Kakara is strong willed, but she is not proud. If it fits her goals she is very willing to bow her head, lose a fight, talk nicely with someone she hates or not challenging lies told about her. I don't think they understand that.
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Also she would feel no shame from losing against a super Saiyan when she isn't one.
Edit edit: They should have guessed something like that when Kakara was happy for Jaffur becoming a super Saiyan even before her.
Omake time:
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Trunks looked down at the scroll, stunned.
"No." He said, his voice weak from the shock. "Say that this is just a joke."
"I'm sorry Trunks," said the woman sitting across from him, her red hair falling over her eyes. "It's true."
"You're lying!" Trunks yelled, as he leaped out of his chair and loomed over the short woman. For a second it seemed as if he would grab her, but then the fight seemed to go out of him and he collapsed back into the chair. "You have to be lying. This can't be true. It can't."
The woman reached over as if to comfort him, but her hand stopped just short of his shoulder. There were just some things you just had to bear alone... the final death of your planet was one such thing. She slowly brought her hand back down, and the two of them sat in silence. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Trunks spoke.
"Supreme Kai of Time... isn't there anything we can do?"
The Kai in question shook her head. "This point in time cannot be changed."
"But..."
She held up her hand, silencing him. "I said cannot, not will not." She paused to gesture around them, at the ruins of what had once been the great Conton City.
"Look around you, Trunks. The days when we faced Mira and Towa are long gone. Our champions are dead, the time patrol shattered. I don't know if you've noticed, but we have only twelve patrollers left... including you and me. Aside from you, the next strongest patroller could barely beat Dodoria on a good day. And your hair is more white than purple these days."
Trunks shook his head, his hair swinging in front of his eyes. The grey he saw really brought it home. She was right... somehow when he wasn't looking, in the last fifty years he had spent working with the Time Patrol and fighting the great battles of history, he had gotten old. "But surely the Kais..."
"The Kais," She scoffed, her pink skin shining an almost red hue in her rage, "can do nothing. The directional Kais, and even the Grand Kai himself, are truly non-combat administrators in the grand scheme of things. I'd be surprised if all of them together could match Cell in his first form. The young Supreme Kai? Feh, even as he is today he would barely stand up to Buu at his weakest. Elder Kai? He's good with magics and tactics, but you could have wiped the floor with him when you were twelve."
The Supreme Kai of Time then gestured to herself, a self-deprecating smile on her face.
"And me? I'm not nearly that good at fighting. That's why I found you, remember?"
Trunks' head fell. "The Gods?" He asked, already knowing the answer.
The Supreme Kai of Time's answer still hurt when he heard it. "We'll get no help from them. Of them, only those who were once mortal but have fully ascended would have been able to help... and I have heard that your Earthling-Saiyan 'come back to life repeatedly' escapades have angered those upstairs so much that both Goku and Vegeta have been placed in an impenetrable box to keep them from doing just that. And as we just saw, Gohan just wasn't enough even with divine ki. I'm sorry Trunks, but there's just no way to save Earth."
Trunks exploded. "Then why show me that? Why force me through this hell if there's nothing we can do?"
The Kai smiled, though it was a weak one. "Because there is a future for your people after all."
She held out another scroll, this one different. Wrapped in a shimmering void, it seemed as though you were staring into infinity whilst looking at it... and written on the front was one word: TOMORROW. Trunks took it, and opened it up. Looking at the inside of the scroll, he saw history yet unwritten flash before his eyes. The descendants of the Saiyans, fleeing through the stars. Their arrival on a foreign world, to hide in fear from the one they knew as "the Enemy." Of their ups and their downs, of their sunderings and reconciliations. Of a surly Scion of House Vegeta named Jaffur, and of the trial he would face. Of a spunky Scion of House Goku named Kakara, and the beginning of her grand adventure. And then... he saw nothing.
He turned to his companion, frowning. "It ends. Why does it end? Do they all die?"
The Supreme Kai of Time sighed. "I don't know. It ends, Trunks, because the future me that writes the scrolls is no longer around to write the history. THAT BEING that your people call The Enemy will come for me. He will find me and kill me to get at Tokitoki. You of all people should know how much power Tokitoki has. Tokitoki will not allow THAT BEING to have him. When I fall protecting him, he will kill himself. THAT BEING will not get his way… and that is when we strike."
Trunks laughed, though it was weak and forced. "So you do have a plan."
His companion nodded. "Yes, though not much of one. When Tokitoki and myself die, we will both release massive amounts of energy. Not enough to hurt THAT BEING, but enough to break the boundaries of space and dimensions."
