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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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Sticking to my guns. I don't have a problem with Only the Lonely winning because sweet sweet drama, but it also sounds like it's setting a more personally damaging trap for Haruna down the road.

[X] We will have ORDER
 
[X] We will have ORDER
I'm pretty sure the lonely will win, but I feel like going full disciplinarian is far more in character. Not to mention it'll probably trigger the junior officer mutiny plot line that was hinted at
 
[X] We will have ORDER

Honestly I'd be fine with Only the Lonely too, but I lean a bit more toward this - it'll create more immediate problems, but also therefore more actionable ones. It also plays well into the flubbed Diplomacy roll we just got.
 
[X] I don't get no respect

At the very least no alcoholism, no taking it out on the subordinates, no obvious self-sabotage, and no cheating on a sweet girl. So that leaves...
 
[X] Only the lonely
Or alcoholism

Alcoholism it is
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse

Even though moratorium is over and it looks like the bandwagon already started i'll post my arguments.

[ ] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse
This is one of the most in character option imo. I can be a little biased but i picture all navy officers as heavy drinkers. It's fitting that Haruna gains negative traits of Navy Officers along with positive ones.

[ ] Only the lonely
Haruna needs a hug. All she needs is a hug. She is surrounded by men, her superior officers don't like her, and she lost some of her crew. She desperately needs a hug. Oh i know it won't end with just cuddling, but Haruna does not know that. It's tragic and i like it.
And i don't like ship with Aiko anyway.

[ ] I don't get no respect
This one is interesting. Oh yeah, very interesting, but unfortunately too much vague in consequences to be picked.

[ ] We will have ORDER
This one is completely out of character for me. It does not fit Haruna who cares for her crew (even a bit too much imo, she takes every death too personally) and it does not fit Haruna who just got late for fleet rendez-vous because of trying to be too perfect.

[ ] Going to HR:
That's simply not gonna work and our protagonist knows that. The only way to chose this option is out of spite, but meh.
 
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[X] We will have ORDER

Don't cheat, you bunch of absolute bastards! If you don't like Aiko then get shot of her like an adult. I'd much prefer to drink for story and character reasons but this looks like the appointed other option.
 
You now you are in a nice place when alcoholism is the best option

But shamefully it doesn't look like it can win so

[X] We will have ORDER

Tactical vote time
 
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I'm just voting for literally anything but Only the Lonely.
Honestly, I would rather not cheat on Aiko.
Don't cheat, you bunch of absolute bastards! If you don't like Aiko then get shot of her like an adult. I'd much prefer to drink for story and character reasons but this looks like the appointed other option.
You now you are in a nice place when alcoholism is the best option

But shamefully it doesn't look like it can win so

[X] We will have ORDER

Tactical vote time

Y'all wanna switch?
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse
 
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse

We need a goddamn drink.
 
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