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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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These are all bad options which is good. I'd definitely rather not have alcoholism or dramatic cheating so those're out for me even if they're gonna win. Taking it out on the crew when they've done nothing especially wrong feels unfair so between HR and No Respect. I was gonna go for No Respect but I'm changing to HR, even if its politically damaging for our career there's gotta be some value for the next generation showing that you don't have to just grin and bear it.

[X] Going to HR
 
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse

I'll switch to anything likely to defeat the relationship drama. I'm just not interested in reading that.
 
[X] Going to HR

I for one would like to see what new kind of shitty posting the admiralty can think up for Haruna.
 
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse

These are all bad options which is good. I'd definitely rather not have alcoholism or dramatic cheating so those're out for me even if they're gonna win. Taking it out on the crew when they've done nothing especially wrong feels unfair so between HR and No Respect. I was gonna go for No Respect but I'm changing to HR, even if its politically damaging for our career there's gotta be some value for the next generation showing that you don't have to just grin and bear it.

[X] Going to HR

We're going to sober up, because we voted to sober up. This is just one last hurrah before we deal with it. Now, it's one last hurrah that lasts weeks, so it can and will still do damage, but it won't make inherently us long-term alcoholics.

Doesn't make your vote invalid, just pointing out a thing or two.
 
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We're going to sober up, because we voted to sober up. This is just one last hurrah before we deal with it. Now, it's one last hurrah that lasts weeks, so it can and will still do damage, but it won't make inherently us long-term alcoholics.

Doesn't make your vote invalid, just pointing out a thing or two.

Oh yeah I understand that part don't worry I'd still just rather not. Though I guess splitting hairs we will still be alcoholics even when we sober up I guess
 
We're going to sober up, because we voted to sober up. This is just one last hurrah before we deal with it. Now, it's one last hurrah that lasts weeks, so it can and will still do damage, but it won't make inherently us long-term alcoholics.

Are we?

Just because we voted for something doesn't mean we're going to accomplish it successfully. Voting for an alcoholic breakdown seems to me a good reason to assume that said attempt failed completely.

I mean, we also voted to apologize and I'm certain that won't go well if we pick the misandry option.
 
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Are we?

Just because we voted for something doesn't mean we're going to accomplish it succesfully.

Yep, we are. So, two points, one more fair, the name of the thing is, "Before It Gets Better", which implies that it does get better. Obvious narrative is, "This is Haruna hitting rock bottom and realizing she needs to do something."

Second, and I hope this is not overstepping the boundaries, but it is just presenting the choice we have accurately, so I hope it's not a problem to share the below. If so I will delete it.

horny ppl have NO rights[1]Yesterday at 5:10 PM

I mean, the vote is nipping the alcohol problem in the bud--this is kind of the last big hurrah before Haruna gets her shit together and stops drinking so much

but also it's like

not great to be constantly sloshed for weeks

[1] IE Artificial Girl
 
[X] Only the lonely

Ugh, it all sucks.
We're getting a lot of stress fairly constantly. Admittedly we are at war...
 
Yep, we are. So, two points, one more fair, the name of the thing is, "Before It Gets Better", which implies that it does get better. Obvious narrative is, "This is Haruna hitting rock bottom and realizing she needs to do something."

Second, and I hope this is not overstepping the boundaries, but it is just presenting the choice we have accurately, so I hope it's not a problem to share the below. If so I will delete it.

horny ppl have NO rights[1]Yesterday at 5:10 PM

I mean, the vote is nipping the alcohol problem in the bud--this is kind of the last big hurrah before Haruna gets her shit together and stops drinking so much

but also it's like

not great to be constantly sloshed for weeks

[1] IE Artificial Girl
Okay, that changes my vote, I figured the alchohol addiction would be a continuous thing, this makes it easily the least damaging option in my estimation, I'll go back and edit my post.
 
Okay, that changes my vote, I figured the alchohol addiction would be a continuous thing, this makes it easily the least damaging option in my estimation, I'll go back and edit my post.

Note, all of the options will do plenty of damage? It's about where the damage is, and how immediate the impact is. There are some that wouldn't do any damage... until she got back on shore and had to talk to the GF, or until she interacted with men who were at least theoretically her allies (though I assume that she'd be able to get over it given time.)
 
Note, all of the options will do plenty of damage? It's about where the damage is, and how immediate the impact is. There are some that wouldn't do any damage... until she got back on shore and had to talk to the GF, or until she interacted with men who were at least theoretically her allies (though I assume that she'd be able to get over it given time.)
Yeah, I know, all options are shit it just feels like it's safer to do an overdrinking because we know we can recover and while withdrawel will not be fun, I think it's better than deciding to bite the stress bullet but then also taking a breakdown which will be functionally the same in creating a ticking time bomb.

Also, @Artificial Girl, how dare you discriminate against horny people, this is very problematic and I'm gonna do a 24 tweet twitter callout about it now.
 
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse

Pile on, everybody! This looks like the best option, which almost certainly means it's the worst option, but it feels the most in character thing. I can't really see Haruna cheating, I'm afraid.
 
> horny ppl have NO rights

wow
such discrimination
Yeah, I know, all options are shit it just feels like it's safer to do an overdrinking because we know we can recover and while withdrawel will not be fun, I think it's better than deciding to bite the stress bullet but then also taking a breakdown which will be functionally the same in creating a ticking time bomb.

Also, @Artificial Girl, how dare you discriminate against horny people, this is very problematic and I'm gonna do a 24 tweet twitter callout about it now.

i'll have you know that i also have no rights

EDIT: Dammit I should have said "Bold of you to assume I have rights."
 
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Obviously if the vote winds up a tie, she goes on a bender for a week and a half, and then almost cheats, but then runs away dramatically at the last moment, half-naked, through the brothel.
 
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Tallying.

Come on guys, are we really doing this to our lady?
Adhoc vote count started by commando2341 on Sep 11, 2019 at 11:18 AM, finished with 75 posts and 32 votes.
 
[X] Before it gets better, it usually gets worse

Definitely continuing character trendlines.
 
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