Bound to Earth: A CK2 Earthbound Quest in an 8-bit Dystopia

[X] Kyoko

Find it kind funny how CD looks like Aubrey from omori, and now due to a accident that happened in the family (Even if the main cause of said accident is supernatural stuff) she's basically pulling a sunny and just spends time in this dream world to not have to deal with the stuff happening in the real world.

But that's also kind of extremely bad as last thing we need is for her to not want to leave that dream world. Or even worse to an extent, create her own conscious being in her dreams like Sunny did with omori.
 
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I do believe we just took a brief jaunt through Magicant. Neat! If we can figure out how to make use of it, that could give us a big power boost.

Also, yikes. Things are coming to a head much faster than I think we all anticipated. If we hadn't gotten the crit, things would be boiling over right now. Going forward, I think we need to assume that all out war between the cops and sharks could happen any turn now, maybe even this next turn. We may need to take some drastic action this turn.

[X] Kyoko

Gonna need someone who can side-scroller their way through the arcade. And I don't think Mr. B is going anywhere. I mean, we're squatting in his treehouse.
 
OK...Jesus Christ...Yeah, uh, we rolled great, no complaints there, but, um...Good god. Yeah, next turn, it's time to look into the cops, talk to the Sharks, and do whatever else we can to prevent an all out war. Also, naturally:
[X] Kyoko

Sorry B. Maybe sometime after next turn.

I say after because, again, we need to talk to the Sharks. Giygas is trying to incite all out war and we need to warn them before someone does something stupid and the pot boils over. Hell, as mentioned, it NEARLY DID just now. Last thing we need is them making it worse. Frankie, i'm not saying we shouldn't fuck the police, lord knows I hate them as much as you do, but you can't fight them on their terms. You're a smart man, you know what's liable to happen to a Shark if it takes the bait, if you catch my meaning. If you wanna pull this off, you need all the ducks in a row, and we happen to know some things about that row you don't. Most notably, there is a mind control conspiracy involved in it.
 
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I edited those out when I realized the vote was closed.
ah sorry for saying something so obvious then
i'd assume it doesn't screw anything up but might as well, at the very least prevents them from showing up in future votes if there was risk of that
gah, I knew I should've been watching this thread like a hawk today. that window was slim enough that I didnt get to vote =w=;;
would've really appreciated us using Porky's +10 otherwise, but hey, maybe we'll crit I guess? amazed that nobody chose the arcade, but at least someone was interested in using that bonus with the OPF, alas.
sort of a shame that a good situation for that's gone, but rumors has multiple tiers at least so there's the most chance of it boosting stuff? and going by this turn's results, wow, looks like it dedinitely did.
looks like we've been wildly successful in some things, which is more than enough to make up for recruitment/faction loyalty/buzz buzz nothingburgers

regarding hero recruitment, I'm guessing Kyoko is the better option, seems like CD only found another hero candidate for the sake of it (not a bad thing)(stat gain traits are nice, but for now we'd probably benefit more from having Kyoko's immediately, rather than something possibly better in the far future? plenty of actions will happen before they go up enough, and the extra stats on those will mean a difference)
[X] Kyoko

regarding revelations, definitely important info. i was just thinking each faction had an independent scheme, but it's looking like a negative-emotion gang war's about to kick off? very good to know.
with the info we have we hopefully now know how to take advantage, prevent, or prepare for this? i'm guessing stuff like protesting the OPF could serve as a controlled release for negative emotions, for instance? it would at the very least be pretty successful if people are stressed already, and if the OPF want an incident to respond to them reacting here may end up being overly heavy handed and tank their rep even more? which would hopefully derail their ambitions? and if they can't put the plan into action that means less violence in the (streets which is a plus)
other stuff like having the hill as secure territory will give us somewhere to hide out in the event of the worst (could be a priority)

sort of a shame about buzz buzz's personal but i can't stay seriously mad, i don't think it was a bad choice or anything (each action is still equally as good). fingers crossed buying baseball bats in bulk decreases the funds cost of investment/the business opportunity will stay around i guess.
it's interesting to consider that it previously cost a fund/and the action cost to go shopping, but this time we got it instead of/at a lower dice roll than a fund? so you could say we got something nominally worth a fund or more(actions), but that only in this situation was worse(other goals), right?
though it seems to be at half of its original effectiveness as well, so maybe not exactly. hmm, does anyone think the Xterminator spray got thrown in a sewer as one of many bug-based sabotage actions? seems very petty of them but i don't see why not lol

plenty of other things important to talk about but this message's getting long already. i guess porky's personals went well? and we've already gotten him weapons so doing well to motivate him right from the bat/s xDdouble joke, baseball pun/porky hates excersise

