding photos." Coralie said brightly. "I will return when the time is right, and I'll bring you with me."

    "I'd like that." Satomi said. "Let's hope the time is right soon, then. I have a feeling your future husband might not be too keen on the two of us leaving for months on end."

    "... future husband?" Coralie said. She knew about Akitsukuni's particularities, but she thought she had made it clear she had no interest in such things. "I thought we already had this conversation."

    "We did, but then you mentioned kids the other day..." Satomi said uncertainly. "I figured you changed your mind."

    "Heavens no. I have eyes for you and you alone, you know this. A sentence I don't think could have believed I would ever say two years ago, but here we are. I was thinking... uh... my grasp of the language is failing me. Adoption, do you know this word?"

    Satomi shook her head.

    "When become the parents to a child without any? An... orphan?" Coralie was struggling at the end of her vocabulary. "You know how I mean?"

    Satomi frowned. There was all kinds of problems with this.

    "That's not a thing that happens." She said simply. The concept was so bizarre to her that she was having trouble articulating the particulars. "And why would we? If you want children, that's what a man is for. Like... in this situation, if you don't want a husband to boss you around all the time, you get married to some gay guy in the same situation to make it official, and then you have a happy child with two parents and their partners to dote on them. But even then, you don't have to. You like men."

    "The idea of marrying two people is... it is..."

    "Like marrying a woman?" Satomi suggested coyly.

    "Stranger! Invalidates the purpose of the ceremony. You might do it differently, but today was about my heart, belonging to you, forever." Coralie said insistently.

    "Alright. Well, that's not how it works here, and if you don't want to do it, I guess I could." Satomi said.

    "Satomi, my dear, I know you well enough to know you have no such desire. I think if a man touched you, it would burn the both of you. Like... a vampire and holy water."

    "It wasn't that bad." Satomi said, though her face said otherwise. Coralie perked up.

    "Now this I never knew. You were with a man once?" She laughed. "Why, I was led to believe you were a virgin! I shall wire the pentarchy and have the marriage annuled at once!" Satomi laughed too, though she didn't really understand. Sometimes the way a person says something is funny enough, especially when you love them.

    As the laughter trailed off, a dark thought floated across Coralie's mind that Satomi might mean Sei, perhaps before her transition, but her rational brain squished it down. She knew now that that wasn't how it worked.

    "Once! Okay, it was terrible. I was dumb and young and was like... but am I really gay?"

    "I feel there is no possibility that you didn't already know the answer to this question." Coralie said. The two of them had shared their romantic histories, and Satomi had been crushing on girls for as long as she could remember. It made Coralie jealous, to be honest: she was nineteen before she was even aware of her own preferences in that regard, and it took two more years before she worked up the courage to do anything about it. She simply hadn't been given the space to think about it, until she'd seen two older women share a discreet kiss on Bastille Day while she'd been marching in the military parade, and it had set her mind turning on it.

    "I mean, obviously, I knew. But my parents were insistent I should at least give a man a shot so it wasn't just on my brother to carry on the family, and, you know, they say anyone has the capacity to love anyone, if fate lines up..." Satomi started.

    "That's a strange and obviously untrue saying. Go on." Of course, had you asked her a year ago, Coralie's worldview was that everyone was probably bisexual and maybe just repressed like she had been. It had taken meeting openly gay people to admit that maybe straight people existed too.

    "... right, so I let my mum arrange me a date with a college boy. He was like, a law student or something? Anyway, date was boring, I knew it was a mistake from minute one, and the sex was..." She shuddered. "Yeah, I still don't know what you see in boys. Urgh. Anyway, I told him, no offense but turns out I'm real gay, and he dropped me back home and I took a four-hour bath."

    "That sounds awful." Coralie said, genuinely concerned. "Your parents pressured you into this?"

    "Not really. It was just the thing to do, I guess. It's like... Spirits, I've been on the other side of that once too. Went on a date with this girl and... well, I was two knuckles deep when she decided that she was straight after all." Satomi blew right past Coralie's shock at her frankness and the absurd laughter it produced. "What? It happens."

