Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
@inverted_helix, I know that without combat it takes six months for a green to become a veteran, but how fast does it happen if they see combat or are in the wild?
Meguca Micro Empire Quest (PMMM)
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Hmm, another research project/experiment to try: fining around the city with half-filled grief cubes in our pockets might increase demon spawn rate, which might not be useful as we've never yet had problems finding enough demons, even on an overhunt, but it might also influence the Lamarckian evolution rate, giving us a lowered adaptation rate, much like RT but without the increased risk.
I guess we could also try carrying those half-filled cubes into a demon's miasma, but that might increase risk. Maybe a separate topic?
I guess we could also try carrying those half-filled cubes into a demon's miasma, but that might increase risk. Maybe a separate topic?
Hmm on consideration I see your point somewhat.
What I'd really like to do from a modeling perspective is have both a cost difference and a difference in effectiveness. That seems like it would add too much complexity though. Since from a modeling perspective the more people in a group hunting likely means a larger proportion of time spent traveling and a smaller proportion spent fighting or searching. So if I wanted to hold real close to modeling at the cost of complexity I'd do something like Cost 1 cube per 4 solo, 6 pair, 12 pack hunters and modifier of 1.15, 1.25, 1.3 to the return. What I think I'll do instead though is 1 cube per 6 hunters of any type, and modifier 1.15 solo, 1.25 pair, 1.35 pack on return. Plus 1 upkeep teleporter vet.
Yes.
6 months is the wild rate. In your noncombat positions I have it slated as 12 months.
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Wait, what? I could have sworn that it took only six turns for a green to become a vet for us? Didn't it only take those girls who wished to be sisters less than 6 turns to become vets because they had been in the wild for a bit?
Edit: After going back and looking, it turns out I was just misremembering.
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
That was already an option back in turn 1.
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[]Training, Raise Veteran: Raise one of the Green Girls to be a veteran
Cost: 3 Meguca, 1 Veteran Meguca; Reward: Raises one Green Meguca to veteran status.
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We decided it wasn't worth it.
True, you can combine it into the effectiveness modifier, or you could combine it into the cost factor (ie, the cost incorporates the differences in efficiency as part of the cost difference), like I did (which was why Pack was not 8 to 10 times more cost efficient then Solo). I don't think it matters much mechanically which way you do it. I thought it was more intuitive (and certainly much easier to calculate) incorporating it into the cost, but whichever way you prefer.
I haven't played around with the numbers you gave there for cost effectiveness yet. It's just that whatever the cost benefit comparison we use has to take into account the opportunity cost of the next best alternative.
Also, you responded to my first post on the matter before I edited it. I added a section about making it scale proportionate to territory size, which is the other balance consideration:
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To be more exact, in the early stages of the game we simply could not afford the manpower taken off of hunting. In the later stages we didn't have enough greens to make it worthwhile, as we are now at the point of needing to use veterans to fill spaces in our businesses that could be filled by greens.
If we suddenly had 20 greens dropped on us it might be worth it to take the option to raise them into vets (although we'd probably be desperate to expand territory and would spend our manpower on that instead).
This could actually be a benefit to us, as we could try and absorb the population.
Also, a thought I had about Seto Tomoe. She's probably originally from a rural area. Might be a farm girl.
Not only does her area include a lot of rural/nomad area, but her wish magic is teleportation, which is usually a result of a wish to travel. I wouldn't be surprised if her original area was in the nomad area, (which is why Seto knows how to hunt it), and that's how she honed her teleportation skills so well.
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Put another way it's basically that we don't need to bother because we can get it for free instead. Any megucamonths we'd ever spend on raising a green to a vet could be better spent on more training, research, or diplomacy.
Anyway, any other votes? I think we've mostly coalesced onto a plan here, unless there is any new business, although we just brainstormed a lot of new research/training options that probably need to be priced out for next month's update. This one's mostly a month of consolidation and transition anyway; we're basically wrapping up Part 1: Subsistence Farming and moving on to Part 2: Crop Rotation.
As far as I know, this month is done, vote-wise. There have been no suggested changes for a few days, and mine and Haman's are the same, I believe.
