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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 I worked for Rolls Royce until recently and there were still people angry about that deal with Russia - shockingly, the USSR did not pay the agreed for fees for manufacture under licence when they went ahead and built nearly 20,000 engines.
     
    I'm sorry for creating a three-way tie! That was not my intention!

    [X] Talk to General Horikoshi about the future of the Army Air Wing. (Increased influence in the Army going forward.)
    [X] Talk to Aguni Kenji (Unlocks contacts in up and coming new politicians. May limit certain political directions.)
     
    [x] Talk to General Horikoshi about the future of the Army Air Wing. (Increased influence in the Army going forward.)
    [x] Talk to Matsuno Hokichi (Unlocks industrial contacts to exploit during the next Politics turn for wealth and influence.)
     
    ... Goddamnit now I'm feeding chunks of text into the neural network and its adapting very well. This is so cool!

    It even knows when it's smut, and I gotta say it's even filthier than I am.

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    open_sketch said:
    ... Goddamnit now I'm feeding chunks of text into the neural network and its adapting very well. This is so cool!

    It even knows when it's smut, and I gotta say it's even filthier than I am.
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    It's a really neat thing, though it shouldn't be adapting. The version that's ran on the website is static, it doesn't learn from input, just uses it to extend the text. Things that learn from user input on the internet tend to become racist in short order.
     
    Either that, or they just become incredibly good at guessing which character you're thinking of.
    I wonder if Akinator knows who Matsura Asuka is...
    :p
    Edit: He did not.
     
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    • ... alright i know i said i wouldn't ever but i did and i'm sorry.

    if you click this link it will take you to a google doc with an expanded version of the first scene from the last update. it's...

    it's NSFW, and sex happens in it, but i would not call it "smut". it's nothing like the scenes in whispers or the one in castles. there's no kink, it's barely explicit, it's not supposed to be hot.

    I'm so sorry.
     
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    • "Matsura, good to see you!" Mr Ohara strode out from across the hall, smiling broadly. He looked you over quickly and nodded approvingly. "I'm glad you made it before the rain. And it's nice to see you again, Arita."

    "Thank you, sir." Yachi replied.

    "You've just arrived, then?" He asked.

    "Yessir. A few minutes ago. Still getting our bearings." You replied.

    "It's a big room with some big people. Now, politeness dictates you meet with the General and his wife at some point, and I recommend you don't delay on that." He explained. Satomi and Coralie were already making a beeline in his direction.

    "I'd planned on it." You said. Getting to talk with the general behind the Army Air Wing was a top priority today: there was perhaps no man in the entire country more important to your work then him.

    "Good. Right, I need to get back to my conversation with Mrs. Hawkins. I trust you, but... please be mindful." He said, turning on his heel to find the Albian woman, and you sighed.

    "I'd have to try pretty hard to mess it up more than the last one." You muttered. Yachi chuckled under his breathe.

    "I don't think there's much of a risk of that today." He said, then indicated to the General. Satomi and Coralie were bowing and moving on, and you decided it might be a good idea to move now before somebody else got the same idea. You put on your best stoic face, took a deep breath, and started across the floor, Yachi close by your side.

    People stared. More than a few. Westerners at you, your countrymen at the two of you together. It was... not pleasant.

    You repeated the mantra in your head as you crossed the floor. You weren't doing anything wrong.

    You made it the General. General Horikoshi was somewhere in his sixties, with big wire glasses and a gaunt face that looked like worn leather. Still, he was animated and active like a man half his age, and his eyes lit up in recognition of the both of you as you approached. You exchanged bows and you handed over your cards quickly, not that it was terribly necessarily.

    "We were quite happy to accommodate Ohara's request to have the two of you here. Our country owes you both a debt. As does my career." He said, the hint of a smile at the last comment. "This is my wife, Chiyuri. Chiyuri, this is Arita Yachi, our best pilot from the war, and this is Matsura Asuka. They designed most of the airplanes the army used."

    "Thank you, sir. Ma'am." You said quickly, nearly in unison. You weren't really sure on the rules there.

    "So, Aira, how's civilian life treating you?" The general asked, and Yachi started in on a sanitized summary of his last two months. Mrs. Horikoshi was off talking to the wife of another general who was hanging around, so you took a moment to steady yourself before the conversation turned to you.

    "Matsura, Ohara was talking about a new transport aircraft? Ten passengers, I believe?" He asked.

    "Yessir. It can make a hop to Joseon as well." You said.

    "Wish we had that during the war. Would have made some of those planning meetings easier. I'm glad to see the company weathering peacetime so well." He said.

    "I won't relax properly until the first tickets are sold, sir." You explained, and that got a small smile from him.