At this she paused, reaching over to a nearby table and retrieving a glass of water that had been all but forgotten in the discussion they had just had. Taking a sip, she continued.
"As we are speaking, the remainder of the time patrollers are working on a device… a 'package' or 'bubble,' if you will. When I die, I will use the last of my energy to send that bubble through the dimensions, right towards your people's chosen world."
"And what will you send?" Asked Trunks. "Power? Information? Techniques? Magic?"
The Kai shook her head. "Nothing so powerful, I'm afraid. I will only have one chance at this, after all, and I cannot let THAT BEING gain even the slightest hint of what I'm doing. He must not be able to follow the package back to your people. No the package- invisible, intangible and ephemeral- will contain only the slightest of things: hopes, dreams, faith, belief, and wishes."
At this, Trunks stopped and scoffed. "Hopes and wishes? That's your big plan? What can they do?"
The Supreme Kai of Time stood and faced the horizon. Sun was setting on Conton City, the sky a mass of oranges and reds. Though there was time left still in the day, the dark was almost upon them.
"Quite a lot, Trunks, quite a lot. I've been alive for over 75 million years, and I've seen things few others alive have. It was belief in an unbelievable legend and a selfish wish for a boyfriend that led a blue-haired genius teenager out of her front door and into a chance encounter with a nearly-feral monkey mountain boy. It was belief in an untested boy that led to Gohan's ascension to the second level of the Super-Saiyan form and the defeat of the monster known as Cell. So no Trunks… I may not be sending any power, but faith has a power all its own. I may not be sending any magic, but dreams can be more magical than any spell. Trust, bravery, hope… these are things which are difficult to quantify, but can win battles just as well as technology or tactics. Besides…"
She turned, shooting a cheeky grin at her long time subordinate and friend. "With as much as you have seen, as much as you've experienced, you should know just how powerful a single wish can be."
Not to the death, no. To the point of desperation. As a Super Saiyan, Jaffur could have prevented Kakara even from raising her fingers to her head; he was just that fast, by comparison. They hoped he could pin her there for long enough that she had a choice between losing in front of everybody she knew, and transforming.
How skilled does she have to get with instance transmission before she doesn't have to do that anymore? Seems odd that it is needed in the first place. The reason it was in the manga was to let the readers know that Goku was using it instead of superspeed otherwise they both look the same.
I just thought of a way for Kakara to use her ki sense in combat. Fight the person from a distance (like a planet away). We should try and come up with long range attacks.
Ki attacks are not instantaneous, and if you want the planet intact, you need your technique to curve around the planet. Or somehow teleport itself, which seems very energy-intensive.
How skilled does she have to get with instance transmission before she doesn't have to do that anymore? Seems odd that it is needed in the first place. The reason it was in the manga was to let the readers know that Goku was using it instead of superspeed otherwise they both look the same.
Ki attacks are not instantaneous, and if you want the planet intact, you need your technique to curve around the planet. Or somehow teleport itself, which seems very energy-intensive.
I see no reason we can't figure out how to make ki attacks go at light speed. Also or why teleporting attacks should be energy intensive. Instance transmission does not seem to be.
Omake time:
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Trunks looked down at the scroll, stunned.
"No." He said, his voice weak from the shock. "Say that this is just a joke."
"I'm sorry Trunks," said the woman sitting across from him, her red hair falling over her eyes. "It's true."
"You're lying!" Trunks yelled, as he leaped out of his chair and loomed over the short woman. For a second it seemed as if he would grab her, but then the fight seemed to go out of him and he collapsed back into the chair. "You have to be lying. This can't be true. It can't."
The woman reached over as if to comfort him, but her hand stopped just short of his shoulder. There were just some things you just had to bear alone... the final death of your planet was one such thing. She slowly brought her hand back down, and the two of them sat in silence. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Trunks spoke.
"Supreme Kai of Time... isn't there anything we can do?"
The Kai in question shook her head. "This point in time cannot be changed."
"But..."
She held up her hand, silencing him. "I said cannot, not will not." She paused to gesture around them, at the ruins of what had once been the great Conton City.
"Look around you, Trunks. The days when we faced Mira and Towa are long gone. Our champions are dead, the time patrol shattered. I don't know if you've noticed, but we have only twelve patrollers left... including you and me. Aside from you, the next strongest patroller could barely beat Dodoria on a good day. And your hair is more white than purple these days."
Trunks shook his head, his hair swinging in front of his eyes. The grey he saw really brought it home. She was right... somehow when he wasn't looking, in the last fifty years he had spent working with the Time Patrol and fighting the great battles of history, he had gotten old. "But surely the Kais..."
