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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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    • [X] Engine (Give an RPM reroll)

    This is gonna be super exciting. Will we be at the airfield the whole time awaiting telegrams from the destination field? Will there be any watchers reporting back along the railroad lines partway?
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    Your inspections have granted the rotary engine, lifting body, and pulsejet development for your next plane!
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    Of the three, the rotary engine is probably the biggest one to have available at this point in time. That said, I would like to reiterate Sturmi's sentiment on the monocoque body. Someone managing to make one this early in the game is kinda terrifying. Did Kawamura make a note of what they built their aircraft out of?

    [X] Engine (Give an RPM reroll)
     
    Himmelhand said:
    [X] Engine (Give an RPM reroll)

    This is gonna be super exciting. Will we be at the airfield the whole time awaiting telegrams from the destination field? Will there be any watchers reporting back along the railroad lines partway?
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    The sponsors of the race have set up a radio so if you are on the water or in a train Asuka will know when the first plane touches down!

    Of course, you players will know before them...
     
    [X] Structure (Give a one-time immunity to overspeed)

    I'm actually more worried about the plane coming apart due to being flown flat-out at the highest speed we can manage for extended periods of time. Our win condition here is likely to be "slow pretty darn fast and steady wins the race." The serious contenders who threaten us (e.g. the Albian and Gallian designs) are mostly physically smaller aircraft that will likely have to stop once or more for fuel during the race. To win, we need to cruise at the highest practical speed for the longest practical time, exploiting our streamlining and large fuselage(s) to be fuel-efficient.

    I am LESS worried about us having to rev the engine too hard and more worried about breakup.
     
    Okay, so if I'm understanding the rules correctly, RPM shouldn't actually be a big concern - Satomi won't be getting into any dogfights, so she should be able to safely Check Instruments regularly, as I don't think a quick glance away will make her lose track of the entire race. I have much less experience/understanding of this system than some others in this thread, but for now, I'm gonna go with my read (plus Simon has some good points on this front).

    [X] Structure (Give a one-time immunity to overspeed)
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    Your inspections have granted the rotary engine, lifting body, and pulsejet development for your next plane!
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    And pulsejets. Pulsejets are cool, and lifting bodies can be useful for larger planes. (Last I checked, which may be outdated, lifting body multiplied Wing Area by 1.5. Which means that a 4 Area biplane or monoplane suddenly has 6 area, and a 12 area heavy bomber has 18 wing area, which, as I have said before, forgives a multitude of sins, especially when coupled with powerful engines.)

    Also pretty sure we don't need to worry about the Cathay design. I just hope the pilot survives.
    Decim said:
    Someone managing to make one this early in the game is kinda terrifying.
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    They are also ungodly expensive. The airframe of their plane alone probably costs more than the Double Sparrow does. Monocoque is great if you've got a skin that's got more of an effect than canvas, though. So it is something to potentially look into for future developments.

    [X] Engine (Give an RPM reroll)

    We'd only hit overspeed if Satomi needs to do a sudden dive while flying at top speed. On the other hand, RPM reroll increases our odds of being able to do the race non-stop. Even if we don't place first, the fact that we covered the 350 kilometers in one go will be impressive and have us lauded around the world. Assuming that refueling/repair stops for other planes total ~30 minutes, they'd need an average speed of over 230 kph. Every minute that Satomi can spend in the air that other planes can't? That's three kilometers that she has over other planes.
     
    Decim said:
    Of the three, the rotary engine is probably the biggest one to have available at this point in time. That said, I would like to reiterate Sturmi's sentiment on the monocoque body. Someone managing to make one this early in the game is kinda terrifying. Did Kawamura make a note of what they built their aircraft out of?
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    Actually, if we're in the era of aviation history when speed records first exceeded 150 km/hr, as earlier updates imply...

    This plane incorporated both monocoque wooden construction and a rotary engine, and historically set all the world speed records in the general range our racing plane flies at. To the point where I was seriously concerned that we'd encounter this specific plane or one much like it.
     
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    3-3 - BE THE SATOMI. FLY THE PLANE
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    • [X] Engine (Give an RPM reroll)

    You an Kibe took one last look over the engines as Satomi climbed into the cockpit, paying particularly attention to the Beast and making sure everything was snug and secure, then you started noticing everyone but the ground crew and pilots clearing the field. It was time to go. You retreated to a safe distance, watching your little blue plane with anticipation. The official, some big newspaper owner, was stepping out with his pistol. It was about to begin.

    Nothing to do now but watch the start and follow the racers. It was all out of your hands now.

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    It was all in your hands now.

    Matsura and Kibe did a final check on the Beast and closed it up, retreating from the field. You pulled your flight goggles down and moved the controls experimentally. Ailerons good, rudder good, elevators good. The cockpit was small and snug, with your head ducked behind the slightly blurred wingscreen. You had a compass balanced on your knee and an anemometer on the center wing. Engine number 1's RPM gauge was in your dashboard, while the second RPM meter was mounted inside the second hull, a larger dial just in case. Your altimeter and a simple level were both mounted just above the magneto switches. You had a flight stick with a forked grip for both hands, the throttle on the left fork a simple lever and a blip switch resting under your right thumb. Below was a simple bar for rudder control, wrapped in rope for traction.

    You looked over the field of your competitors. Great Caspia's prince, in his ridiculous yellow and black flight suit, sneered at you under his stupid little moustache before climbing ungracefully under his plane. The Cathay crews were standing by with a torch by the back of their engine; you were glad you weren't anywhere near behind it. There was that amazing little orange plane, the engineer swirling its propeller and engine around. You caught sight of Coralie looking back from her own cockpit, and her smile when she saw you set her heart aflutter.

    "Do your best!" You called out to her.

    She cried back, "Bon chance!" Whatever that meant, you knew she meant it. Urgh why weren't there any gay westerners what kind of nightmare continent was this.

    Then, there was the crack of the starting gun. Your ground crews gripped the propellers. "Contact!" They chanted in unison as they swung the propellers.

    On the third turn, you yelled out "SWITCH ON!" and they pulled with full force.

    Roll 2 d10s for engines 1 and 2.​
     
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