Omake: Kaoru Training: Resonance Frequency
Omake: Kaoru Training: Resonance Frequency
Kaoru was tired. On her way to another training day with Mami, Kaoru was excited, but also very tired. That's what happens when you stay up all night watching youtube clips of resonance frequency in different materials. On top of the exhausting training regime, Mami had added several textbooks on the physics of sound. While Kaoru had understood the mathematical equations, and had found the chapters on resonance frequency particularly helpful in giving her a hint, how to translate that into actually causing metal to shatter was something that had eluded her.
Five days of very frustrating training had followed. Kaoru was now a natural at summoning musical platforms, shields, barriers, and the clearing move with her foot stomp explosion. Well, at least she thought she was a natural, Mami seemed to think she was merely adequate, demanding ever faster reaction times, with shorter and shorter pauses in between actions. Still, Mami had thought her adequate, which was much better than the frustration on Mami's face at her inability to shatter anything other then glass.
Today was going to be different though. Kaoru could just feel it. She had understood the theory of resonance frequency, but she hadn't been able to visualize it, which she was rapidly learning was essential to doing something with her magic that wasn't instinctual. Then Hainako had suggested she check out some videos on it in action. Kaoru had been fascinated. Unfortunately Hainako had demanded her laptop back, and Kaoru was only able to get access by... borrowing it after Hainako had gone to bed. It was totally for a good cause, and she did watch several videos about resonance frequency in metals... that half of the videos had been more focused on all the cool things you could do to water with resonance frequency wasn't important.
Mami was waiting in the junkyard for Kaoru. She was a bit worried about the bags she saw under Kaoru's eyes, but decided it was also a hopeful sign that Kaoru was taking this more seriously and putting in the effort required. Mami first had Kaoru spend two hours running through her exercises on musical platforms, barriers, shields, and the clearing move. Then Mami had Kaoru move on to the vibration attack.
Kaoru was excited. Instead of her previous attempts to to modulate her voice and watch the effect on the various metals, Kaoru instead approached a junked car and banged on the door and then listened to the vibrations. Striking it a second time Kaoru again listened until she felt she knew the right frequency. Striking it a third blow, Kaoru this time attempted to visualize the vibrations moving through the metal. A fourth blow and Kaoru believed she had it, she could see the vibrations. Hopefully an effect of her magic rather than wishful thinking.
Finally feeling confident, Kaoru stepped back several paces and then turned and released a high pitched note targeted at the side door, amplified by her magic. The metal vibrated. Encouraged Kaoru increased the volume until Mami put her hands over her ears. Suddenly, the metal released a screech in tune with Kaoru's voice as the metal twisted and tore. No longer in tune with the vibration, the metal looked more like a fist had punched through it rather then shattering.
"Well done!" Mami congratulated Kaoru. Kaoru's face beamed with pleasure. Mami inspected the side door, before turning to Kaoru. "This ability isn't as adaptable as I was hoping, and probably won't be useful against demons, but maybe it could be used against other magical girls to escape traps." Kaoru's face fell, if this skill wasn't that useful, then why had she been spending so much effort on it?
"Let's have you try it against my ribbons next," Mami suggested. Kaoru went from depressed to anxious. She wasn't sure she was really ready for a direct face off with Mami. "Or would you prefer to practice some more on cars?" asked Mami.
Kaoru grimaced, if she was going to develop this skill she'd rather have it be in a way that was useful. "Let's try the ribbons."
"Good," Mami answered. She was happy Kaoru seemed to be getting into it. That grimace of determination took Mami back. Kaoru was looking more like Kyouko now, back when Kyouko was the one training under Mami. She quickly formed a ribbon wall between her and Kaoru.
Kaoru first tried the note she had sung at the car door, but it had no effect, so Kaoru didn't bother increasing her volume. She tried some different notes, while carefully watching the ribbon wall. No effect, but somehow Kaoru just knew what the right notes were. Her voice lowered into a registry far below that of a normal girl's. The ribbon wall did not react. Then, impossibly, Kaoru's voice split into nine simultaneous notes. Kaoru could feel the ribbon wall begin to vibrate, and so she increased her volume until it seemed like the earth itself was shaking. However, she could feel the magic dissipate as it struck the ribbon, almost as if a counter magic was canceling her's out.