"The Kais," She scoffed, her pink skin shining an almost red hue in her rage, "can do nothing. The directional Kais, and even the Grand Kai himself, are truly non-combat administrators in the grand scheme of things. I'd be surprised if all of them together could match Cell in his first form. The young Supreme Kai? Feh, even as he is today he would barely stand up to Buu at his weakest. Elder Kai? He's good with magics and tactics, but you could have wiped the floor with him when you were twelve."
The Supreme Kai of Time then gestured to herself, a self-deprecating smile on her face.
"And me? I'm not nearly that good at fighting. That's why I found you, remember?"
Trunks' head fell. "The Gods?" He asked, already knowing the answer.
The Supreme Kai of Time's answer still hurt when he heard it. "We'll get no help from them. Of them, only those who were once mortal but have fully ascended would have been able to help... and I have heard that your Earthling-Saiyan 'come back to life repeatedly' escapades have angered those upstairs so much that both Goku and Vegeta have been placed in an impenetrable box to keep them from doing just that. And as we just saw, Gohan just wasn't enough even with divine ki. I'm sorry Trunks, but there's just no way to save Earth."
Trunks exploded. "Then why show me that? Why force me through this hell if there's nothing we can do?"
The Kai smiled, though it was a weak one. "Because there is a future for your people after all."
She held out another scroll, this one different. Wrapped in a shimmering void, it seemed as though you were staring into infinity whilst looking at it... and written on the front was one word: TOMORROW. Trunks took it, and opened it up. Looking at the inside of the scroll, he saw history yet unwritten flash before his eyes. The descendants of the Saiyans, fleeing through the stars. Their arrival on a foreign world, to hide in fear from the one they knew as "the Enemy." Of their ups and their downs, of their sunderings and reconciliations. Of a surly Scion of House Vegeta named Jaffur, and of the trial he would face. Of a spunky Scion of House Goku named Kakara, and the beginning of her grand adventure. And then... he saw nothing.
He turned to his companion, frowning. "It ends. Why does it end? Do they all die?"
The Supreme Kai of Time sighed. "I don't know. It ends, Trunks, because the future me that writes the scrolls is no longer around to write the history. THAT BEING that your people call The Enemy will come for me. He will find me and kill me to get at Tokitoki. You of all people should know how much power Tokitoki has. Tokitoki will not allow THAT BEING to have him. When I fall protecting him, he will kill himself. THAT BEING will not get his way… and that is when we strike."
Trunks laughed, though it was weak and forced. "So you do have a plan."
His companion nodded. "Yes, though not much of one. When Tokitoki and myself die, we will both release massive amounts of energy. Not enough to hurt THAT BEING, but enough to break the boundaries of space and dimensions."
At this she paused, reaching over to a nearby table and retrieving a glass of water that had been all but forgotten in the discussion they had just had. Taking a sip, she continued.
"As we are speaking, the remainder of the time patrollers are working on a device… a 'package' or 'bubble,' if you will. When I die, I will use the last of my energy to send that bubble through the dimensions, right towards your people's chosen world."
"And what will you send?" Asked Trunks. "Power? Information? Techniques? Magic?"
The Kai shook her head. "Nothing so powerful, I'm afraid. I will only have one chance at this, after all, and I cannot let THAT BEING gain even the slightest hint of what I'm doing. He must not be able to follow the package back to your people. No the package- invisible, intangible and ephemeral- will contain only the slightest of things: hopes, dreams, faith, belief, and wishes."
At this, Trunks stopped and scoffed. "Hopes and wishes? That's your big plan? What can they do?"
The Supreme Kai of Time stood and faced the horizon. Sun was setting on Conton City, the sky a mass of oranges and reds. Though there was time left still in the day, the dark was almost upon them.
"Quite a lot, Trunks, quite a lot. I've been alive for over 75 million years, and I've seen things few others alive have. It was belief in an unbelievable legend and a selfish wish for a boyfriend that led a blue-haired genius teenager out of her front door and into a chance encounter with a nearly-feral monkey mountain boy. It was belief in an untested boy that led to Gohan's ascension to the second level of the Super-Saiyan form and the defeat of the monster known as Cell. So no Trunks… I may not be sending any power, but faith has a power all its own. I may not be sending any magic, but dreams can be more magical than any spell. Trust, bravery, hope… these are things which are difficult to quantify, but can win battles just as well as technology or tactics. Besides…"
She turned, shooting a cheeky grin at her long time subordinate and friend. "With as much as you have seen, as much as you've experienced, you should know just how powerful a single wish can be."
