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Lieutenant Arisukawa Haruna

Balance Stats
❁ • Work / Life • ❁
❁ • ❁ Warrior / Princess ❁ • ❁
❁ • ❁ Radical / Respectable ❁ • ❁


Tactical Stats
Gunnery 0, Navigation +2, Command +2, Technology -4, Personal -2, Strategy +3

Stress: 3


PLEASE READ THE QUEST RULES BELOW

You collectively vote on the actions of Arisukawa Haruna, the first woman to serve openly in the Imperial Akitsukuni Navy.

This quest is set in a universe which is much like our own circa 1910, but with different politics, cultural norms, and ideas about gender and sexuality, as well as some unusual and advanced technology in places.

We are using this quest to explore themes like breaking the glass ceiling, divergent outlooks on gender and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, and the place of royalty.

Content Warning
This quest goes some dark places.

There is violence, often explicit, often unfair, often against undeserving targets.

There are not always good options forward. The protagonist is not necessarily a good person.

There is implied content and discussion of sexual harassment and assault.

This is a world where people are often racist, sexist, queerphobic bigots. Sometimes, even the PC and the people they are friends with.

Voting Rules

We will tell you if write-in votes are allowed. If we do not say that write-ins are allowed, they are not. This is to prevent people from unrealistically hedging their bets.

You may proposal other options in a non-vote format, subject to approval, on non write-in votes.

We will tell you when a vote allows approved voting. If we don't say the answer is no, pick an option. We like making people commit.

Discussions makes the GM feel fuzzy.

Game Rules
When we ask you for a roll, roll 3d6. You are aiming to roll equal or under the value of your stat. If you succeed, Haruna gets through the situation with no real difficulties. If you roll above the target value, Haruna will still succeed, but this success will cost her something or add a complication.

Whenever Haruna loses something or faces hardship from a botched roll, she takes Stress. The more Stress Haruna has, the more the job and the circumstances she's in will get to her, and it'll be reflected in the narrative. Haruna must be kept under 10 Stress: if she reaches 10 Stress, she will suffer a breakdown and the results will not be great for her.

Haruna loses stress by taking time for herself, by making meaningful progress on her dreams, and by kissing tall, beautiful women.

Meta Rules
Author commentary is in italics so you know it's not story stuff.

Please don't complain about the system or the fact we have to roll dice. We've heard it before, we've heard it a thousand times across multiple quests. We're not going to change it, and it wears at our fucking souls.

Just going "oh noooo" or "Fish RNGesus Why!" is fun and fine. Complaining at length because you didn't get what you want less so.

If you have a question, tag both @open_sketchbook and @Artificial Girl. If you only tag one of us, you will be ignored. Seriously, we both write this quest.

And yes this is an alt-history type setting with openly gay and trans people, ahistoric medicine, and weird politics. Just... deal, please?

This quest employs a special system called Snippet Votes. Please read this post for more information.
 
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[X] Pobeda
Is waiting for the cruiser to pass/get distracted to get a safe shot at the Nikolai viable, or will that just lose us our chance to take a shot?
 
Kenshin was next to you on the conning tower and you felt intensely privileged to be here, to see this decisive battle playing out. You were excited--surely, surely this would be the blow that would be the end of the war.
[]Sometimes it seems like Kenshin treats Haruna with favoritism, or something approaching it. They're certainly close friends anyway. How do we see other officers on the sub reacting to this relationship?

Epic battles are cool, but I just want more drama and office politics. It's got to be great when the office is a tiny tube and also you don't go home at the end of the day.
 
You were excited--surely, surely this would be the blow that would be the end of the war.

Ha. Haha. Hahahahah*sobbing in Aircraft Design*

Speaking of which, since we know a few things about the general trajectory of the war to come, I'm not super inclined to take on a significant risk for an advantage that can't matter too much anyway.

[X] Katerina Velikaya
 
Ha. Haha. Hahahahah*sobbing in Aircraft Design*

Speaking of which, since we know a few things about the general trajectory of the war to come, I'm not super inclined to take on a significant risk for an advantage that can't matter too much anyway.

There are many ways in which it could matter, even if it won't immediately end the war.
 
There are many ways in which it could matter, even if it won't immediately end the war.

Sure, it could matter some, but it can't change the course of the whole war and short of that I'm not especially inclined to put our sub's life even further on the line than it already is.
 
[X] Imperator Nikolai

A vote with differing opinions is interesting.
 
[X] Imperator Nikolai
fuck it, lets go for big air.

if we take out or at least to major damage too there flagship it might just be something of a minor win for us.
 
[X] Imperator Nikolai

Go big or go home, it also seems like the easiest shot we'll have aside from the Pavel which won't have the biggest effect on the battle. The Katerina arguably could have an even stronger effect being sunk as the best target that's still full in the fight but the swarm around it makes it the hardest shot. Pobeda might be the revenge kill but we don't even know that for sure and I'd rather go for the equal trade of taking out their flagship for ours than the the ship that might've sunk ours.
 
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[X] Katerina Velikaya
Adhoc vote count started by Jrin on Mar 7, 2019 at 5:59 AM, finished with 3467 posts and 31 votes.
 
Pobeda seems less a super-weapon and more an oddity. Something with dubious actual utility in naval combat aside from really good luck like they got this time, and probably much better suited to shore bombardment. Pobeda might possibly have been built to fight conventional ships with the intent of outranging them and only needing to land a shot or two, but if so that's probably been well and truly shown to not be a viable strategy if absolutely everything else (rate of fire, mobility, armor, fire control technology, firing arc...) is against you. I wouldn't be surprised if the ship was instead built to crack big, scary fortifications someone or other was building or something of the sort. With a gun like that, and built before the battleship arms race pushed armor really thick, that makes more sense to me.
Pobeda sounds like a mix of bomb ship and dynamite cruiser (like the OTL USS Vesuvius). He? She? It? was designed for a specific role and as a technology demonstrator, but is now largely obsolete.

[ ] What pronouns get used for ships in different languages?. (IIRC, Russian uses masculine, English uses feminine, and German depends on the name of the ship)

[x] Katerina Velikaya
 
As an aside...

[ ] A look at the Academy from one of the cadets we inspired. [
[ ] I'd like to see how Haruna's mom is handling her daughter being in active combat both on a personal level and a political one. We saw that newspaper's attack on Haruna last post. I'd like to see how her mom handles similar attacks.
and similar snippet votes are not really doable. We don't go outside of Haruna's viewpoint in this quest.

Fair enough. Does this work?
[ ] Haruna gets a letter from her mom, with her mom's thoughts on her daughter being in combat and also some political news (if possible).

surely, surely this would be the blow that would be the end of the war.
Oh, sweet summer child.

We've got the best chance of taking out the flagship.
[X] Imperator Nikolai
 
[ ] What pronouns get used for ships in different languages?. (IIRC, Russian uses masculine, English uses feminine, and German depends on the name of the ship)

Russian has grammatical genders, so it depends on the ship's name and whether it is used alone or with the ship's class (as those are almost all masculine, while ship names can be any gender). For instance, in Russian you would say "Pobeda is turning. She is trying to disengage", as "Pobeda" (lit. "Victory") is feminine, but "The battleship "Pobeda" is turning. He is trying to disengage", as "battleship" is masculine, and as Pobeda is merely the battleship's name, its gender has a higher priority.

So in general, how a person refers to an object in Russian does not necessarily reflect some trait of the language, but is merely dependent on the context.
 
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