Mami's perception was a bit different. First it struck her how odd it was for Kaoru to be able to hit such a low note. Must be a side effect of her wish, Mami thought. Then she felt wonder as Kaoru's voice began sounding multiple notes at the same time. A wonder that was interrupted when Kaoru increased her volume. As Mami covered her ears, she could also feel magic flowing from her instinctively to reinforce her ribbon wall.
Blocked at success, Kaoru stopped singing. The sudden quiet was a bit unnerving, and Kaoru struggled to put aside her disappointment. Mami was stepping past her ribbon wall to discuss the outcome with Kaoru, when the two of them heard a male voice: "I think it was this way." Rapidly, Mami dismissed her ribbons, and the two of them grabbed their items and ran, taking a roundabout way out of the junkyard.
After they were several blocks away, they slowed and Mami clicked her teeth. "I should have thought about that. We'll have to find a new place to practice for a few days. Oh well, let's take this moment to review and plan the future lessons." Mami turned and paused after taking in Kaoru's downcast expression. "Let's do it over ice cream, I know a place that has a good parfait."
Mami took Kaoru to a family restaurant she knew, that she had used to use to bribe Kyouko into training. After a brief discussion of Mami's observations, and a plan to look more closely at Kaoru's emotional effects next Kaoru was begining to cheer up. Mainly due to the ice cream. She and Mami ate in silence for a few minutes before Kaoru decided to make some conversation. "So which one is your favorite?"
Mami looked up in confusion, "Which ice cream?"
"No, which Sailor Senshi of course." Kaoru looked at Mami intently, "don't deny you have one, I know you do."
Mami blushed slightly, but decided there really was no harm in discussing it. She had asked Kaoru to treat her as more of a friend and less as a sempai when they weren't training. "Well... I guess Jupiter."
"Really," Kaoru blinked in surprise, "I thought it'd be Venus."
Mami smiled wistfully, "I guess she was, back when I was younger. Her and Moon."
Kaoru swallowed a bite of ice cream. "So why'd you switch to Jupiter? Because of the cooking?"
Mami's face fell as she looked down at her empty ice cream dish. "No." She looked back up, "because Makoto lost her parents. But she kept on living."
"Oh," Kaoru fell silent for a moment, then slowly nodded. "I see, that's why I like Ami so much." She frowned a bit, "I guess that's why I like Mars more than I used to too." Kaoru glanced over at Mami, "You know, since I met my father." Taking the last bite of her ice cream, Kaoru got up. "Thanks for the ice cream Mami, I needed that."
When they got outside, Kaoru said she had something she wanted to try herself and headed off towards the river. Mami decided she was feeling wistful and went for a walk in a park her mother and father had used to take her too. Afterwards she went home and went to bed, feeling sad, but also glad she had been able to talk about her parents. They deserved to be remembered.
That night, the Mitakihara river caught on fire. Okay, so that is an exaggeration, but it's the way most people ended up remembering it. In reality it was more like a fireball, and it was limited to a very small area near a bridge. No one was even hurt. Still, it caused a bit of a panic for a day with people wondering if the water supply had become contaminated again.
Fortunately an anonymous phone call claimed that a pair of boys had poured gasoline on the river and lit it on fire. Though there was still some continuing suspicion until another phone call added that the boys had thrown chunks of potassium in the river as well. This alleviated the concerns of the citizens of Mitakihara, but did result in a few side effects.
The first was a review of all the chemistry classes in the area, and renewed emphasis on safety. Which led to the punishment of several boys doing stupid (and fun) things. The second was due to the phone calls having been made by two young women, whom the media immediately theorized were the girlfriends of the two delinquents. There was even a poorly made for TV movie about it, called River on Fire, that depicted two sisters in love with boys belonging to different gangs with a reconciliation triggered by a tragic accident when the river caught on fire. Third, encouraged by the movie, residents living near the river greatly exaggerated the actual events to better match the dramatization.
