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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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"Signalling subtly" is Subterfuge, isn't it?
Yeah. No need to overthink this. Sketch outright says what's required for each woman in the last line of each of Haruna's descriptions.
Want's to be wow'd by forward action and initiative."
Prowess
Will require a careful, tactical approach so you don't scare her off before you get into range."
Tactics
We'll need a good strategy."
Strategy
We'll need to signal her subtly..."
Subterfuge
We just gotta talk her into it.
Diplomacy
 
[X] The Bookish One

I was sold at adorable.

Anyway, I think Haruna should look into if the deceased Captain has any surviving dependents and if so, she should try to make sure they get given a stipend of some sort if they can't support themselves. This would both assuage her guilt somewhat and worsen it while also further driving home the whole "you are responsible for people's lives" thing. Long term, I'd like to see her push for some sort of death compensation system for the military to be set up.

I also favor Haruna eventually pushing for Not!Korea to get fully integrated into the Not!Japanese Empire. Like, full citizenship rights and Diet representation and everything. This is a fairly American point of view, but I figure that if there's gonna be empire, it might as well be done right. If it somehow actually happens, this would hopefully make further Imperial conquests, especially in Not!China, less attractive because there would be an expectation of integration and that would pull power away from the groups that would have it then.
 
[X] The Classy Businesswoman.

Businesswoman all the way. Speaking from experience, once you get past the initial hurdle of how to make the intimidating lady give you the time of day, you're talking about someone who actually wants to put in the work for the things they want. If that thing is Ken, then he is set.
 
That is what vibrators looked like back when they were marketed as a cure for "hysteria" and were supposed to be applied to muscles rather than genitals. Look, you can even see the label on the right-hand picture.
"Supposed to" the same way the modern Hitachi is "supposed to" lol
 
During research for this joke (yes I know shut up) I was informed of a contemporary pneumatic vibrator which once exploded during operation.

You're welcome.
 
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