Now: Given various things that (most of) you folks aren't privy to, that's not canon. But then, most of you aren't privy to that. So this brilliant piece of writing get a "compliant!" Thanks for contributing, ElleonXan. Your greater bonus: A bonus towards breaking out of a bad system.
And there you have why the Clan system is a thing. Garla believed, and successfully convinced everybody, that the only way to prevent that was to have somebody whose job it was to specifically prevent things like that.
And there you have why the Clan system is a thing. Garla believed, and successfully convinced everybody, that the only way to prevent that was to have somebody whose job it was to specifically prevent things like that.
I just thought of a way for Kakara to use her ki sense in combat. Fight the person from a distance (like a planet away). We should try and come up with long range attacks.
We can approximate this right now by ITing in and out of combat and spamming Kamehamehas. (IT is more likely unique to us than ki sensing, so it's also more likely to give us an edge). And the aliens probably have better long-range weapons than us if they've been fighting space-battles, so we could steal those and incorporate them in the future.
Yup. They certainly have the reflexes for it. And by now saiyans have become successfully taught that they haven't a hope of achieving anything in the open, anyway. So they go to the Training Hall for their knock-down, drag-out, all-out fights instead.
Update is now going into the text box for final editing. I will also be seeing friends tonight as an organic opportunity to step away and come back later, so you will see the update in a few hours. Do not expect responses until the update is up.
So that's yet another cool thing we want locked behind Elite Ki Talents! With Multiform now being under Ki Talents too, I suspect it'll feature heavily in our next training plan.
So that's yet another cool thing we want locked behind Elite Kit Talents! With Multiform now being under Ki Talents too, I suspect it'll feature heavily in our next training plan.
IIRC, we need to achieve mastery in a martial arts style that has it as an involved technique to unlock higher skill levels. So if we want Multiform we need Tenshinhan, and if we want IT we need Goku.
IIRC, we need to achieve mastery in a martial arts style that has it as an involved technique to unlock higher skill levels. So if we want Multiform we need Tenshinhan, and if we want IT we need Goku.
I didn't know that. Did we ever make a list of WOGs that aren't threadmarked?
If we train Flight up a level to Exceptional - or two non-core skills to Exceptional, such as Multiform and something else - Ki Talents will hit Exceptional, and then we can find out what it takes to level it to Elite, at which point not only should it be easier to level skills to Elite (possibly reducing the prerequisites?) but we will also be able to research some super cool stuff, such as Ki Invisibility.
[X] "Hopeful" : Above all things, Kakara hopes and believes in making tomorrow better than today. All of the political effort, all the training, everything, it's not just about righting past wrongs, but about making things in the future better. Kakara believes this is possible. She holds onto that hope, uses it as the core of her drive to change herself and others. Not to mold them or force them or beat them down, but to lift them up, to perceive and strive for the hope that anyone can be better. Grandpa Gohan didn't have much hope for Jaffur, but he admitted he was wrong. Maybe what the Exiles need now is some Hope, a vision to be stirred toward.
[X] Yes. You can trust him with this. ("Recruit Sensei Carrick" option occurs next year; even if you don't take it, somebody will approach him to bring him in)
Year 4: Outside Context
You stare at the paper in front of you, gaping.
You look up at your mother. Her frown deepens. You look back at the paper.
"A C in Reading," she says, her tone very purposefully quiet. "And a B average elsewhere. Kakara Goku, you are a better student than this."
"Mom, I-"
"I talked to your teachers," she says. "Your Reading teacher says you haven't turned in an assignment in a month. Apparently it's just your tests that you bother with."
"Mom, I'm busy-"
"We don't have many expectations for you," she says, ignoring you completely. "Kais know you'll have plenty when you grow up. But the ones we do set, we expect you to live up to."
Dad shifts, entering the conversation for the first time. "Obviously, with everything that's happening right now we aren't going to make you really work on your grades. There's just too much. It wouldn't be fair to you. But once this is all done with, we want to see straight As again. We know you can do this, Kakara. We just want you to do your best."
"But there's so much else to do!" you say. "School only matters because I'm supposed to get a job eventually. Why do I even need a job? I'm going to be Lady some day!"
You mom slaps the table. You flinch at the sudden sound. "You go to school," she says, "because no daughter of mine is going to be a head of state without a high school diploma. And to get that, you need to go to school."
"You don't need a job, Kakara," says Dad. "I hope you get one. I have one, because it helps me to stay in touch with the human world. How can I help us stay hidden without understanding them? But to do your job as Lady, you don't really need a job at all. Your friends will wonder what you're up to if you don't, mind." He shrugs. "No. School is valuable on its own terms."
