Castles of Steel - Lesbians Good, Imperialism Bad

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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​


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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] 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.
[X] +1 Diplomacy
 
[X] +1 Diplomacy

As or the revolver, okay, tactical voting time. I don't think we should buy her a giant handcannon on the basis of notions about people walking off 9mm bullets to the chest or whatever, since frankly I think she's more likely to run into problems handling the recoil from bulk than she is to run into problems from lack of stopping power. Which means, given that the Constable Plus and the S&W are out of the running...

[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.
 
Hey, can this be approval voting for the revolver purchase? This is an extremely critical decision we have to make after all, being a naval officer and all. :V
 
[x] Sessions & White Model No. 9, another New Allegheny revolver available in .38 caliber.

Everybody voting for one of the Alleghenian revolvers should swap over to only one, they're both better choices than the Akitsikuni one and the Alt!Webley, but the vote's getting seriously split.
 
natruska said:
[x] Sessions & White Model No. 9, another New Allegheny revolver available in .38 caliber.

Everybody voting for one of the Alleghenian revolvers should swap over to only one, they're both better choices than the Akitsikuni one and the Alt!Webley, but the vote's getting seriously split.
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Do you not have faith in your glorious Akitsukuni revolver folded over 10,000 times?
 
[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] +1 Diplomacy

[x] Sessions & White Model No. 9, another New Allegheny revolver available in .38 caliber.
 
HMS Sophia said:
I don't know about you but I don't particularly think Haruna should be getting involved in unsanctioned wetwork.
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You never know when you need someone dead...
Though, if we want to be prepared on that front, it would be better to acquire several handguns from that captured gunrunner under the table in addition to our official sidearm, on the basis of ¨Killed your target - throw the gun overboard¨. Or, at least, look for Not!Nagant M1895, as it's numerous faults would be outweighted by the fact that we can supress it.

So, can we acquire a crate of handguns from that smuggler under the table, and is Not!Nagant M1895 available?
 
Dwergar said:
You never know when you need someone dead...
Though, if we want to be prepared on that front, it would be better to acquire several handguns from that captured gunrunner under the table in addition to our official sidearm, on the basis of ¨Killed your target - throw the gun overboard¨. Or, at least, look for Not!Nagant M1895, as it's numerous faults would be outweighted by the fact that we can supress it.

So, can we acquire a crate of handguns from that smuggler under the table, and is Not!Nagant M1895 available?
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But why? Like, frankly, there might end up being people need to kill. There are more options to leverage than a disposable weapon, like the fact we're an imperial princess or an officer or a woman. All of those things can be brought into play if we happen to need to kill someone.
 
[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.
 
Dwergar said:
You never know when you need someone dead...
Though, if we want to be prepared on that front, it would be better to acquire several handguns from that captured gunrunner under the table in addition to our official sidearm, on the basis of ¨Killed your target - throw the gun overboard¨. Or, at least, look for Not!Nagant M1895, as it's numerous faults would be outweighted by the fact that we can supress it.

So, can we acquire a crate of handguns from that smuggler under the table, and is Not!Nagant M1895 available?
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No.

For one, acquiring a crate of handguns from a captured smuggling vessel is extremely illegal. Second, Haruna is not planning on acquiring a suppressible firearm for some bizarre reason. It wouldn't even occur to her that that's a thing someone might do (See: Technical 8). Thirdly, she considers herself a warrior and an honorable one at that who is descended from a long line of nobility and honorable warrior-empresses and others. She would not consider that she might need to do a clandestine murder.

She would not approach her problems in this way. It completely contravenes her upbringing and worldview and violates the societal ethos she follows.
 
[X] +1 Diplomacy
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Fine with either of these winning, but if Approval Voting is not in effect I'll go Diplomacy.
I can't read, apparently.

[x] Type 33
Something something Availability.
 
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[X] Sessions & White Model No. 9, another New Allegheny revolver available in .38 caliber.
[X] +1 Technical

If Haruna needs someone murdered she can hire a ninja like a sensible princess.
 
Come on people, what's the point of having a itty bitty revolver?

That's what those fancy automatics are for!

Besides, this is the navy. This is the realm where a tank's main gun is little more than garnishing to the murder-salad.

Think about this: we'd certainly want sixteen inch cannons in our battleships. This is the sixteen inch cannon in the pistol world. The logic is flawless.

[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 Diplomacy
 
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