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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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Naw, we're drunk, angry, drunk and pissed on our girl's behalf.


[ ] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.

Let them know we know exactly what they said, and in a way which more diplomatic people probably could pretend they didn't get what happened because oh dear they didn't understand a word, but it was so passionate.
 
[ ] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.

The flirting option has an elegance to it but I don't think I'm happy with Haruna aggressively flirting with someone who isn't interested in order to be mean to them.
 
The flirting option has an elegance to it but I don't think I'm happy with Haruna aggressively flirting with someone who isn't interested in order to be mean to them.
Yeah uh, let's not sexually harass the Dyske ambassador just because it would be funny...

[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.
 
It's also worth thinking about the message it sends to them. We're mad because they assume we don't love Aiko so we're going to get back at them by hitting on another girl?

The more I think about this option the less I like it.
 
[ ] Go ask one of the Imperial Guard to remove them. You think you heard them discussing some very insulting things about the Empress, clearly they need to be interrogated to make sure they're not secretly in league with anarchists.
 
[X] This guy probably doesn't know you speak Dyske, right? You can just pretend you didn't understand. And you can also pretend that the lady he's talking to is more attractive and less of a piece of garbage than she actually is. Maybe if you flirt hard enough she'll get angry and cause a scene herself. Or catch fire. That'd be nice. Who cares? It's New Year's Eve.

@open_sketch @Artificial Girl How much time left (in-universe) until we reach up with ADC timeline for Koide's wedding?
 
[X] This guy probably doesn't know you speak Dyske, right? You can just pretend you didn't understand. And you can also pretend that the lady he's talking to is more attractive and less of a piece of garbage than she actually is. Maybe if you flirt hard enough she'll get angry and cause a scene herself. Or catch fire. That'd be nice. Who cares? It's New Year's Eve.
 
[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.
 
[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.
 
[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve
 
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[x] This guy probably doesn't know you speak Dyske, right? You can just pretend you didn't understand. And you can also pretend that the lady he's talking to is more attractive and less of a piece of garbage than she actually is. Maybe if you flirt hard enough she'll get angry and cause a scene herself. Or catch fire. That'd be nice. Who cares? It's New Year's Eve
-[x] See if Aiko is alright with this, or better yet, wants in on it
--[x] Do it in Dyske
 
[X] This guy probably doesn't know you speak Dyske, right? You can just pretend you didn't understand. And you can also pretend that the lady he's talking to is more attractive and less of a piece of garbage than she actually is. Maybe if you flirt hard enough she'll get angry and cause a scene herself. Or catch fire. That'd be nice. Who cares? It's New Year's Eve.

@open_sketch @Artificial Girl How much time left (in-universe) until we reach up with ADC timeline for Koide's wedding?

We are closing in! A few months to go iirc.
 
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[X] This guy probably doesn't know you speak Dyske, right? You can just pretend you didn't understand. And you can also pretend that the lady he's talking to is more attractive and less of a piece of garbage than she actually is. Maybe if you flirt hard enough she'll get angry and cause a scene herself. Or catch fire. That'd be nice. Who cares? It's New Year's Eve.
 
It's also worth thinking about the message it sends to them. We're mad because they assume we don't love Aiko so we're going to get back at them by hitting on another girl?

The more I think about this option the less I like it.
I'm suprised the option is that popular tbh.

They think Aiko is just some random girl we picked up of the street for the night, and to disprove that we're going to act like she's just some disposable girl, to be exchanged for the first Europan we find.
 
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[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve
 
Incidentally, this insult is coming from an army officer of the same rank as us. Now, given that he's army, that means he's actually a lower rank (it doesn't, but let's not let facts bother us).

Can we try ordering him around?
Heck, we can rub it in his face that we stood our ground when the army bravely ran away.
 
I...

Go for broke.
[X] Break his nose. He won't see it coming, and he has it coming. Technically he's the same rank as you, too, so you wouldn't get in trouble for assaulting a superior officer. Just a regular officer. A bad officer. Who cares? It's New Years Eve.
 
[X] Don't lose your cool and tell these two in nice, courtly, oblique Dyske that they're horrible pieces of shit
- [X] DON'T lose your cool
-- [X] Haru, that was the shouting match I was trying not to vote for

Get this doofus to take the first swing, and then it's not our fault! :)
 
[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.

I'm going with this one because the flirting option without the modifiers is winning.

[X] Don't lose your cool and tell these two in nice, courtly, oblique Dyske that they're horrible pieces of shit
- [X] DON'T lose your cool
-- [X] Haru, that was the shouting match I was trying not to vote for
 
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[X] Don't lose your cool and tell these two in nice, courtly, oblique Dyske that they're horrible pieces of shit
- [X] DON'T lose your cool
-- [X] Haru, that was the shouting match I was trying not to vote for
 
The simpler choice
[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.

The funnier choice
[X] Don't lose your cool and tell these two in nice, courtly, oblique Dyske that they're horrible pieces of shit
- [X] DON'T lose your cool
-- [X] Haru, that was the shouting match I was trying not to vote for
 
[X] You know what every good party needs? A screaming match. And Dyske is the perfect language for yelling at other people. It's so… loud. And angry. ANd STUPID. Beautiful language. Like poetry. It'll be completely undignified, but who cares? It's New Years Eve.

[X] Don't lose your cool and tell these two in nice, courtly, oblique Dyske that they're horrible pieces of shit
- [X] DON'T lose your cool
-- [X] Haru, that was the shouting match I was trying not to vote for
 
[X] Don't lose your cool and tell these two in nice, courtly, oblique Dyske that they're horrible pieces of shit
- [X] DON'T lose your cool
-- [X] Haru, that was the shouting match I was trying not to vote for
 
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