"And you're going to apply yourself," says Mom, scowling at you.
Y'all remembered that Mom's Masque job is being a primary school teacher, right? Slacking has paid dividends. You have dropped to a B average. Your parents have laid down the law that you may not slack this year.
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News of the year!
...quarantine is to remain in effect until further notice. All human-side residents have a period of one week to prepare before the Hall will be opened to mass evacuations. Remain alert, and keep your senses up.
Lord Berra Goku reminds all Exile residents that power levels must be kept to five or lower while outside the Training Hall. Members of particularly physical professions in the human world, including but not limited to military service, law enforcement, construction work, emergency services, or other such physically demanding positions, may exhibit a maximum power level of ten.
At all times, be alert for aliens in your vicinity. Upon sensing one, immediately report it to your nearest response team and get yourself and any other nearby saiyans under cover.
Please remain calm and proceed in an orderly fashion. Despite the alien presence on Garenhuld, we urge all citizens to be mindful of the Masquerade and the implications of their actions. This broadcast will now repeat.
With the successful and undetected landing of an alien vessel upon Garenhuld, a State of Emergency has been declared. Regarding the alien vessel, a quarantine is to remain in effect until further notice. All human-side residents...
A State of Emergency is now active. Until the scouts have been rooted out, social crackdown among Exile society to ensure secrecy is limiting your freedom of movement. Effect: -2 yearly actions.
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Actions Available! [13 (10 Base, 2 from Hopeful, 1 from A Cause, 1 from Ambitious, 2 from Multiform, -2 from State of Emergency]
Opportunities Available! Please read even old options carefully; some have changed from last year.
Outside Context Problem active! Expect further potential disruptions of your yearly schedule.
As usual, for Year posts the voting is absolute plan voting; you vote by plan, for the one plan that most appeals to you.
Maintaining the appearance of being a human is exhausting, but in the event of somebody investigating Earth, potentially vital. This is your part in it.
Attend School (Mandatory, choose one of the following): Time-consuming, tiring, and the part that you're most likely to be discovered doing. Unfortunately, you really have no choice. Current grades: trending B. Effect: Attend school.
-[ ] Slack (1 action): You have better things to do! Slack off on schoolwork to focus on other pursuits. Your parents are closely watching you. They will not appreciate you doing this. Effect: Possible grade loss. You're smart and this is primary school, you have a decent chance of not dropping a grade. You will automatically drop a relationship level with your parents by taking this option, and next year will encounter hard restrictions on your actions as they crack down on perceived delinquency.
-[ ] Maintain Grades (2 actions): You're good where you are, and you have a lot to do. Let's just get the effort in to stick it out and then focus on other things. Effect: Maintain grades.
-[ ] Raise Grades (3 actions): Your grades have slipped lately. Your parents aren't requiring it with everything else that's going on, but you still want to get them back to where they were. Effect: Hit the books for a possible grade gain. You are very smart, and thus should almost certainly succeed.
[ ] My Best Friend (1 action, may be taken more than once): In particular, there's one person you want to spend more time with this year. Effect: Take the time to improve your relationship with one non-saiyan person in particular (including Jaron).
[ ] Queen of the School (1 action): No better Masque than blending in! Effect: Socialize as a human and expand your current social circle. You'd do very well here, most likely. Opens social opportunities in the human world.
[ ] The Power of Learning (1 action): Quite aside from school, the human world has always fascinated you. Maybe you can learn something from them? Effect: Become a bookworm in (insert field of study) or just read as widely as possible if nothing specific catches your eye. This is something you'd be good at.
[ ] Loose Lips Lead To Ultimate Power (1 action): ...maybe you're crazy. Part of you thinks that it would be an utterly stupid idea. But there's a big part of you that wants to try and bring your friends in on the secret -- of ki, that is -- particularly with the aliens coming, and especially since you've already told Maya. Better to ask forgiveness than permission, right? Effects: Try and instruct your friends in the mysteries of ki. Disapproval from Exiles.
[ ] Improve Masque Affinity (1 action): The human world of Garenhuld offers many intriguing possibilities. Now that you're comfortable in your Masque, you feel that you could explore them...but you also know that you could improve your Masque to increase the amount of power available to you in it. Effect: Grind your Masque Affinity, improving your transformation time and available power level while in human form. Success in this is guaranteed with any amount of time investment; the only thing in question is how much you'll improve by.
-[ ] By sparring practice.
-[ ] By other means (write-in).
