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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] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.

Please, have it do a sexy ping noise when it opens:

 
[X] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.

The next time we go to batter someone i don't wanna have to draw our sword.
Only issue is, well.....

If that's a Webley firing .454, there's gonna be some recoil, so we best not miss.

That said, I loved it in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, so far as I'm concerned, let's get it.

[X] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.

[X] +1 Technical
 
[x] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.

If the facist revolver police will crack down on us, we might as well go all in on it.

What's the point of a revolver that shoots wee litte bullets?
 
[X] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.
 
[x] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.

Dat break-top.
 
[X] +1 Technical

[X] Type 33 revolver. The standard issue for the Navy and what you're familiar with. Reliable and easy to shoot. Fires the 9mm revolver round that is standard in your military.
K.I.S.S. is our friend.
 
[X] Type 33 revolver. The standard issue for the Navy and what you're familiar with. Reliable and easy to shoot. Fires the 9mm revolver round that is standard in your military.
 
[ ] Type 33 revolver. The standard issue for the Navy and what you're familiar with. Reliable and easy to shoot. Fires the 9mm revolver round that is standard in your military.

Probably the Not!Type 26 revolver.
Type 26 revolver - Wikipedia

[ ] Cochrane Constable Plus, a reliable New Alleghenian revolver available in both .32 and .38 caliber. You've heard good things about it in news stories from the West.

I think this is a Not!Colt Police Positive.
Colt Police Positive - Wikipedia

[ ] Wilkinson No. 5, a break-top revolver from Albia that fires the exceedingly large .454 Wilkinson round. Guaranteed to put someone down, or so it's been said.

Probably a Not!Webly of some variety.
Webley Revolver - Wikipedia

[ ] Sessions & White Model No. 9, another New Allegheny revolver available in .38 caliber.

Probably a Not!Smith & Wesson Model 10.
Smith & Wesson Model 10 - Wikipedia

Of these, I'd go for the Not!Colt in .38. It has a better safety than the Not!S&W. The Not!Type 26 is probably a rather middling design, and it's DAO. I don't know the details of the Not!Webley's safeties, but the British did decide historically that the .455 was actually too powerful of a round and went to a .38 for the models used in WW2.

The "manstopping" capabilities of handgun cartridges are all pretty much nonexistent. Shot placement is what matters, and that is easier with a lighter round. Going too small will result in problems with reliably penetrating far enough to hit vital organs, so it's probably best to avoid the .32s. .38 is a good caliber size.

[X] Cochrane Constable Plus, a reliable New Alleghenian revolver available in both .32 and .38 caliber. You've heard good things about it in news stories from the West.
-[X] In .38. Preferably the Special model if it's available (.38 Special is a good round).
 
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[X] +1 Prowess

[X] Type 33 revolver. The standard issue for the Navy and what you're familiar with. Reliable and easy to shoot. Fires the 9mm revolver round that is standard in your military.

How about we go for something where we can get ammo and parts easily, and a small enough caliber that we can control it when it fires? "Reliable" and "easy to shoot" outweigh just about all the advantages the non-standard side arms have, IMHO.
 
[X] +1 Prowess

[X] Type 33 revolver. The standard issue for the Navy and what you're familiar with. Reliable and easy to shoot. Fires the 9mm revolver round that is standard in your military.

How about we go for something where we can get ammo and parts easily, and a small enough caliber that we can control it when it fires? "Reliable" and "easy to shoot" outweigh just about all the advantages the non-standard side arms have, IMHO.
The Not!Type 26 probably has the same design flaw the actual Type 26 had: it's cylinder only locked in place while firing, meaning that it could inadvertently rotate to an already fired round. It's an inferior design to the other offerings.

Anyway, as a naval officer, Haruna shouldn't be using her sidearm enough to have running out of ammo be a concern, and all the designs are unlikely to have parts breakage.
 
[X] +1 Diplomacy

[X] Cochrane Constable Plus, a reliable New Alleghenian revolver available in both .32 and .38 caliber. You've heard good things about it in news stories from the West.
-[X] Buy two in .32.
 
[X] Type 33 revolver. The standard issue for the Navy and what you're familiar with. Reliable and easy to shoot. Fires the 9mm revolver round that is standard in your military.

Slightly horrified by the perfect replica Webley BB gun at the end of that video.
 
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