Thus it was ever known as the night the Mitakihara river caught on fire. Other less well known effects was that Mami gave Kaoru a very suspicious stare for a full week, and that Kaoru (and Taura) always left the room whenever there was any discussion among the other girls about this mysterious occurrence.
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Whew, finally finished. Not my best work, but good enough. Hopefully I will be able to push the other ones out much more quickly.
Kaoru was tired. On her way to another training day with Mami, Kaoru was excited, but also very tired. That's what happens when you stay up all night watching youtube clips of resonance frequency in different materials. On top of the exhausting training regime, Mami had added several textbooks on the physics of sound. While Kaoru had understood the mathematical equations, and had found the chapters on resonance frequency particularly helpful in giving her a hint, how to translate that into actually causing metal to shatter was something that had eluded her.
Five days of very frustrating training had followed. Kaoru was now a natural at summoning musical platforms, shields, barriers, and the clearing move with her foot stomp explosion. Well, at least she thought she was a natural, Mami seemed to think she was merely adequate, demanding ever faster reaction times, with shorter and shorter pauses in between actions. Still, Mami had thought her adequate, which was much better than the frustration on Mami's face at her inability to shatter anything other then glass.
Today was going to be different though. Kaoru could just feel it. She had understood the theory of resonance frequency, but she hadn't been able to visualize it, which she was rapidly learning was essential to doing something with her magic that wasn't instinctual. Then Hainako had suggested she check out some videos on it in action. Kaoru had been fascinated. Unfortunately Hainako had demanded her laptop back, and Kaoru was only able to get access by... borrowing it after Hainako had gone to bed. It was totally for a good cause, and she did watch several videos about resonance frequency in metals... that half of the videos had been more focused on all the cool things you could do to water with resonance frequency wasn't important.
Mami was waiting in the junkyard for Kaoru. She was a bit worried about the bags she saw under Kaoru's eyes, but decided it was also a hopeful sign that Kaoru was taking this more seriously and putting in the effort required. Mami first had Kaoru spend two hours running through her exercises on musical platforms, barriers, shields, and the clearing move. Then Mami had Kaoru move on to the vibration attack.
Kaoru was excited. Instead of her previous attempts to to modulate her voice and watch the effect on the various metals, Kaoru instead approached a junked car and banged on the door and then listened to the vibrations. Striking it a second time Kaoru again listened until she felt she knew the right frequency. Striking it a third blow, Kaoru this time attempted to visualize the vibrations moving through the metal. A fourth blow and Kaoru believed she had it, she could see the vibrations. Hopefully an effect of her magic rather than wishful thinking.
Finally feeling confident, Kaoru stepped back several paces and then turned and released a high pitched note targeted at the side door, amplified by her magic. The metal vibrated. Encouraged Kaoru increased the volume until Mami put her hands over her ears. Suddenly, the metal released a screech in tune with Kaoru's voice as the metal twisted and tore. No longer in tune with the vibration, the metal looked more like a fist had punched through it rather then shattering.
"Well done!" Mami congratulated Kaoru. Kaoru's face beamed with pleasure. Mami inspected the side door, before turning to Kaoru. "This ability isn't as adaptable as I was hoping, and probably won't be useful against demons, but maybe it could be used against other magical girls to escape traps." Kaoru's face fell, if this skill wasn't that useful, then why had she been spending so much effort on it?
"Let's have you try it against my ribbons next," Mami suggested. Kaoru went from depressed to anxious. She wasn't sure she was really ready for a direct face off with Mami. "Or would you prefer to practice some more on cars?" asked Mami.
Kaoru grimaced, if she was going to develop this skill she'd rather have it be in a way that was useful. "Let's try the ribbons."
"Good," Mami answered. She was happy Kaoru seemed to be getting into it. That grimace of determination took Mami back. Kaoru was looking more like Kyouko now, back when Kyouko was the one training under Mami. She quickly formed a ribbon wall between her and Kaoru.