[ ] Out To the Club (2 actions): You're feeling confident enough in your Masque that you can start spending more time among humans. Your school has a bunch of clubs, it occurs. Kid stuff, but it'd help you get introduced to various things early. Which is what it's for... Effects: Propose a type of club to try joining; sports, academic, hobby, etc. Run it by me and I'll tell you if it's plausible for a primary school student. Has social benefits in the form of new contacts and relationship grinding with fellow Misfits in the same clubs, and also grinds related skills.
[ ] Train Maya (1 action): Your father would likely be willing to handle this, but Maya is your friend first. Effects: Continue Maya's ki training instead of handing over to your father.
[ ] Feeling Weird (1 action): Increasingly, you've been experiencing some odd things when under human Masque. You hardly noticed at first, and lately you've been hoping that they'd go away, but if anything they're getting worse. Growth spurts, general moodiness at times. Your body which you've spent so much time getting used to is now changing on you. Boys seem even dumber and yet far more interesting than they used to be. Mom, what the heck is going on?! Effect: Realize that Dad doesn't actually realize that girls start this earlier than boys do. Let your Mom know that it's time for her to start having to deal with the most delightful part of raising a child. Take measures to adjust to the changes occurring to you. Get The Talk.
While the Masquerade is important, you are nobility. You really do need to pay attention to this stuff. And now that you've reached the peak of your power, you have more time than ever.
...but then again...
[ ] Train Transformations (2 actions): It is absolutely, spectacularly illegal. It would make you the most hated villain in your people's history in a heartbeat. It would almost certainly shatter the Masquerade and send the word of your people's presence racing to the Enemy's ears...and put you on the path to regaining your old strength, and possibly defeating it. A small part of you wants to do it. Effects: Success not guaranteed. Starts doomsday timer to the Enemy's arrival on Garenhuld. Survival of immediate Exile reaction not guaranteed. REPRESENTS A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE TONE AND PACE OF THE QUEST. In secret moments, try to break through your barriers yet again, and achieve the form of Super Saiyan 2.
Being a warrior is about more than brute strength. Master the art of combat to gain your people's respect. Your mindset will hold you back in all aspects, though.
[ ] Train Hand-To-Hand (2 actions): Jaffur showed you exactly how far you have to go. You've learned your lessons from him in dueling, and can't really improve it much farther besides, but you can improve other forms of combat as well. Effect: Train your skill in hand-to-hand combat, and thereby your facility in its involved talents.
[ ] Train Ki Manipulation (2 actions): You already have something of a gift in this, although again Jaffur proved more skilled in the combat applications. Maybe you could close that gap. Effect: Train your skill in ki manipulation, and thereby your facility in its involved talents. You are enough of a prodigy that you would suffer no maluses to improvement here.
[ ] Train Specific Skill (1 action, may be taken multiple times): As you train your skill in an overall field, your skill at individual techniques will rise to match it, but maybe you can focus on something in particular. Effect: Choose a specific Skill you wish to train or learn. Crowd fighting? Fighting in a team? Specific ki projection techniques like the Kikoho? Odder stuff, like the kaio-ken? This would give a higher chance of success than simply training the whole related field.
[ ] Command Training (1 action): War is on the horizon, and you must be prepared to lead your people. You have already gained basic competence in the art of command. Now it's time to buckle down in earnest, and truly learn everything your people know about the art of command! With hard work, in a year's time you can become as skilled a commander as the Exiles are capable of producing! Effects: Train your Command Training to a maximum of "Talented." Realize how long it's been since your people fought an organized conflict.
[ ] Maintain Your Skills (1 action): You're not really focused on training. Why is everybody so obsessed with strength, anyway? Effect: Focus only on maintaining your current standing in Combat and its component skills. Does not need to be taken if any of the above are successfully taken. If you take some of the above but fail all of them, you still risk skill atrophy. I'll cop to it, this is for game balance over realism.
The mark of a true warrior is one who unifies their various skills and abilities into a cohesive whole. You're not really suited to fighting, but this could help you. Counts as a "Warrior's Path" action for the purposes of skill degradation.
[ ] Train Style [Variable] (1 action): You've gained a comprehensive library of styles, and can now choose to pick one to begin training in if you please.
[ ] Study Jaffur's Form (1 action): You know the first step here, but more will take time. And with Mato now on the case, you aren't the only one learning. Effect: Spend more time trying to figure out further requirements for Jaffur's form. With your brain and having made a breakthrough, you know progress to be a near-certainty. Mato working on it means somebody else to make progress as well.
-[ ] With Mato. Effects: Social with Mato, two minds working in concert on the problem instead of separately.
