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I'm kind of skeptical of that. Kakara spends basically every hour of every day working at something or other. I don't think "keeping the Masquerade a secret" is actually consuming that much of her time. Plus, a lot of her actions have to be taken among saiyan society, in saiyan form. For those purposes, the idea that the Masquerade has evolved from "saiyan ki users hiding from humans" to "saiyan ki users pretending to be human ki users that live more openly among humans" isn't going to help.
Let's look at a representative example of a hypothetical plan for Year 5's actions (incidentally, Kakara's thirteenth birthday falls some time in this year, right). Courtesy of Bakkasama...
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School: 2
Contacting Jaffur: 1
Seer training: 1
Train Tien Style: 1
Train Maya: 1
Research [Perfect Multiform]: 1
Scion observations: 1
Seer training, Scion observations, training Tien Style, and researching Perfect Multiform probably have to be done in saiyan form. We can't be seen in public in Masqued form reading books full of saiyan literature and saiyan technique history.
Contacting Jaffur may well be harder depending on how Dandeer reacts to recent developments. At the very least, doing it with Seer powers still requires us to make time to actually sleep in saiyan form. Which Kakara almost never does, instead using time spent in her Masqued form as a substitute for sleep as a saiyan and vice versa.
Training Maya could get easier or harder depending on how her parents react to all this.
So that's about six actions worth of activities that probably don't get any easier as a result of the Masquerade breach.
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School is already done under Masque but does not change noticeably as a result of ki powers being an overt, open thing, unless we do something goofy and blatant like have Karen use Multiform to complete all our homework during school hours by being in class and in the library doing our homework at the same time... which is actually not such a bad idea. Okaaay, that could conceivably save us an action. IF we make it very clear to everyone (including our parents) that we know Multiform and are in fact rather good at it due to our own efforts to study in secret in past years, AND IF this doesn't somehow cause more problems than it solves at school.
We MIGHT be able to use Multiform to ace school. I do not know. That could conceivably save us an action point, or reduce the action point cost of doing well in school, which amounts to the same thing. On the other hand, there may be unforeseen obstacles to doing this- such as our parents saying "no, that's a bad idea, because if the principal gets the idea that you can be in two places at once you will be a test-cheating and truancy hazard forever."
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@Bakkasama then listed several other things we COULD do with the remaining actions (he assumed there would be thirteen total, so the above list uses eight and leaves five).
- Raising our grades
- Explaining to the Misfits what the heck is up with Ki since we flew in front of the whole school. [This is already partly covered]
- Training Jaron in Ki.
- Explaining to the world at large what was that about.
- Training our machine sense .
- Negotiating with the scouts and aliens
- Doing something about the Trasteia-Aramai war
- Examine the Reflective trait.
- Mato and Jaffur style.
- Social
Basically, none of these get easier because of the Masquerade breach, except insofar as some of them are only made relevant/possible BY that breach. About the only way I can imagine the breach making our action economy better is if it lets us do our schoolwork in less time
