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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] See if you can get some of the other officers on my side. My job will be easier without half the crew blatantly disregarding me and my position. (+Diplomacy. This will make headway towards some respect and friends.)
 
[X] See if you can get some of the other officers on my side. My job will be easier without half the crew blatantly disregarding me and my position. (+Diplomacy. This will make headway towards some respect and friends.)
 
[X] See if you can get some of the other officers on my side. My job will be easier without half the crew blatantly disregarding me and my position. (+Diplomacy. This will make headway towards some respect and friends.)

So I'm curious to see what other people think this guy's deal is because I can't make heads or tails of it.
He's big. And earnest. And big. And apparently something of a convert to 'respect women for being tough about things.' And big. And he WAS kind of a jerk. And big.

Well, actually by modern Western standards he's average height and just happens to be built like a linebacker, but by Akitsukuni standards this makes him kind of a giant, the equivalent of being 6'6" or 6'7"
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)
 
[x] See if you can get some of the other officers on my side. My job will be easier without half the crew blatantly disregarding me and my position. (+Diplomacy. This will make headway towards some respect and friends.)
 
@open_sketchbook, will those +diplomacy or +technical go along with us when we transfer to another ship?
is it a permanent boost to our character?
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)

Hideaki Stronk!
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)

I think that I (and several other people) misinterpreted this choice as a stat-up and with that in mind, I'm going to switch to some stress relief - 5 stress isn't so bad right now but we're almost certainly going to have to add to it in the future, and I'd like a little breathing room when that happens.
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)

Will this only be -1 stress now, or will it also provide further chances to relieve stress the same way later (maybe not this "chapter", but later chapters if we remain on the same boat)?
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)
Stress is bad, m'kay?
 
[X] Honestly, can you just come talk to me every once and awhile? It's isolated as hell down here. (-1 Stress)

Also, random thought...considering this is him helping...that's almost certainly not *our* Diplo or tech we'd be rolling, but his (unknown) scores
 
Well, we're clearly living inside an anime, so anime conventions of people being impossibly, exaggeratedly large clearly apply to the viewers, if not to the in-setting perceptions of the characters themselves.

I wonder how many times Princess Haruna has sweat-dropped or done that weird angry plus sign thing. :p
 
[x] Try to get some of the topside sections to coordinate with my section. My men can only do so much: we need everyone on top of their paperwork and filing. (+Technical. This will effectively autopilot much of your job going forward in non-emergencies.)

Diplomacy is one of our strong points, no need to double down on it IMO.
 
[X] See if you can get some of the other officers on my side. My job will be easier without half the crew blatantly disregarding me and my position. (+Diplomacy. This will make headway towards some respect and friends.)
 
[X] See if you can get some of the other officers on my side. My job will be easier without half the crew blatantly disregarding me and my position. (+Diplomacy. This will make headway towards some respect and friends.)

Vote is closed. Someone roll 3d6 please~
 
Well should I roll more than one? I can just roll the first for now and if someone wants they can roll the other...
Crasian01 threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: First of 3d6 Total: 4
4 4
 
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