-[ ] Without Mato. Effects: Don't bother with it. Your purpose in getting him to work on it is achieved.
[ ] Create Style (2 actions): Your path is your own. You will build a style for yourself. Effect: Invest immense time and energy into building a form from the ground up. It won't be easy, and given your mindset you may fail, but the rewards are potentially enormous. Work closely with your QM to determine the mechanics.
You are a Seer, an heir to the legacy of Bardock. This alone has radically changed your path in life. Yet despite this, you cannot ignore the impact of Sorcery on your life.
[X] Train With Sensei (1 action, LOCKED): Nothing for it but time. Effect: Grind your talent in Seer abilities. Sensei tells you that this will be gruelingly hard, and take years to master no matter how much of a prodigy you are.
-[X] Train Mind Projection: You have asked Sensei about this, and told him (some of) why it's necessary. It's doubtful you wouldn't train this, but if you for some reason found cause to object, he'll have told your parents exactly why your need this and made them force you to lessons.
[-] Beg Sensei To Teach You [Write-In Specific Technique] (1 action): Waiting is boring. Effect: Make a hard Communication check to convince Sensei to deviate from his plan and then train the skill selected. More likely to succeed if taken with a successful, "Sound Out Sensei," action and you convince him that this skill is useful for the conspiracy. I'll tell you if what you want to learn is not a thing. Sensei is not willing to spend the time it would take to give you accelerated Mind Projection training and continue teaching you something else.
[ ] Study Magic (1 action): You aren't a Sorcerer, and you're slightly relieved about that, to be honest. But it remains significant to you, and you want to study it. Effect: Begin scholarship into the ways of magic.
You are a part of this society, and it's the people who make it tick.
[ ] Socialize! (1 action, may be taken multiple times): These are the only people you can be truly honest with. You want to talk to them! But who...? Effect: Spend large amounts of time with existing friends or acquaintances to improve relationships (specify who at one person per action; Betarel may be included, but all such interactions would involve an Intrigue check with a low chance of failure and therefore discovery by your father).
[ ] Making Friends (1 action): You kind of have a small social circle now. Let's fix that! Effect: Take advantage of social opportunities to meet new people and establish relationships.
[ ] A Scion's Observations (1 action): Now that your education in the Clans is complete, Dad has said it might be valuable for you to start learning the practical applications of rule. He wants you to start sitting in state with him on a limited but regular basis. The goal is to show you some of the internal workings of practical leadership in preparation for your eventual assumption of the role of Lady. He thinks you're ready for this. Effects: continue Intrigue and Communication training in a limited but hands-on setting. Gain some minor input on official Clan policy.
You know some of the details of Jaffur's Seal, and have a group of allies. What else is there to do? YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST ONE ACTION FROM THIS CATEGORY.
[ ] Set the Record Straight (1 action): The official story is that you helped Seal Jaffur. It'll mean publicly opposing your Dad and making a definite enemy out of Lady Vegeta, but you could come forward and make your stance on the matter clear. Effect: Share the truth of the Sealing with your people. Increases societal unrest and earns you enemies, but may reveal potential supporters for the conspiracy.
[ ] Contacting Jaffur (1 action): Your plan with the Senzus calls for your to find a way to project yourself into Jaffur's mind yet again in order to communicate with him. The last time was purely by accident, so there are no guarantees, but you need to try. Effects: Flying blind, try to project your mind into Jaffur's Seal in order to move the plan forward. Low odds of success. Significantly more likely to succeed if taken with a successful, "Beg Sensei To Teach You [Mind Projection]," action.
[ ] Investigate Clan Vegeta (1 action): You want to know what's going on over there, and that would be a step towards breaking Jaffur's Seal. But you're...not exactly welcome over there, at the moment. Effect: In secret, sneak around Clan and House Vegeta to find out more about the situation there, including specifics about its ruling House. If caught, enormous repercussions would ensue.
[ ] Investigate Clan Goku (1 action): It would be rather easier to sound out your own Clan. Nobody would question that. Effect: Openly and at no risk, poll your Clan to find out the specifics of any tensions regarding Jaffur's Sealing.
[ ] Teach the Senzus Instant Transmission (1 action, may be chosen up to three times): It is so useful. And given how much time you'd need to invest, so risky. Effects: Gamble big and take the time to teach the Senzus how to use Instant Transmission. Each time the action is taken allows you to teach more people in one go; you could probably teach an twentieth of them for every action invested. However, each additional action doubles the chance of discovery, which is already moderate.