    "God, I shouldn't laugh, it's really not funny." Coralie gasped, wiping away tears of mirth. "It's awful!"

    "Nah, it ain't so bad. At least it wasn't that... what was he? Artillery captain?"

    "Him! If nothing else, I am glad I left him a continent away!"

    The two laughed some more, settling close to one another. There were so many other things to talk about, but a silence had settled over them. They had a whole lifetime to talk, after all. They could wait till morning.
     
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    • open_sketchbook said:
    "That's a strange and obviously untrue saying. Go on." Of course, had you asked her a year ago, Coralie's worldview was that everyone was probably bisexual and maybe just repressed like she had been. It had taken meeting openly gay people to admit that maybe straight people existed too.
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    Well, relatable.

    open_sketchbook said:
    As the laughter trailed off, a dark thought floated across Coralie's mind that Satomi might be Sei, perhaps before her transition, but her rational brain squished it down. She knew now that that wasn't how it worked.
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    I feel frazzled and dumb but I don't get this?
     
    Axslashel said:
    So adoptions in Akitsukuni is not a thing? Is there any special reason?
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    If your parents die, it falls on your extended family to take care of you. Failing that, religious institutions: some shrines take care of orphans, and churches are glad to take in kids they can raise to believe in God and Joshua and act as missionaries. Much as with real Japan, adoptions are primarily of adult men by adult men for Business Reasons.

    The only time couples adopt is straight couples when infertility is an issue for whatever reason.

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    I feel frazzled and dumb but I don't get this?
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    Coralie knows that Satomi and Uyeno Sei (the trans woman who works as an engineer at Ohara) dated once, but she doesn't know much details. The first place her mind went with "Satomi was with a man once" was to Uyeno, unfortunately, both in the least charitable way and in the "maybe before she transitioned" way. She squishes these thoughts though: she's changed a lot since the day she arrived.

    And of course, Satomi wouldn't think that way ever, regardless of where Uyeno might be in her transition when they dated (which was not far along, not that it matters.)
     
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    open_sketchbook said:
    "I have heard less atrocious accents from Gallic Stadacona."
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    bruits d'érable en colère
    open_sketchbook said:
    "Well, you may have to be my dear friend from the Orient, but I don't see it being too much of a problem. Once the Gallian flag flies over Dyskeland's capital, we can tour the continent end to end with no bothersome stops, I should think."
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    Tabernak d'calice d'Christ à vélo!
    FrangibleCover said:
    Lovely wee update. Interesting that the Gallian Ichthyians have a Pentarchate like in Orthodox Christianity.
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    Latitudinarians. Objectionist* denominations have their own thing(s). And it gets weirder, rather than Eastern Orthodox, it's Eastern Orthoprax

    -*Angry maple noises*
    -"Fucking Jesus Joshua H. Christ on a bike!"
    *Blatantly stolen from 7th Sea, not to be confused with objectivist
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    Coralie knows that Satomi and Uyeno Sei (the trans woman who works as an engineer at Ohara) dated once, but she doesn't know much details. The first place her mind went with "Satomi was with a man once" was to Uyeno, unfortunately, both in the least charitable way and in the "maybe before she transitioned" way. She squishes these thoughts though: she's changed a lot since the day she arrived.

    And of course, Satomi wouldn't think that way ever, regardless of where Uyeno might be in her transition when they dated (which was not far along, not that it matters.)
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    I think there's a word missing in the sentence. As it's written now, it implies that Satomi and Sei are the same person.
     
    Updated Plane Design Rules + Glider Time
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    • Hey its the updated Plane Design Rules!!!!

    Basically with the help of @FrangibleCover i eliminated the bullshit Cornering Speed nonsense and instead introduced two new and much more simple ingame stats. Also, the tandem wing bullshit is fixed!!!!

    Get making gliders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Akso i may have written a smutty prelude to the previous sidestory somebody throw me in the trash.
     