just checking @Crosswire is there any mechanical results of the learning action that got missed? i'm guessing it impacted intrigue a little/might update some actions but in most circumstances you've said that iirc so just wanted to check if it got missed or not
And if the QM is so kind, can I ask if rolling higher on the Dream roll was better or was it rolling lower?
not the QM, but the current roll seems very mixed. did what we hoped for, but now we're probably even more entangled with the whole medusa cult situation. bet you guys didn't expect that, huh. (i didn't either). so anyone who hoped to avoid additions (like me) probs aren't doing too well. this plotline may be fun, at least?
OK...Jesus Christ...Yeah, uh, we rolled great, no complaints there, but, um...Good god. Yeah, next turn, it's time to look into the cops, talk to the Sharks, and do whatever else we can to prevent an all out war.
prevention is good. maybe there's some action for "try to prevent alien plots" that gives us extra time we may want to be considering? that'd probably be in intrigue/martial/diplomacy though, ugh
 

Teach Members How to Brawl

DC: 40/80

1d100 =81+16= 97

[SMAAAASH! SUCCESS!]
Great start to the turn, crit on making our people not suck ass at fighting.

Recruiting (Onnet)

DC: 20/60/90

1d100=31+7 = 38

Tier 1 Success!
...not quite as happy about this, but getting some Hero Units is good right now, and at least it succeded.

Buy Baseball Bats in Bulk

DC: Autopass

Baseball Bats, get.

Listen for Rumors (Porky)

DC: 30/40/50/90

1d100= 65+3+24+2+ 10 = 104


SMAAAASH! SUCCESS!​

Holy shit Porky. Fuck, that was actually cool from him.
Nice to get a second crit t-

Check Local Disturbances (Buzz Buzz)

DC: 40/80

1d100 = 82 + 8+ 10 + 2 = 102


SMAAAASH! SUCCESS!

THIRD CRIT?
God damn everybody is locking in today.

[CD]Try to Foster Loyalty

1d100 = 20

We can't win 'em all though. Better luck next time CD.

[CD] Hang Out with a Hero: Porky

1d100 = 78

...god dammit, I can't hate him after that.
He's not built for this, and he knows he isn't, and he hates it, but he's going to knuckle down and try anyway.
Good luck Porky. I think you've earned some today.

Spend time with Kart and Floppy.

1d100 = 80

Dawww.

Pick a Coping Mechanism: Just Sleep in

1d100 = 45

Uh oh.
That's... concerning, but there's not a lot we can do about that right now?

Buzz Buzz: Find Small Objects

1d100 = 36

Eh, decent. I'll take it.
Porky: Cope With What You've Gotten Yourself Into

1d100 = 43

Aw, he does care about Picky.
And to be quite frank, there's a lot of 'cool stuff' to go around in the future, so I'm fine with this ambition.

All in all, that was an amazing turn for the outfielders as a whole, and only a decent turn for our Hero Units mentally.

That dreamer thing is very concerning to me, but... fuck, we don't have anything we can do about it, and it was a middling result, so lets just... hope that was okay.

Porky has lost his hated status from me. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

The Sharks are about to start beef with the police, and the police are looking for someone to beef with as an excuse to exert more control. That ain't good.
I'm honestly wondering if it might be worth it to try and time an attack on the police alongside the Shark's attack, and try to knock them out before things can get really locked down, or if we should try and stop the Sharks before they can attack the cops and set things off in the first place.

Our Outfielders are shaping up, but emphasis on the 'up'.

[X] Kyoko

I'll be blunt, I feel like our best move here is:
-Recruit Kyoko for the good combat unit.
-Stop the Sharks by attacking them.
-Hope to god the police aren't looking too hard when we do so.

I really want Mr B, but I don't feel like we have a lot of time here to spare, before the fan is hit with far more shit than we can handle.
 
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Great start to the turn, crit on making our people not suck ass at fighting.

...not quite as happy about this, but getting some Hero Units is good right now, and at least it succeded.

Baseball Bats, get.

Holy shit Porky. Fuck, that was actually cool from him.
Nice to get a second crit t-

THIRD CRIT?
God damn everybody is locking in today.

We can't win 'em all though. Better luck next time CD.

...god dammit, I can't hate him after that.
He's not built for this, and he knows he isn't, and he hates it, but he's going to knuckle down and try anyway.
Good luck Porky. I think you've earned some today.

Dawww.

Uh oh.
That's... concerning, but there's not a lot we can do about that right now?

Eh, decent. I'll take it.

Aw, he does care about Picky.
And to be quite frank, there's a lot of 'cool stuff' to go around in the future, so I'm fine with this ambition.