[ ] Recruit Sensei Carrick (1 action): Your Sensei is a Seer, like you, and seems sensible. The Conspiracy Council, on your recommendation and his opinions on mind control, decided that he should be brought in to more fully collaborate with you on the matter of breaking the Seal. If you don't do this, one of them will, but you are already there...and he'd probably think better of you if you told him personally, from his ranting on how you should make up for visiting Jaffur's mind. Effect: Bring your Sensei in on the conspiracy personally. Probably has positive effects on your relationship with him in addition to hopefully gaining his full and informed support.
[ ] Set the Record Straight (1 action): The official story is that you helped Seal Jaffur. It'll mean publicly opposing your Dad and making a definite enemy out of Lady Vegeta, but you could come forward and make your stance on the matter clear. Effect: Share the truth of the Sealing with your people. Increases societal unrest and earns you enemies, but may reveal potential supporters for the conspiracy.
[-] Smash the Seal (1 action): You have waited long enough and know all you need to, in your estimation. Go. Gather what you have, and go. Effect: Go with whatever you've accomplished by year's end, and try to break the Seal. Having settled on a concrete plan of action, there needs to be a dire change in circumstances before you can pick this.
Sometimes, you just want to do things on your own time.
[ ] Ki (1 action, may be taken multiple times): Despite your disinterest in fighting, you really do like using your Ki, and you're good at it! Effect: In your spare time, improve Ki Talents (1 per action).
[ ] New Tricks (1 action): You are a prodigy in ki use. Surely you should be able to figure out some new techniques. Effect: Learn a new Ki Talent and set your starting skill level. Possibly reveal exceptional hidden talents. Write in ideas if you have something in mind (for this option, should be something canonical to Dragon Ball, not speculative; ki healing, hypnosis, and mind delving come to mind as viable options, among others. I reserve veto rights on balance grounds if some minor villain in a video game or the earliest days of Dragon Ball displayed abilities that would be horrifying on a Super Saiyan). If you leave it blank, Kakara will develop whatever talent she has the most native talent in.
[ ] Research Project (1 action): You've been thinking lately, and there are some lost techniques that would be really useful to have. Come to think, you have some ideas for entirely new techniques. Maybe you could look into developing them? Effect: This is your general research option. Use this to conduct experiments into new uses of ki or even entirely new techniques, be they combat-based or not.
[ ] The Examined Life (1 action): You are made up of many small facets. After your revelation with your sense of pacifism, you want to reflect on another, and delve into its secrets. Effect: Select one trait to reflect on and develop, excluding Pacifist and Hopeful, which must be further developed through play.
[ ] Write-In (actions variable): You are Kakara Goku, and you have your own ideas on what to do.
THIS VOTE IS NOW CLOSED
Let me know if there's an action that I promised but somehow forgot.
Also in this update: annoying consequences. Kakara usually has a lot of freedom. I figured that in narrative terms, the most irritating thing that could possibly happen to her would be something to circumvent that freedom. Case in point: despite gaining three action slots, the state of emergency ate two, and you gained only one, net. But at least you didn't lose actions.
And furthermore, this year saw you gain new options! Expensive options. So...have fun with that.
As a reminder, Multiform has been moved to Ki Talents. Instant Transmission is staying right where it is under Ki Projection.
And...enjoy puberty from a girl's perspective. It's fun.
AS IS NOW THE STANDARD FOR YEAR POSTS, THERE WILL BE A TWELVE-HOUR MORATORIUM, AND A LONG VOTING PERIOD, TO ENSURE YOU ALL CAN ARRIVE AT A GOOD PLAN
[ ] Contact Yammar Vegeta (1 action): The Butcher of House Talt has a history dripping with blood, all in the defense of his House and Clan. From the Council you know he hates what's happened to his grandson. Effect: Sound out Yammar Vegeta, and if possible bring him in on the plot.
[ ] Get Organized (1 action): Presently your conspiracy is more like two separate plots running in tandem; you and the Senzus, and then whatever Grandma is doing. You need to get everybody in the same room together so that you all can unify your efforts and share all available information. Effects: Figure out just what Grandma has been up to and what assets she can lend to things. Share information and work out a unified plan of action. As this involves you, Grandma, and the Senzus in the same room at the very least even before including anybody you bring in this year, this is highly treasonous and will involve an event series. The possibility of discovery does exist, although with your current precautions is fairly unlikely.
Well, we dropped that grade - time for the "3" in the "1+3" system.
@PoptartProdigy , our Ki Manipulation skill is apparently in the brink of upgrading and "any amount of practice" will put us over the edge. Can we just spend one action on Ki Manipulation?
EDIT: Those "Breaking the Seal" options need updating.
