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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] That Aiko might not be prepared for what becoming part of Haruna's family entails.
 
[X] That she might die and leave Aiko alone.

The first option is something which is both entirely out of anyone's control and also paralyzing, while the third is patronizing. The middle one seems the most honest and is also something that we can work through together.
 
This sequence was absolutely beautiful. Thanks for writing it for us.

[X] That she might die and leave Aiko alone.
 
[X] That Aiko might not be prepared for what becoming part of Haruna's family entails.
 
[X] That she might die and leave Aiko alone.

the third is patronizing
Precisely my problem - we definitely need to talk to Aiko at some point to be absolutely sure she understands and is prepared for there to literally be assassins coming after her, but this isn't the way to do it.

[X] That she might die and leave Aiko alone.
 
I really love the sense of melancholy here.

Voting for the running theme of the relationship-
[x] That Aiko might not be prepared for what becoming part of Haruna's family entails.
 
How well timed, Atlas Games update during the Olympics. How's Akitsukuni doing, grabbed any medals? Very good atmospheric piece in the palace ruins, melancholy is certainly right.

[X] That Aiko might not be prepared for what becoming part of Haruna's family entails.

This is certainly the longest term fear which is why I'm picking it cause I feel that's the most interesting to have to confront. The upcoming war will presumably end, Haruna will presumably survive and that'll go towards lessening the first two fears holding her back but the third is one that she'll have no choice but to actively confront rather than delay since Aiko is not likely to become suitably prepared for royal life.
 
[X] That Aiko might not be prepared for what becoming part of Haruna's family entails.

This is the danger that Haruna can actually do something about, and it does need to be taken seriously. Imperial Japanese politics of this era are, shall we say, rather pointed at times.
 
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