All in all, that was an amazing turn for the outfielders as a whole, and only a decent turn for our Hero Units mentally.

That dreamer thing is very concerning to me, but... fuck, we don't have anything we can do about it, and it was a middling result, so lets just... hope that was okay.

Porky has lost his hated status from me. I'm not sure how to feel about that.

The Sharks are about to start beef with the police, and the police are looking for someone to beef with as an excuse to exert more control. That ain't good.
I'm honestly wondering if it might be worth it to try and time an attack on the police alongside the Shark's attack, and try to knock them out before things can get really locked down, or if we should try and stop the Sharks before they can attack the cops and set things off in the first place.t

Our Outfielders are shaping up, but emphasis on the 'up'.

[X] Kyoko

I'll be blunt, I feel like our best move here is:
-Recruit Kyoko for the good combat unit.
-Stop the Sharks by attacking them.
-Hope to god the police aren't looking too hard when we do so.

I really want Mr B, but I don't feel like we have a lot of time here to spare, before the fan is hit with far more shit than we can handle.
I know it worked in the game, but I don't think fighting the Sharks will help. It worked for Ness because he was an upstanding model youth well respected by seemingly everyone, a paragon of thirteen-year old excellence and virtue (IE everything CD isn't) and he still had to fight off police brutality afterwards. The cops will just see one gang of crims fighting another. Plus, while we're certainly better then we used to be, we're still not really ready to take on the Sharks, like, just in terms of being able to actually beat them. No, I think it's time to try some Diplomacy. Frankie's not stupid, if we can convince him he's getting manipulated, we might be able to get him to at least lay low and not make things worse. Who knows, maybe we could team up to try and end this blockade. I like the idea of Frankie as a hero unit.
 
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I know it worked in the game, but I don't think fighting the Sharks will help. It worked for Ness because he was an upstanding model youth well respected by seemingly everyone, a paragon of thirteen-year old excellence and virtue (IE everything CD isn't) and he still had to fight off police brutality afterwards. The cops will just see one gang of crims fighting another. Plus, while we're certainly better then we used to be, we're still not really ready to take on the Sharks, like, just in terms of being able to actually beat them. No, I think it's time to try some Diplomacy. Frankie's not stupid, if we can convince him he's getting manipulated, we might be able to get him to at least lay low and not make things worse. Who knows, maybe we could team up to try and end this blockade. I like the idea of Frankie as a hero unit.
...huh, I didn't even mean to put 'by attacking them' on there.
Like, I recall thinking 'nah, we could also try talking to them, so I shouldn't put that' but it's clearly right there, so I guess I typed it on accident. Oops.
You are right though, our best chance is to tell the Sharks 'you probably shouldn't'.
 
Did a reread psyching myself up for the update dropping, hoping to find some nuggets that I'd missed prior... and welp!!
They're kids and teens dressed in shark themed helmets and outfits. All of them seem to try to stay as mobile as possible using skates, scooters, and to a lesser degree pogo sticks. None of them seem to have received any special training, they're simply more experience then most kids in getting into scrapes. Putting them on level with you to a degree. Their weapons are usually their fists, sticks, rocks, clubs, and occasionally the rare knife. They're not packing anything serious, but getting beat over the head by three people with skateboards is still rough. Shark members tend to work in groups and use their mobile to either run away quickly, or run down people they're after.

Great news! We're literally more armed than the sharks now! unless you count kick flip scooters as a non improvised bludgeoning device
Otherwise, I'm pretty confident that we can take The Sharks with Kyoko recruited and deployed to the action.

As others have already mentioned, the stone statue is likely an idol to Medusa, from Kid Icarus. She's a goddess. Tackling Medusa would be risky; but if we go down this route - I could see us encountering and perhaps gaining help from Palutena (or Pallas Athena), and likely Pit, as well.
This has left some in town wondering how the truck got through the barricade. Most assume that the driver had to have gotten express permission from the mayor. Others assume the driver used some strange influence to get the police to let them drive past without a fight.

The only thing that's known for suse is that the driver was carrying a
large stone tablet in the flatbed of the truck...

It's a shame it got smuggled legally exported, otherwise we could've used the mayoral paperwork to have it extradied to the Far Away Museum from animal crossing for safe keeping. Guess we'll have to get Paulutena on our side to get Paula to safety or whatever.

"I like collecting old or banned media from Earth." Fedora follows Mr. B's words, as if emboldened to share. "Like the esoteric spy thriller series Rocky and Bullwinkle. I'm sure you've never heard of it."

