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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] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.
We are not retreating, they are.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.

Taking time to find another target means reloaded weapons and steady hands. Plus we might find useful targets for the guns.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.

@Artificial Girl any chance we can add a radio message in? 'Enemy cruiser dead in the water, fog clearing, torpedo Boat Kuni breaking off attack.' Or something along those lines?
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.

My experience from Rule the waves says that the cruiser is as good as sunk so may as well look for something else to sink.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.

Yeah, she's not getting back to port. Time to move on.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.
 
[X] Attack: You'll never have a better chance to send an enemy cruiser to the bottom than this. Then again, they'll know you're coming.

Glorious fighting spirit! This is literally our job and we have to excel in order to be an example. Remember people are looking for every excuse to judge women officers by our actions, so lets play to their ideal of the best possible naval officer.
 
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[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate.
 
Maybe we should call it out? We should keep with the convoy, but I imagine it would be jolly civilized of us to help vector in an easy kill.
 
[X ] Attack: You'll never have a better chance to send an enemy cruiser to the bottom than this. Then again, they'll know you're coming.

Glorious fighting spirit! This is literally our job and we have to excel in order to be an example. Remember people are looking for every excuse to judge women officers by our actions, so lets play to their ideal of the best possible naval officer.
This is not our job, we're escorting the convoy and where there's one cruiser there are usually about three.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate
-[X] Use radio to update convoy.
 
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[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate
-[X] Use radio to update convoy.

This is not our job, we're escorting the convoy and where there's one cruiser there are usually about three.
Also, you know, escort ships? Like frigates and other vessels?
 
Also, you know, escort ships? Like frigates and other vessels?
Not always, if these guys are the scouting force of a larger fleet or have become separated in the fog then it could just be them, I'd have expected to run into a screening ship by now if they were out there. That's the good news. The bad news is that frigate was not in vogue as a designation at this time, instead the likely light escorts are Torpedo Boat Destroyers. Not a comforting thought for our Torpedo Boat.
 
[X] Try to find a different target--your job is to protect the convoy, not launch solo attacks on enemy cruisers. Besides, she's out of the fight at this rate
-[X] Use radio to update convoy.
 
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