Kaoru first tried the note she had sung at the car door, but it had no effect, so Kaoru didn't bother increasing her volume. She tried some different notes, while carefully watching the ribbon wall. No effect, but somehow Kaoru just knew what the right notes were. Her voice lowered into a registry far below that of a normal girl's. The ribbon wall did not react. Then, impossibly, Kaoru's voice split into nine simultaneous notes. Kaoru could feel the ribbon wall begin to vibrate, and so she increased her volume until it seemed like the earth itself was shaking. However, she could feel the magic dissipate as it struck the ribbon, almost as if a counter magic was canceling her's out.
Mami's perception was a bit different. First it struck her how odd it was for Kaoru to be able to hit such a low note. Must be a side effect of her wish, Mami thought. Then she felt wonder as Kaoru's voice began sounding multiple notes at the same time. A wonder that was interrupted when Kaoru increased her volume. As Mami covered her ears, she could also feel magic flowing from her instinctively to reinforce her ribbon wall.
Blocked at success, Kaoru stopped singing. The sudden quiet was a bit unnerving, and Kaoru struggled to put aside her disappointment. Mami was stepping past her ribbon wall to discuss the outcome with Kaoru, when the two of them heard a male voice: "I think it was this way." Rapidly, Mami dismissed her ribbons, and the two of them grabbed their items and ran, taking a roundabout way out of the junkyard.
After they were several blocks away, they slowed and Mami clicked her teeth. "I should have thought about that. We'll have to find a new place to practice for a few days. Oh well, let's take this moment to review and plan the future lessons." Mami turned and paused after taking in Kaoru's downcast expression. "Let's do it over ice cream, I know a place that has a good parfait."
Mami took Kaoru to a family restaurant she knew, that she had used to use to bribe Kyouko into training. After a brief discussion of Mami's observations, and a plan to look more closely at Kaoru's emotional effects next Kaoru was begining to cheer up. Mainly due to the ice cream. She and Mami ate in silence for a few minutes before Kaoru decided to make some conversation. "So which one is your favorite?"
Mami looked up in confusion, "Which ice cream?"
"No, which Sailor Senshi of course." Kaoru looked at Mami intently, "don't deny you have one, I know you do."
Mami blushed slightly, but decided there really was no harm in discussing it. She had asked Kaoru to treat her as more of a friend and less as a sempai when they weren't training. "Well... I guess Jupiter."
"Really," Kaoru blinked in surprise, "I thought it'd be Venus."
Mami smiled wistfully, "I guess she was, back when I was younger. Her and Moon."
Kaoru swallowed a bite of ice cream. "So why'd you switch to Jupiter? Because of the cooking?"
Mami's face fell as she looked down at her empty ice cream dish. "No." She looked back up, "because Makoto lost her parents. But she kept on living."
"Oh," Kaoru fell silent for a moment, then slowly nodded. "I see, that's why I like Ami so much." She frowned a bit, "I guess that's why I like Mars more than I used to too." Kaoru glanced over at Mami, "You know, since I met my father." Taking the last bite of her ice cream, Kaoru got up. "Thanks for the ice cream Mami, I needed that."
When they got outside, Kaoru said she had something she wanted to try herself and headed off towards the river. Mami decided she was feeling wistful and went for a walk in a park her mother and father had used to take her too. Afterwards she went home and went to bed, feeling sad, but also glad she had been able to talk about her parents. They deserved to be remembered.
That night, the Mitakihara river caught on fire. Okay, so that is an exaggeration, but it's the way most people ended up remembering it. In reality it was more like a fireball, and it was limited to a very small area near a bridge. No one was even hurt. Still, it caused a bit of a panic for a day with people wondering if the water supply had become contaminated again.
Fortunately an anonymous phone call claimed that a pair of boys had poured gasoline on the river and lit it on fire. Though there was still some continuing suspicion until another phone call added that the boys had thrown chunks of potassium in the river as well. This alleviated the concerns of the citizens of Mitakihara, but did result in a few side effects.