Tracing back it is kinda funny to see Fedora be a snob about niche media. Dinner with Andre recontextualized through the end of earth's recorded history was a neat lens, but, ajnkwbenjkawejnkjnk this one still gets me.
ALSO ROCKY AND FUCKING BULLWINKLE IS BANNED MEDIA (or old)

"Everyone thinks my dad works in another area, but he's really one of those new-age retro hippie people." Stander admits with visible discomfort. "Like, I'm pretty sure most of my lunch money is drug money."

Ahhh the implications of Hippie NPC
this gives me an idea for a stewardship action- ah wait we still need to set up that laboratory if we were gonna Make Weed (yes, meth lab funny, and probably an easy route, but there's probably more worthwhile drugs to peddle)

"When I ask you to, I want you to gather people up and bring them here to listen to what I have to say."

No superfluous words are wasted. You bluntly state what you want, what you need. Choking out the words as your chest tightens with apprehension.

"This isn't something everyone can know, but I'll tell you all what I know then."


"And...that's it?" Mr. B asks. "What if there's nothing we can do to help? What if uh, we don't want to help?"

"Then you won't." Standing up from the table you walk to the exit hatch in the floor and flip it open with your foot. "No one twisted my arm to do this, so I don't intend to twist yours either."

The boys all watch as you descend the ladder, dropping out of sight.

"Every asshole in this town wants to make other people do what they say. If you do help me, it'll be because you chose to."

This is STILL such a good line

Its to the point where the bugs are starting to show up in the northern forests, but they haven't reached the edge of town or the Treehouse behind the library at least...
[] Xterminator Spray: A single use item that can be used on a check. Adds a +10 to Martial Checks vs insect, or insect approximate enemies. May effect rolls unrelated to insects. -1 Funds

I had remembered during discussion that we had gone shopping before, so there was probably some merit in revisiting what our options were and seeing what our options might be-
funny how that works out right?
So, uh, I certainly got my wish for "gee if only we could get our hands on a can right now" I had while worried about alien actions in the immediate future and how we need to do something about the bugs before the treehouse is threatened.
CD + Kyoko + Xterminator Spray = Uh, probably a really nasty crit for the aliens to experience, you feel me?



"You first, what do you two want to be when you grow up?" You smile, forcing the frightening feelings down as far as they'll go. Immediately you see your siblings faces light up and speak up, eager to be the first to share.

"I want to be a geneticist, or at least I think that's what the title would be." Floppy spouts excitedly, almost shouting in the house as they clutch their hands.

"I read once that Metpharm is able to make whole new bodies for people if they want, or I guess modify their existing ones? Either way I think that's really wonderful Imagine if everyone was able to be exactly what and who they wanted to be. I love the idea of doing that, or making entirely new things! Though I don't know if I'd want to do that just with genetics, or with genetics and cybernetics. I guess I'll have to study both..."

"You just want to play with people parts like you play with building bricks!" Kart says, sticking his tongue out at Floppy.

"I want to be an archeologist, which is waaaaay less gross. There's a bunch of super cool ruins all over the place and it would be the best job in the world to learn everything about them! There's this one company called uh, GM? GT? GD? I don't remember, but someone at school said their dad used to work for them looking into all sorts of stuff in the Outlands. I'd give anything to have a job like that. Like, now even! By the time I'm done with school all the cool stuff will probably have already been found-!"

sobs, the kids are adorable again, and also uh...
Metpharm + GanonCorp sure are a combo and Franky wished he'd been a roboticist so that rounds out the trio

"I've got too much stuff going on right now. Besides I haven't been able to play baseball in years. It kind of takes a team to play that game and, well, you know..."

Though you don't see it as you stare down into the table, Kart and Floppy share a look. Each nodding to one another.

"It doesn't mean you can't learn! And it's not like you have school to take up anymore of your time."

"Yeah! I'm sure if you can find a way to a river you can just bully someone into ferrying you back and forth between here and River City!" Kart asserts, speaking like it was really that simple.
"Alright, alright. If I ever get the chance and I somehow find myself less busy I'll consider it."

TAKE CD OUT TO THE BAAALL GAAAAME
but hey, synergy with when we finally leave Onett + have to resolve Kyoko's despair does anyone hear madoka magica theme music

"I believe my friend here can summarize my answer for me."

Just the glint in Buzz Buzz's small eyes tells you exactly what he wants.

You hold up your hand, your face illuminated by the pink light of Buzz Buzz's shield


"Kill yourself."

again, this is just a really fun sequence I still love, and I'm so glad CD's our protag

Each character under the control of the players in a battle has a set number of Action Points (AP) they can spend to make certain decisions in a fight.