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    • Dove Mk.I*
    A quiet aircraft for a peaceful world.
    Part 円 Mass Drag Structure Strain Frame Other
    CREW              
    Pilot, Open   1 3     -1 +2 Bail Out
    Copilot, Open   1 3     -1 +2 Bail Out
    +Copilot Controls 1          
    +3 Authority
    -1 Flight Stress
    ENGINES              

    Haw, no     		             
    COVERING & FRAME              
    Strut Core       15      

    Struts and Wire x5     		  5   10   5  
    Treated Paper x5   -5 10        
    Internal Bracing   5   10      
    Long Tail           -3 +3 PSTAB
    WINGS              

    Aft, Mid
    8m Span, 9m2​ Area     		    1  
    -8.5     		   

    Covering: Treated Paper     		    -2.25        
    Longest Wing Effects             0 Authority
    Total Wing Area Drag     4.5        
    STABILIZERS              
    Canard Horizontal Stabilizer             -3 PSTAB
    Vertical Stabilizer              
    CONTROL SURFACES              
    Ailerons: Default              
    Rudder: Default              
    Elevator: Default              
    REINFORCEMENT              
    Wing Truss x2 2   12       50 Tension
    Wires     5   50    
    LOAD              
    Try not to wear heavy boots              

    UPGRADES​
    		              

    Roll Bar     		  2         +3 Crash Safety
    LANDING GEAR              
    Retractable Gear 0.5 0.5         lol it's free
                   
    TOTAL 3 6 39 50 41    
    Stability 0, Max Strain 40, Toughness 18, Handling 99, Stall 2, Flight Stress 0
    • Price: 3円
    • Payload: 2 Crew
    • Performance: 20kph stall, 5 Retention, 1 Sustain
      • With one Streamlining optimization: No change
      • With one Lightening optimization: No change
    • Pro: Cheap, highly structurally sound, zero flight stress for easy flying, cheap, requires minimal skill or tooling to produce and maintain, good crash characteristics, cheap, similar layout to Duck creates training synergy and helps familiarise some old pilots, did I mention how cheap it was.
    • Con: Poor retention seriously inhibits ability to climb, may be unable to execute go-around.
    (Thanks for unwittingly aiding layout, brmj)
     
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    Dove Single Seater
    You know what this thing needs? Cheaper.
    Part 円 Mass Drag Structure Strain Frame Other
    CREW              
    Pilot, Open   1 3     -1 +2 Bail Out
    ENGINES              

    Haw, no     		             
    COVERING & FRAME              
    Strut Core       15      

    Struts and Wire x4     		  4   8   4  
    Treated Paper x4   -4 10        
    Internal Bracing   4   8      
    Long Tail           -3 +3 PSTAB
    WINGS              

    Aft, Mid
    8m Span, 9m2​ Area     		    1  
    -8.5     		   

    Covering: Treated Paper     		    -2.25        
    Longest Wing Effects             0 Authority
    Total Wing Area Drag     4.5        
    STABILIZERS              
    Canard Horizontal Stabilizer             -3 PSTAB
    Vertical Stabilizer              
    CONTROL SURFACES              
    Ailerons: Default              
    Rudder: Default              
    Elevator: Default              
    REINFORCEMENT              
    Wing Truss x2 2   12       50 Tension
    Wires     5   50    
    LOAD              
    Try not to wear heavy boots              

    UPGRADES​
    		              

    Roll Bar     		  2         +3 Crash Safety
    LANDING GEAR              
    Wheels     1        
                   
    TOTAL 3 6 40 50 41    
    Stability 0, Max Strain 31, Toughness 8, Handling 99, Stall 2, Flight Stress 1
    • Price: 2円
    • Payload: 1 Crew
    • Performance: 20kph stall, 5 Retention, 1 Sustain
      • With one Streamlining optimization: No change
      • With one Lightening optimization: No change
    • Pro: Cheap, structurally sound, cheap, requires minimal skill or tooling to produce and maintain, cheap,good crash characteristics, did I mention how cheap it was.
    • Con: Poor retention seriously inhibits ability to climb, may be unable to execute go-around, not really significantly better than the original but I did this because someone would ask if it could be cheaper and this is it. This is as cheap as you can make a safe aircraft in Flying Circus. I can go one cheaper at the cost of the wings falling off if you screw up.
     
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