The first was a review of all the chemistry classes in the area, and renewed emphasis on safety. Which led to the punishment of several boys doing stupid (and fun) things. The second was due to the phone calls having been made by two young women, whom the media immediately theorized were the girlfriends of the two delinquents. There was even a poorly made for TV movie about it, called River on Fire, that depicted two sisters in love with boys belonging to different gangs with a reconciliation triggered by a tragic accident when the river caught on fire. Third, encouraged by the movie, residents living near the river greatly exaggerated the actual events to better match the dramatization.
Thus it was ever known as the night the Mitakihara river caught on fire. Other less well known effects was that Mami gave Kaoru a very suspicious stare for a full week, and that Kaoru (and Taura) always left the room whenever there was any discussion among the other girls about this mysterious occurrence.
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Whew, finally finished. Not my best work, but good enough. Hopefully I will be able to push the other ones out much more quickly.
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Hello. Haven't updated in quite a while. Just wanted to say not dead. Been in a depression swing of late and had trouble doing much of anything significant but have written most of the update. Right now it's just waiting on the finishing touches.
Anyways one thing I would request that would be helpful to a quicker update is some good Grief Spiral texts (I do struggle with making those interesting). You had a fair few this turn. 4x 2 cube spirals, and a 4 cube spiral.
I'm also still needing to redo the map from last turn but it's gotten a bit too small. Resizing it another size larger isn't really that appealing since finding a good map of city borders that I can rip off a map and apply over a satellite map is an amazing pain in the ass. Also I've spent a rather silly amount of time debating the support level of various areas when I make them blob like and they cross over multiple city boundaries.
In the interest of my sanity I'm planning to zoom out the map quite a bit, pick up a nice region map instead of prefecture map and worry less about the population of each tiny area. Just loosely divide it into rural versus urban with less thought into it just more based on broad averages. Something along the lines of 70% urban, 15% rural, 15% nomadic. (I'm aware that by UN standards Japan only has 8% of its population as Rural, but by magical girl standards of taking 20k-ish people to support them a lot of towns fall off from urban into rural or even nomadic.) I'll just use the population of the prefecture and judge about what % of the area is in each area you look at to take over and derive an estimate population from that. It will save me a lot of population puzzling that people probably don't care too much about anyways. (I've spent around half an hour an update at least on researching population sizes in these places, and it's struck me how ridiculous that is, especially since populations shift naturally anyways.)
Though this breaks down a bit when you get to hyperdense population zones like Nagoya or Tokyo, but I'll likely be vague on boundaries of groups there anyways.
Currently thinking to use either http://imgur.com/Hp5VJgI or http://imgur.com/HHc1xDR for the map update. The second one has a bit less clutter, but at the level of zoom to get to your current area it gets a bit pixilated. You currently control around 1/3rd of Shizuoka prefecture. Curious if people like one or the other or if they have a better map image I could use for this goal. I'll fiddle around with them a little, but my abilities are limited to about what you've seen before.
In the interest of my sanity I'm planning to zoom out the map quite a bit, pick up a nice region map instead of prefecture map and worry less about the population of each tiny area. Just loosely divide it into rural versus urban with less thought into it just more based on broad averages. Something along the lines of 70% urban, 15% rural, 15% nomadic. (I'm aware that by UN standards Japan only has 8% of its population as Rural, but by magical girl standards of taking 20k-ish people to support them a lot of towns fall off from urban into rural or even nomadic.) I'll just use the population of the prefecture and judge about what % of the area is in each area you look at to take over and derive an estimate population from that. It will save me a lot of population puzzling that people probably don't care too much about anyways. (I've spent around half an hour an update at least on researching population sizes in these places, and it's struck me how ridiculous that is, especially since populations shift naturally anyways.)
Though this breaks down a bit when you get to hyperdense population zones like Nagoya or Tokyo, but I'll likely be vague on boundaries of groups there anyways.
Currently thinking to use either http://imgur.com/Hp5VJgI or http://imgur.com/HHc1xDR for the map update. The second one has a bit less clutter, but at the level of zoom to get to your current area it gets a bit pixilated. You currently control around 1/3rd of Shizuoka prefecture. Curious if people like one or the other or if they have a better map image I could use for this goal. I'll fiddle around with them a little, but my abilities are limited to about what you've seen before.