    "You sound just like your boss. I hope it works out, I'd love to see what the next generation of Ohara masterpieces looks like, if I make it that far."

    You caught, though it was brief and nearly imperceptible, the annoyed glance that Mrs. Horikoshi threw back at her husband. Probably a bit of sore subject.

    "Well, we're all waiting on that report, of course." You said. "I'm a little eager to get started myself." That was a bit of a fiction, as you were quite glad to work on civilian designs for the time being.

    "That thing is going to take an age, Matsura. I sign a hundred papers before noon about that report, and I can already tell you what's going to be in it. The R1A was great, we just needed more of them in the air, the B1M1 won us the war and we'd be most of the way to the Kremlin if they'd been fifty kilometers an hour faster, and we're going to keep buying Pit Vipers as long as Akibara keeps driving the cost down because it makes the ladies in accounting happy." He said wearily.

    Holy shit. You just got a summary of the most important document for your industry in the next... five years, probably, right here. You needed to go to more of these parties!

    "I'm sure they're doing important work, but thank you for the insight." You said.

    "If I had my way, the report would consist entirely of one sheet of paper. We captured many Caspian records during the encirclement, and one of them was a ledger of written-off equipment over a three-month period and the causes. Had some of the boys calculate it out, and they said that a kilo of bomb from a B1M1 was worth somewhere between sixty and four hundred kilos of artillery shells when it came to material damage." He said. "I realize that the conditions were incredibly favorable, with the bottleneck and all, but if they give me that paper and send me into the Diet with it, I'll make your boss so rich he'll buy a nice island chain for his retirement. Maybe one of those ones with the hulu dancers."

    Not that he'd appreciate that part, you thought. It was the principle that counted.

    "The top speed of the dive bomber was among my greatest regrets of the war, sir." You said truthfully. It got a lot of pilots killed, a literal sitting duck. There was just never time in the engineering room to retool them for Ogre Zs or any other large engines. It was second only to the Dragonfly's danger to its crews.

    "War always comes with a lot of regrets." The general said wearily. Yachi had said that the April Offensive was launched in large part because of the perceived effectiveness of the early Duck raids, which meant that General Horikoshi had almost certainly signed off on it. "Still, I'd expect that the first contract the Army puts out will be for a new dive bomber."

    "I look forward to the day." You said. The two of you exchanged a few more works, but then it was time to shuffle on, as other guests were waiting to greet the host. You did come away with a business card listing the contact information of his office, though: you could probably have gotten that information through Mr. Ohara, but him giving you it was in a sense permission to use that information.

    You came away feeling a little overwhelmed, like you'd just gotten a glimpse into the future. Surely the Akibara crew already had this information, but if they didn't... you didn't have to share anything anymore. Okumura would be so mad, and the thought of it filled you with glee.

    You met back up with Satomi and Coralie a few minutes later, familiar faces in the crowd, and the four of you talked briefly while deciding where to go next. Coralie had run into another Gallian, some businessman, and he'd shot her a sneer that was, in an environment like this, probably as dire as insults got.

    "I've never been a party quite this high class, but if he had done that in my country, we had... ways of sorting that out." She said, shaking her head.

    "Dear, think about this a moment. That's why you're here." Satomi said, clearly a little exasperated.

    "I'm aware, but considering how well that's worked out for me thus far, that is not the deterrent you think it is. Besides, I've been practicing with the local variety of military sword, and I must say it would be quite entertaining to bring one to a duel." Coralie said, relishing the thought. The image of her chopping through one of those wire-thin Gallian swords was pretty entertaining, but there was a problem.

    "Dueling is punishable by death here, Coralie. You shouldn't even joke about it." You said quietly. She sighed, but let the matter drop.

    You didn't need anyone losing a hand here today.

    The group split apart again, Satomi and Coralie off to talk to some politician about pay equality stuff, and you and Yachi headed off towards Matsuno Hokichi. Matsuno Works was the biggest construction company in the country, maybe the world with the monopoly it had, and when you were a child you used to watch the rail workers moving through town laying the railway that turned the place from a rural backwater into the growing community it was when you left... seven years ago. You wondered what it was like now.

    Matsuno was a short, slight man, dressed in a suit that, you guess from your limited research, was in the New Alleghany style rather than the more typical Europan set. You'd heard he had a lot of New Alleghany advisers when he put together his businesses, and considering the money he'd made...

    You exchanged cards and pleasantries, and Yachi's presence made a big difference, as he'd been immediately recognized. That gave you the credibility to steer the topic toward finance, and that lead to a very interesting exchange. You'd started talking to him about the future of cars in the country, hunting for investment advice, and that took a turn to road infrastructure, and then...

