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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] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!
 
[x] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!
 
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
Honestly, I feel like we're going to be more suspicious in small talk than we are in being really straightforward in being interested in Naval Fire Control. There's actually an opportunity to do a really neat thing and bore Aiko half to tears talking about hull forms before apologising to her and turning the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...

This!
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...
 
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...

Officially adding my idea as a write-in, then.
 
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...
 
[X] Just be friendly and make smalltalk.
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...

The Otrusians are interesting, they recognize people that others wouldn't notice, I'd just love to hear what these people in particular did to set them apart. Clearly it makes sense to ask the naval engineer, so we can get a feel for the caliber of person they're announcing. And oh wow, I bet Aiko would be fascinated by your accomplishments!
 
Ooooh, yes!

[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...
 
[x] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!

For everyone voting to bring Aiko along as an excuse to talk about computes, I'm pretty sure the fire-control computers are mechanical analog computers, not electrical analog, and she'd still probably be bored.
 
They might be using diesel-electric generators? IDK.

Edit: Hmm... looking at it, this would probably be a few years early. Whatever, if it wins I'm sure she'll find something interesting in the conversation. Certainly more than talking to anybody else.
 
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[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...
 
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...

Nerd powers, ACTIVATE!
 
[x] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!
 
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...
 
[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
-[X] Drag Aiko along for a really boring conversation about hull forms, then apologise and turn the conversation to something electrical, for her sake. Like computers...
 
[x] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!

For everyone voting to bring Aiko along as an excuse to talk about computes, I'm pretty sure the fire-control computers are mechanical analog computers, not electrical analog, and she'd still probably be bored.
The actual fire control 'tables' are fully mechanical computers, but I believe the input information and output firing commands are passed around electronically. As I've said before, we don't actually need to know precisely what's inside the computer, having a full list of inputs and outputs probably gets us what we need.
 
The actual fire control 'tables' are fully mechanical computers, but I believe the input information and output firing commands are passed around electronically. As I've said before, we don't actually need to know precisely what's inside the computer, having a full list of inputs and outputs probably gets us what we need.

Who wants way too much out of character info on the workings of fire control 'tables', 'range clocks', and all those other fun things? :p

Honestly, if you're into proper electronics engineering you probably get enough that the math that's being represented is fascinating, and a decent number of things are already being relayed automatically, enough that you could bring them up and mention the exceptions. Things are a lot less sophisticated than they'll become though.
 
Who wants way too much out of character info on the workings of fire control 'tables', 'range clocks', and all those other fun things? :p
*raises arm*
*raises other arm*
*raises foot*
*raises mutated third arm*

[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it would be suspicious!
I'm generally sceptical of clever write-ins, I've found them to usually be less clever than foreseen (and I prefer seeing what the QM(s) can come up with with slightly less direct steering)
 
Aww, shucks. Now I want to seduce her.

[X] Talk to her about navy stuff. You have a good excuse for doing so, it wouldn't be suspicious!
 
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