Anyways one thing I would request that would be helpful to a quicker update is some good Grief Spiral texts (I do struggle with making those interesting). You had a fair few this turn. 4x 2 cube spirals, and a 4 cube spiral.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
[Name]'s boyfriend broke up with her, accusing her of infidelity, and he didn't believe her when she said she was a magical girl out hunting monsters. [It took four Cubes to keep her stable.]/[Unfortunately even four cubes was not enough to save her.]
[Name] was randomly depressed this month, [probably from hunting stress]/[for no specific reason the other girls can tell], it took two Cubes to keep her stable.
[Name] was in emotional turmoil from the recent deaths of her friends. It took two Cubes to keep her from spiraling.
[Name] flirted with the law of cycles this month, but kept her reasons her own. It took two Cubes to keep her from being taken.
[Name] failed a test this month, and it acted as focus point for all the stress and pain of being a magical girl. The resulting panic attack drained two Cubes from the coffers of the Serene, but keeping her alive was worth the cost.
[Name] was randomly depressed this month, [probably from hunting stress]/[for no specific reason the other girls can tell], it took two Cubes to keep her stable.
[Name] was in emotional turmoil from the recent deaths of her friends. It took two Cubes to keep her from spiraling.
[Name] flirted with the law of cycles this month, but kept her reasons her own. It took two Cubes to keep her from being taken.
[Name] failed a test this month, and it acted as focus point for all the stress and pain of being a magical girl. The resulting panic attack drained two Cubes from the coffers of the Serene, but keeping her alive was worth the cost.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
[Name]'s sibling has been diagnosed with cancer.
- Location
- South Africa
[name] got into an argument with a mundane friend over where she keeps disappearing to.
[name] watched a depressing movie.
[name's] pet died
[name] witnessed a car accident and upset by her inability to help.
[name] was yelled at by her boss and didn't take it well.
It was the anniversary of [name's] mother's death.
[name] got it into her head that she should have made a different wish.
[name] was distressed after finding a dead cat.
[name's] mundane friend was badly injured.
[name's] boyfriend moved cities.
[name] was once driven out of Kyouko's territory and witnessing her fight brought back uncomfortable flashbacks.
[name's] father lost his job.
[name's] teacher called her into his office to complain about how her grades have dropped.
[name] was too late to a scene to save a civilian from a demon.
[name] watched an upsetting documentary.
[name's] mother was injured at work.
[name] watched a depressing movie.
[name's] pet died
[name] witnessed a car accident and upset by her inability to help.
[name] was yelled at by her boss and didn't take it well.
It was the anniversary of [name's] mother's death.
[name] got it into her head that she should have made a different wish.
[name] was distressed after finding a dead cat.
[name's] mundane friend was badly injured.
[name's] boyfriend moved cities.
[name] was once driven out of Kyouko's territory and witnessing her fight brought back uncomfortable flashbacks.
[name's] father lost his job.
[name's] teacher called her into his office to complain about how her grades have dropped.
[name] was too late to a scene to save a civilian from a demon.
[name] watched an upsetting documentary.
[name's] mother was injured at work.
I tend to prefer the second one. Although I like the Google Maps best actually.
Frankly, I think we might need to switch to multiple maps (put them all in a spoiler, and then each individual map in a spoiler).
Eventually we will need too anyway to handle Tokyo and other major metropolis.
Turn 27
Turn 27
You hold a meeting to make the various announcements for the month, starting with the positive ones: raising the girls allowance, transferring many from apartments to a new house towards Kasamino, and purchasing new bicycles. You then move on to the more mixed things, like the need for refresher courses in training to help integrate Seto's group into your own.
You also encourage your girls to consider writing letters in case of their own deaths. It's not something you wish to happen to anyone, but they need to consider the possibility. You do let everyone know that you're giving them a bit of extra grief cubes to have some fun this month though to make up for the somber tone of last month.
With time for the losses to really sink in on her Seto's not in the cleanest of mental states and accepts the slide in grief cube stockpiles without complaint.