    "... since we're doing a lot of roadwork these days, mostly on behest of the Imperial Post, you know? Trains can't go everywhere, so wagons and foot carriers make up a big chunk of business, and with the current plan is to motorize the delivery to and from post offices by 1920..."

    Yachi looked briefly confused, so you leaned to him.

    "Eight years, 2546." You said quickly.

    "In the old calendar, yes." Matsuno said. "Anyway, you see the pressure to get decent roads between those points. Problem is, there's a lot of routes where it costs more than it's worth to carve a road. Especially down south or in the more mountainous areas where it's mostly just, you know, natural paths in the dirt that wash away every rainy season."

    "Say, have you thought about airplanes?" You asked. It was your field, after all.

    "Sorry, how do you mean?"

    "Air mail. They do it in New Alleghany." In a small capacity, but they did. There were private companies operating short hop services moving mail in places where roadwork wasn't getting done, mostly in the mountainous bits in the west. Usually flying some of those ultra-light Sears Runabouts, which had been in productive for a few years now. Fifty horsepower wasn't a lot, but it was enough to move a pilot and a bag of mail, and they'd started getting pretty affordable. "You could have a flight every week, or every other week, between the collection center at the rail line and the offices."

    "I can't imagine that'd be economical." He said, but you did some literal napkin math for him and he looked convinced.

    "Well... I have some interesting topics for my meeting with the Postmaster next week! What sort of planes would we be looking at?"

    "Well... there was this design called the T1M2 during the war..."

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    Things were starting to go quite alright, with a tidy bit of business handled so far. What next?

    [ ] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)​
    [ ] Actually, one last conversation...​
    ​
    Because of some confusion on the last vote, I'm letting you guys take a swing at deciding if you want a third conversation now. There will be a social roll accompanying it, and you should write in under the vote who you want to talk to from the last update.​
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    If "Actually One Last Conversation" wins, I'll use the most popular write-in.​
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    Otherwise, Asuka will move on to the fun parts of being at a party and we'll head for the end of the routine, the future of the airliner, and the glider test.​
     
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    • That all went pretty well! The next most desirable contact would be a foreigner, and risking a social roll on that seems quite iffy.

    [X] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)
     
    [X] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)

    Things have gone well enough so far and this party is as much a trial run as anything - let's not take the risk of screwing it up now. Especially not while still hovering at 5 Stress.
     
    I have to admit, I'm glad that the choices which won did. There's a lot of stress even just reading about hostile interactions which I was kind of worried about Asuka running into facefirst, and being able to talk to one guy who goes "your plane literally won us the war, have some insider tips" and another who says "this is sharp stuff and I'm going to see if I can use it to build a better national mail network" made for a really positive experience on the reader side as well as, I hope, in Asuka's head. It makes me (and hopefully our intrepid aircraft designer) more willing to go to high-class parties by seeing the first one turn out like this. Even if future parties have things turn sour it sets a baseline for what things can and should be like.

    [X] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)

    Time to keep the good times rolling, then. I'm not at all inclined to risk a failed social roll and we could certainly use the stress loss.
     
    [x] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)

    Stress is stressful. Let's not push anything.
     
    open_sketch said:
    Usually flying some of those ultra-light Sears Runabouts, which had been in productive for a few years now.
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    Hey! The Wills Model B is a perfectly serviceable mailplane, as you well know. Or would, if I could manage to unscramble my computer long enough to update Barnstormer Quest. :(

    [X] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)
     
    DarkLight140 said:
    I have to admit, I'm glad that the choices which won did. There's a lot of stress even just reading about hostile interactions which I was kind of worried about Asuka running into facefirst, and being able to talk to one guy who goes "your plane literally won us the war, have some insider tips" and another who says "this is sharp stuff and I'm going to see if I can use it to build a better national mail network" made for a really positive experience on the reader side as well as, I hope, in Asuka's head. It makes me (and hopefully our intrepid aircraft designer) more willing to go to high-class parties by seeing the first one turn out like this. Even if future parties have things turn sour it sets a baseline for what things can and should be like.
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    So much this.


    [x] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)
     
    After so long of trying to get by on just 'what you do', and constantly being screwed over by 'who they know', it's nice to see Asuka finally being able to complement their capabilities with connections.
    So long as it doesn't reach Akibara and the Navies extremes, of course. Asuka would WANT to compete against other brilliant designers, not stifle them through backroom dealings.
     
    [X] Relax! It's a party, isn't it? (Start in on some fancy-people vices!)

    Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we take another crack at the dive bomber concept!
     
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