This one's worthwhile to revisit as to why Kyoko's so fucking good.
she has free actions
nobody on our team as of yet has free actions as a thing at all
that's a really useful trait for a party member (ESPECIALLY if we could get her to teach that trait to CD)

[] Try to Reposition to a more favorable location (1 Action): You're fighting in the open street more or less surrounded on all sides. Thankfully you're on the edge of town, if you can run a bit and drag this fight a bit farther away, you could reposition to the forest or at least somewhere with some terrain you could take advantage of. [Sport! Is in effect for this action]

[C.D] - 1 AP Action: Try to Reposition to a more favorable location

Your Result: 54 +15 = 69
[SPORTY TRAIT ACTIVE]
[] Climb a Tree and Get the Drop on Them! (1 Action): It's more about elevation then stealth, but you doubt the aliens look up anymore then a normal person does. Dropping in from above would increase your chances of success, be it in attack or otherwise. And your mom said you wouldn't be climbing trees when you got older. This action is effected by the Sporty Trait!
[C.D] - 1 AP Action: Climb a Tree and Get the Drop on Them!
Your Result:
1d100 = 36 + 16 = 52 [SPORTY Trait in Effect]

why have I clustered these?
trait usage.
that's probably one of the best things we did during that combat sequence was putting to use CD's Sporty Trait
And while it shouldn't be a crutch I'm a fan of using traits like that

Old memories of climbing trees as a little kid with █̴̲̓█̷̛̙͍̐█̸̛̤͈̞͖̈̓́̚█̷͖̉͆͊█̴̫͔͂̀͜ flood back to you amidst the silence rustling of leaves.

just noting this because it's worthwhile. especially with the omori overlaps increasing oops

Off in another room, a Man laughs and his laugher compels others to laugh. Eager to please him, or frightened to lose his favor.

Glasses are clinked together, towering strangers walk over you, but you remain unseen.

The Man is unwilling, or unable, to see you.

not that big a deal but I feel like it's interesting what we do know about her dad

With deft hands that shake ever so slightly, the women mends your Plushie. Though you can see the thread and needle now, in the moment it looks like magic.

"You have to be careful with the things you care about. Things can unravel and fall apart if you pull at the loose threads, even if you don't mean to. That's true for plushies and for people."

You don't understand the meaning of her words as she hands back your
Plushie.

Hugging it to your chest you look up at the women as she stands up.

"I love you, Mommy."

SOBS

Trees feet thick go threadbare.

Solid granite rocks are opened up like badly tended toys.

And the hardened exterior of the Starman floats off it's interior frame. Fluttering and shifting like a stretch of fabric attached by lines of steel and sinew reduced to threads.

Sensitive electronics and preserved, mutilated organics exposed to the open air.

You straighten your self out, head held high.

All the Starman can think to do is scream.


"NO PLEASENONONONONONONO THISISN'TPOSSIBLE-"

All it takes is a thought.

A simple visualization.


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The Starman's arms begin to rapidly unravel.

Components strong enough to pulverize concrete fall from them like stuffing as the thread abruptly shifts with your 'pull'.


Lines are ripped from alloy, and flesh, and wire.

Material spools off, taken away by the breeze.


"AWARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Sparks and fluids burst and explode from the exposed innards of the Starman's body as bits of it's reactor, and brain, and life support are ripped out.

Then the thread snaps.

In an instant, the world around you returns to normal.

i STILL REALLY LOVE THIS PART OF THE FIGHT, sorry did you expect everything I quoted to be useful?

[] Just...Play Some Baseball: You are beat to shit, but staying physically inactive for a whole month probably might do more harm then good. It's been a long time, but you could try gathering some kids for a game of baseball? Chances are it'll just be your siblings, and maybe not even that. But something low stakes would be nice after what happened in the forest.
DC: ???

[]
Check Lier X. Agerate's Shack: You'll have to go up that godforsaken hill again, but you've noticed Lier's shack hasn't been lit for a while. Normally the lights in the window are visible at night. If he somehow managed to skip town, that would mean his house is empty. And with the Lockdown he won't be back that easily to check on it. Maybe a little casual snooping or breaking and entering are in order?
DC: 20/???

I know the former'll make a reprise in theory, but this seriously could be worth it 8V maybe later tho we have ants to fry
The latter? I do wonder why it stopped being an option, maybe just to avoid choice overload.

Summary? I should've probably quoted the past Opposition Turn Results to highlight how things were building to all that we learned this turn BUT
we had some great luck this turn, making my one big highlight, the xterminator spray, moot lolol

  • Adventurous Spirit: Mr. B wants adventure and may even attract it without knowing. The fact he met you should be proof of that. Whenever Mr. B is assigned to an action that would take him somewhere unexpected, unusual, or far off he will received an additional random Personal action. These can be positive, or dangerous, but will always be opportunities of some kind.
  • Potential: Anytime Mr. B would receive a stat increase, that stat is increased by an additional +1. After hitting a certain threshold for capability, this trait will be replaced with one of the players own choosing.

