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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] No

No's going to lose, but we were specifically ordered not to cause an incident. Haruna needs to resist, to all of our regret.
 
The boats passed by the finishing line in an instant
Huh. It just occurred to me that the judges couldn't instantly rewind the footage (if there's a video recording at all) to doublecheck the results. I guess it involved a lot more guesswork and debate.

To cause a diplomatic incident, or to not cause a diplomatic incident? :thonk:
Would it even cause an incident? I don't claim to understand all the different cultures in Europe, but I hear a lot of them are a lot more comfortable with kissing. I mean, would it even read as an inherently romantic kiss?

On the other hand, this is a different world so the culture could be different.

Oh, shit. What if there is some kind of 'morality clause' for athletes at the Atlas game? I don't want to cost the team their medal.

Could we write in that Haruna doesn't initiate a kiss with Aiko but reciprocates if she starts it?

Eh, screw it. Damn the torpedoes. Full gay ahead.
[X] Yes
 
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Would it even cause an incident? I don't claim to understand all the different cultures in Europe, but I hear a lot of them are a lot more comfortable with kissing. I mean, would it even read as an inherently romantic kiss?
The last time an Akitsukini girl kissed someone else at a major sports event, it led to 200 000 deaths.

Now, that relied on a bigotted Caspian prince and the fact that the Akitsukini's dress uniform includes an actual, fully functional blade, but still.

Edit : There's also the fact that Coralie's (from aircraft design quest) hobby was kissing girls and then duelling all the guys who objected with live steel.

Oh, shit. What if there is some kind of 'morality clause' for athletes at the Atlas game? I don't want to cost the team their medal.
Historically, the early Olympics were very "by the seat of your pants" with surprisingly little formal rules and a lot of improvisation. The Atlas games seem to be better organized, so they might actually have a formulated morality clause.

On the other hand, this would be a Europan morality clause, and as such it might fail to cover the current situation, focusing far more on interactions between men and women and just assuming that social convention keeps actions within a gender in line.

Edit : Do we know what ancient civilization the Atlas games got patterned off? Because knowing the worldbuilding and Gayaverse paradigm, there's not insignificant chance that the games took place on !Gaya Lesbos or a similar island. In which case we can argue we're following tradition.
 
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[X] Yes

Swordfighting lesbians are allowed to kiss their girlfriends when they win an Olympic medal. If anyone objects we will fight them, with our sword. Almost definitely win, too, most of these assholes have never even killed anybody.
 
[x] No

Haruna is quite aware of the pretext that started the Caspian-Akitsune war. The engineer lady noping out when she learned they're a couple is a reminder of how things stand on this side of Gaia.
 
[x] No

i hate this question and i hate this answer but. i dont want them to have to deal with europans abt this and if she loses them the medal then it's awful

they can kiss later, when its safe
 
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