As with
all other skill checks, I rule the
specific outcome of Combat checks by fiat, derived from the magnitude of difference in results. In general, I take the average of what the character intends, and the margin why which they succeed. Somebody wants to subdue their opponent non-lethally, but won only by one? They add some bruises to their opponent. Somebody wants to vaporize their opponent, and wins by 152? They vaporize their opponent.
Anyway, writing now.
Duly noted and acknowledged. My takeaway from this is that it doesn't sound as if bodily damage is really tracked in this system, except perhaps insofar as it causes cumulative stat penalties inflicted by "beat the enemy up." So, for instance, Frieza might suffer a penalty in the next round of combat due to pain and minor organic damage from being beaten up by Goku in the round we just rolled?
No, that would be Jaffur.
I'm not sure Jaffur's willpower applies as broadly as Kakara's. I suspect there are areas where he'd just
shatter mentally, whereas Kakara can hold herself together under a much broader range of circumstances. Jaffur's willpower is very specifically built around making him hard to stop in a fight, but that's not exactly the same thing.
Also, +10 comes from "A Cause". So I don't really count it, as said willpower is lost the moment it's completed. And consider her low Base Willpower, which went up from 5 to 8 during Year 2 I believe, and then only improved to 9 in Year 6(this year).
Look, I can't comment on base willpower, but traits very much count towards who a character is
right now. They're the reason, for instance, why a Kakara who'd reached middling rank in Tien Style would still be utterly unable to defeat Yammar in a fair fist fight, despite having comparable (Exceptional-ranked) Dueling and comparable-ish ranks in identical styles.
Counterplan: We train every ruler with the Genki Dama and the rules for controlling Spirit Saiyan. Then, the more FPSSJ you get, the better - they're the fastest voters!
We can't reliably train people in how to use the Spirit Bomb. Telling people how it works makes it actively harder for them to learn it themselves, and it requires a philosophy and mental outlook not everyone (arguably not even
most) of the royals will be able to match.
The first time, you didn't need it, so Kakara would enter a padded cell at the conclusion of the fight at her own insistence.
The second time, it wouldn't actually have helped.
What would have happened? Would she at least have died?
Well, Dandeer'd be
dead and presumably unable to cast any more super-spells unless she had a death curse prepped (possible but unknown).
On the other hand, Yammar might well have just blitzed in and torn us apart in hand to hand without us even being able to
flee. This is distinctly possible.
So it'd effectively be a Bad End to the quest. Not
Worst End from our point of view, but consider:
1) Dandeer's likely dead. If she has death curses they go off, we don't know if she did or not. Ignore that possibility for now.
2) Kakara's likely dead. With the mind control spell in place, Yammar's probably rather fond of Dandeer, inasmuch as he remembers ever cookie she ever baked and every time she ever smiled while holding his little baby grandson, but none of the horrible shit she's done to all and sundry including himself.
3) Yammar does NOT like people killing family members. Kakara wouldn't even be the
first thirteen year old girl he's personally murdered to avenge a loved one. And we've given him much more cause to want to avenge a loved one than any of the Talts.
4) Berra is
STILL in pain so great he's beyond screaming. The only person who knows what happened to him is Dandelor, who Yammar and Vegeta may well want to punish or even kill. He will likely remain in pain for way, WAY too long, and may well be broken by the experience. If he's not, there will almost certainly be further fighting after he wakes up.
5) Apra is unconscious and may die fighting when she wakes up and finds out Yammar killed Kakara. Or she may be utterly broken mentally by what's happened to her family, given how she reacted when she saw us get shot.
6) This leaves Yammar, Vegeta, and Jaffur. Yammar and Vegeta now face a variety of problems.
Jaffur hates his mother for reasons his father and grandfather can't even understand (because the mind control is still there). He hates his father for reasons they CAN understand. He hates them EVEN MORE for Yammar killing Kakara, because he has that weird kuudere thing going for us. Him going berserk is probable. Him going berserk
and Super-Saiyan Two is far from unlikely. Because it's basically the end of the Cell Games, with him cast as a much angrier version of Gohan, and us cast as Android 16.
Depending on who regains consciousness and in what order, several disastrous one-on-two or two-on-two super saiyan fights are possible. It's going to be VERY BAD, and will probably end with one or more of the other five royals dead, because no one involved has any incentive to hold back anymore. We cannot predict who will be left standing at the end, if anyone, because "they all kill each other off and the last one standing dies of his wounds" is far from inconceivable.
The civil war among the royals will throw Exile society into chaos. Depending on who does what and who kills who, a thousand possible outcomes could result. It will be Very Bad.
Anything that Kakara would be pivotal in the future (e.g. using her Sight and Spirit Saiyan powers to defend Garenhuld) is obviously no longer possible. So there's that, too.
In short, the most likely outcome I foresee is Quest Over, Bad End, if the plan is "let Yammar vaporize Dandeer," because I'm pretty sure we'd be dead before Jaffur/Jaron even regains consciousness.