These are neat enough traits that I'd be down to pick him... but we have Kyoko and those BSTs are... all below Kyoko's stats 8c
Still, picking him again later could be useful... like seriously: assigning Mr B to the right location unlocks a bonus Personal
So like... let's say we assigned Mr B to the Seize Giant's Foot, or a Learning action taking place somewhere weird, he'd just get a freebie Personal Event regardless of what we chose for his Personal or what the result of his assignment was.
That's pretty sweet atop Potential. but what can I say I'm a sucker for Villager Units

[] Kyoko: "Hmm? What are you up to CD? Do you need my help? There's always been plenty of gangs where I'm from, so I shouldn't be surprised you'd start your own. I suppppose I could come along for the ride, if you're running things then I'm sure it'll be fun!"

[] Mr. Baseball Cap Kid: "You've wanted this Mr. Baseball Cap for a while, right? Why don't you take it? It's perfect for someone brave like you. Huh you don't want it? You want me? Well I've always wanted to go on an adventure. I'd like to come with you, but…I don't know if I'm strong enough..."

Love the writing on these options.

"Broken windows theory is right I guess. And with the money the department will get sending them away it'll be easy to turn this town into something proper."
The street seemed to grow darker, the cop seemed to shrink totally unaware of what was coming, and the windows watched like glistening eyes-

"Window!"

Like a wrench jammed into gears spun out of control, every other thought stopped for Porky.

Without hesitating or thinking another thought, he did what had come naturally to him since he was five.

CRASH!


"WHO THE FUCK IS THERE!?"

The rock Porky through shattered the window of a nearby house.

THE PAYOFF OF ME KNOWING ABOUT BROKEN WINDOW THEORY FROM INTRO TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO CHEERING FOR PORKY TO DO IT JNKAWEJNKAEJNK
This was a pretty good setup and payoff 8D
For those unaware, 'broken window' theory can be summed up as: if a building has a broken window it's likely to be viewed as neglected, and that makes it a higher priority target for say doing some graffiti to, and if it's got a broken window and graffiti, you can bet that someone wouldn't care if you broke in right? Or let's just kick it to wikipedia:
In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes.[1] The theory suggests that policing methods that target minor crimes, such as vandalism, loitering, public drinking and fare evasion, help to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness.

The big takeway here beyond the me hooting and hollering: the OPF intends to create a prison pipeline to funnel the delinquents into, and was waiting for the darker events to kick things off, which would've resulted in a bit of a gang war between the police and the sharks.
The whole air movement thing is bad news, as it should shock nobody.

- The Outfielders have learned that the Sharks are gearing up for hostilities with the police and seem to have ambitions to greatly expand their control over the town.
- The Outfielders have learned that the Police intend on taking drastic actions and are looking for any provocation from the undesirable elements in town to use as justification for extreme measures.

- The Aliens attempted to kill a police officer near shark territory in the dead of night. ENEMY ACTION INTERUPTED DUE TO SMASH SUCCESS!

ty for the sum-up!! and god, I have... much reduced issues with how our plan went, annnnd it sure helps that we got the right roll too.

"Why...why me? No one ever asks me for anything."

You took a moment, before looking at Porky.

"I don't really know how to be subtle and I always thought you were really clever when I was little, Porky. If anyone can trick aliens it would be you."

Managing a small, weak smile Porky took one look at you and sighed.

There was a defeated air to him as he left, but not in the usual sense of the word.

It was like the worst part of Porky had just lost to himself.

+Porky's Opinion of CD has been raised!

WAHOO, but also overall this was a really good character interaction

CD's Relationship with her Siblings has been maintained
CD's Relationship with her Siblings have been improved!

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

CD's Depression has been alleviated for 3 Turns!
Additional Personal Actions have been unlocked.

DREAMER Trait Gained!

...I'm curious what the Dreamer trait is, and if it mirrors to the Shadow of the Dragon: An 8-Bit Dystopia Quest 's similar trait
Dreamer: You have a certain knack for finding your way to, and in, the realms of thought and metaphor known as the Dreamlands. +3 Occult, +10 to rolls relating to the Dreamlands
It's a noun-er, so that doesn't mean it functions in any capacity the same, but I expect we can hold some similarities.

+Item Gained!
Xterminator Spray: A potent insecticide no longer produced due to it's toxicity. Could be useful when dealing with pests. [One time +5 Martial bonus against Insect-like enemies. Usable in combat or with applicable checks

HOORAY.. but also uh... there's a disrepancy with the old version, to be stated outside of this spoiler.

Porky has gained a personal ambition!
Personal Ambition: "Cool Stuff" -
Porky has many material desires and fanciful ideas. Being able to gain these things or fulfil these desires will motivate him further and ensure his loyalty.

...yknow what, I'll take it. I'll take Harm Reduction-isming Porky's character arc in life with consumerism.
Maybe he has a bright future with Nook Inc

Rolling higher is better.

I will say any immediate negative consequences involving Dreams may be hard to spot.

But that doesn't mean they aren't there.

yeah. As someone who uh... has certainly spent a great number of hours asleep (and awake, I've experienced both sleep deprivation and sleep maximization), whether due to a medication I didnt want to begin with or depression
Dreams are a gacha.
I've gone back to bed because "I dont have anything better to do, and being awake sucks", and wasted my time with shit-tier dreams hoping for an entertaining one. this tends to be a sign from my brain to get on with being awake for the day
I expect the negative consequences will probably be multitudinous, but for those reading: being awake will be less appealing to CD sooner or later if the dreams remain rose-tinted

Find it kind funny how CD looks like Aubrey from omori, and now due to a accident that happened in the family (Even if the main cause of said accident is supernatural stuff) she's basically pulling a sunny and just spends time in this dream world to not have to deal with the stuff happening in the real world.

But that's also kind of extremely bad as last thing we need is for her to not want to leave that dream world. Or even worse to an extent, create her own conscious being in her dreams like Sunny did with omori.

goddddddddddddd, well. well that sure is a route to take.
funny how we chose not to compartmentalize, technically, and might still end up getting the same result!!

hmm, does anyone think the Xterminator spray got thrown in a sewer as one of many bug-based sabotage actions? seems very petty of them but i don't see why not lol

I love that.

That-!
Is...a very good question.

Let me check my notes. I'll get back to you on this!
Edit:
* Porky's Birthday is March 1st.
* And CD's Birthday is July 28th

Both of those days have symbolic significance of some kind, I'll leave you all to figure that out if you can!

I do want to see speculation on these, as I'll just be arbitrarily looking at dates from the "list of historical dates" results for each. porky's sure are porky-fitting tho
I believe that makes Porky a Pisces, and that makes CD a Leo, right?

[X] Kyoko

Anyhow, disrepancy time:
[] Xterminator Spray: A single use item that can be used on a check. Adds a +10 to Martial Checks vs insect, or insect approximate enemies. May effect rolls unrelated to insects.
Xterminator Spray: A potent insecticide no longer produced due to it's toxicity. Could be useful when dealing with pests. [One time +5 Martial bonus against Insect-like enemies. Usable in combat or with applicable checks

Is the change in the bonus a reflection of the xterminator spray instance being lower quality (due to being discarded, likely not having full %), the result of balancing just how potent a bonus that is, or the result of something else?
Asking in the event that we went shopping and tried to keep an eye out, would an instance of Xterminator Spray that costs 1 Fund be a +10 as opposed to the one we found in a ditch?
or does "no longer produced" exist non-diegetically to imply that this is the only one we're gonna be able to get now

Formal Suggestion:

since I have to go sleep now

[]Martial: Challenge the Sharks... to a game of Baseball

I just want to remind folks that this should be an option next turn-ish.
We dont have to have a 'gang violence' all out brawl with them.. we can play to our strengths and keep it PG-13 Enough that the cops will probably look the other way 83c

That said, I'm mixed about not taking down the insect hive ASAP next turn if we can help it... but, if we're gonna neutralize The Sharks?
that's my big whammy plan.

Otherwise?
[] Pick Up Trash
We want to improve the morale of the town and our Reputation, right?
I think this option's a less-examined win-win.
 
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That dreamer thing is very concerning to me, but... fuck, we don't have anything we can do about it, and it was a middling result, so lets just... hope that was okay.
best bet seems like using this 3-turn reprieve to get more magical know-how to get taken advantage less easily/get in a better headspace and less reliant on coping mechanisms, but will have to see if that's possible or not. there's some training actions we can take now, at least?
...starting a cult's only fun when its us doing it, not weird mindscape entities being creeps
I'm honestly wondering if it might be worth it to try and time an attack on the police alongside the Shark's attack, and try to knock them out before things can get really locked down, or if we should try and stop the Sharks before they can attack the cops and set things off in the first place.
for the first one at the moment we don't seem well-enough positioned to strike at an opportune target that'd lead to decapitating them sufficiently/powerful enough to tip the scales in our/the shark's favour enough, and even if we are everyone would probably still end up weak enough to be swept away by the bugs afterwards?

talking could help. while idk if we'll be able to convince him to stop entirely/even if we could other stuff could probably set the police off regardless, he might be interested(read: very mad/ready to punch bugs) to hear the bodyjacked people were trying to set the sharks up/set the OPF off if we have proof of that part? and we seem to have quite a bit of info worth distributing too that should to help him at least keep an eye out for interference while stuff goes down... if we can get him willing to take measures against bugs and aware of the fact that things will stay calm until someone strikes and

so i think talking is a good call next turn so long as the action's still there/doable and we don't have anything else absolutely essential to take. sharks doing less dumb stuff/trying to prevent the bugs from kicking things off might buy us some time before the gang war and at the very least reduce how messed up stuff is if not (since they'd know about the bugs and wouldn't be messed with so easily). might even set us up for future intergration/coexistence too.
protesting could be good too but it's probably a higher DC and since it maybe harms our street rep with the sharks, in the situation where we end up being able to do both (maybe if we can just do something else to buy one more turn, to let us and the sharks get preparation and release the tension on our own terms?), it'd probs be better to start with the sharks? especially since the sharks calming down could *buy* us more time before things kick off.

Did a reread psyching myself up for the update dropping, hoping to find some nuggets that I'd missed prior... and welp!!
reread:
Great news! We're literally more armed than the sharks now! unless you count kick flip scooters as a non improvised bludgeoning device
Otherwise, I'm pretty confident that we can take The Sharks with Kyoko recruited and deployed to the action.
note I'd assume the sharks have more experience brawling than us? we're now on the level of "inexperienced delinquent" and they're all delinquents with plenty of experience, basically. plus one of their actions was titled "shark's teeth" or something and involved them upgrading their weapons, so we can expect them to be somewhat better armed than us? it probably varies from member to member, the real important thing is that they have more manpower than us so even if we're roughly even we'd lose out due to attrition (and that's ignoring frankystein)
rocky and bulwinkle is probably not banned banned (may just be unavailable) but it's funny to imagine
not that big a deal but I feel like it's interesting what we do know about her dad
THE MAN being cass's dad is one idea, though i would have thought her dad was unrelated to that line/they would be closer to one of the minions. i guess we'll have to see?
The latter? I do wonder why it stopped being an option, maybe just to avoid choice overload.
the action for checking Lier X. Agerate's Shack is probs replaced entirely by the one for seizing control of the hill as part of the scope of some actions increasing now we have a faction. probably a good thing, since it means we can get that done while doing something tactically relevant too.

turn 6:
THE PAYOFF OF ME KNOWING ABOUT BROKEN WINDOW THEORY FROM INTRO TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO CHEERING FOR PORKY TO DO IT JNKAWEJNKAEJNK
fun point on window theory, i missed that the smash existed as a callback to the previous thing. that said, we know the OPF's pulling a lot of bull because that window wasn't even smashed in the first place, everything's totally fine.
...I'm curious what the Dreamer trait is, and if it mirrors to the Shadow of the Dragon: An 8-Bit Dystopia Quest 's similar trait
sadly DREAMER probably isn't as good as in "shadow of the dragon", since it's yellow instead of green. lot of possible issues can come from it for sure
Maybe he has a bright future with Nook Inc
i disagree vehemently on having porky work with nook, that's worse than him betraying us for Giygas

unspoilered:
or does "no longer produced" exist non-diegetically to imply that this is the only one we're gonna be able to get now
that'd be pretty insightful if true but probably not, iirc it got discontinued the whole time due to how extreme it was lol

also, if we want to try and avert the war entirely doing some above-board actions might help but eh, other factions get a vote too and could still screw it up? so i don't think it'd do enough to matter, especially if we want to work with the sharks (as the only faction we can get to listen to us and who aren't aliens/currently taking orders from aliens) since the two seem pretty mutually exclusive.
(don't have the time to read your thoughts right now but i'll give them a look and edit anything i want to add here afterwards when i can)
 
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Seem Community Service(pick up trash) and Alien Study are in the list.
We'll need to delay/stop the issue with the cops and sharks, Reduce the Negativity in the Oneet (Pick up trash/Healing for money), and keep an eye on the bugs/fight the local wildlife.
One way to fight the aliens is to start collecting candy and other sweets/deprive them of needed resources.

[X] Kyoko
 
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[X] Kyoko

Cool, we found our Magicant! I wonder if the person we chat with there is Medusa, someone connected to Medusa, or just a native of our Magicant.
 
We'll need to delay/stop the issue with the cops and sharks, Reduce the Negativity in the Oneet (Pick up trash/Healing for money), and keep an eye on the bugs/fight the local wildlife.
healing for money increases suspicion, i think that would do the opposite of calm things down? and if trash is diplo that'd prevent other actions that may be more important
 
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