Kyouko's Church
Kyouko admits that her family's church has fallen into a developer's hands due to her inability to pay for taxes on it. She's kept anyone from actually doing anything with it though. She's a bit torn about it though. It was her family's home, and she has good memories, but there are also the terrible ones. It's hard to let go of it, but equally hard to stay there. She's not opposed to the idea of repurposing it though.
Kyuubey admits that he maintains a bit of observation on that situation due to there being a high possibility of masquerade damage from Kyouko's efforts there, although to this point it is believed to be haunted by Kyouko's dead family. Development efforts have largely been written off at this point.
It could likely be purchased at a fraction of its true value, but it is still a rather large piece of real estate on the western edge of Kasamino. Purchasing the land will likely cost only around $500,000. Even with the rising cost of real estate in this region. Refurbishing it could have significant costs though. The basic structure of the building was made in the style of old churches and quite durable, but it will need interior repairs, on top of whatever modifications you would make to render it more suitable for housing.
Arranging for it to be in Kyouko's name would be substantially more effort than for your current budding company to buy it however, as Kyouko does not possess the visible income source to pay for it and its maintenance, a substantial shuffling of assets into her name would be required.
Hunting
You spend the first few days of the month doing refresher training courses to help bring all of Seto's girls up to your current standards, while also helping to integrate them more with your own girls.
Hunting this month has a few complications. One day you end up with one of the pairs of vets hunting the Iwata area calling for help after encountering a dramatically stronger than it should be cluster of demons. Only a minor injury for a magical girl resulted from their retreat. The Elites of the Serene were in the area already and swiftly grouped up and pacified the area, compared to the lizard from last month they were nothing. The result was what bothered you though, a handful of already used up grief cubes. You know such a thing can result from improper storage of grief cubes such that they restore the demons they originally came from, but it's not something you made a mistake with yourself more than once, and all of the Serene should know better.
Kyouko managed to make up the lost time with both her incarnations though and keep the harvest on schedule.
The second issue is when you have Seto go hunting in the nomadic regions beyond your territory she runs into a group of magical girls, though she has little information on them as she was attacked immediately and forced to flee with significant injuries, she's rather depressed at how poorly she's done lately. She ran into them to the north of her own primary territory. Further attempts at hunting went better though she ran into them a couple more times. Based off their spread she doesn't think it possible they're harvesting enough to really be breaking even, though she can't be certain without more information. She still manages to get together a single GCU to contribute to the harvest, she's used to gaining more but there's too much competition now and she wasn't interested in fighting over them.
(71.3 GCU base -.5 GCU injuries + 1 GCU from nomadic region)
Taura and your dispatch team bring up that population in your regions of control seems to be increasing further. Your sustainable harvest has increased by 1 each in your northern and southern hunting zones.
Diplomacy
The girls in area 10 are very grateful or the pamphlet and find it quite helpful to them. The information about the Class 3 demon is worrying, but they had heard rumors passed along from further east and so the information isn't as shocking as it might have been.
You'd half expected that the girls from area 1 wouldn't believe you about it, but they accept your information with a simple acknowledgement and thanks that you dealt with it.
Mundane Economy
Your business operations go rather well this month and you manage to grow your courier business a bit with the added girlpower, you pretty much control the entire market in your region of control now. Your restaurant is fully operational as well this month.
You also arrange to get another house in the eastern end of your territory given how much you've expanded that direction and how many operations you're running there these days it will really simplify things. You give notice about leaving a few of your current apartments, and save on the month's rent since it's already paid and you didn't have any contract.
Morale
You have a big group get together and cycle out to the outskirts of town so you can have a day of team sports and bonding. It goes alright, though at your current size you end up with a lot of different sports going on at the same time. Being able to go out towards the edges of town lets you get bigger more interesting things going on at least. You try to rein in the more visible bits of magic but let them have a bit of fun with it.
You manage to get the rent of the house hammered out just in time to squeeze a proper moving in party at the end of the month and welcome Seto's group at the same time. You spend extra on food and drinks and generally try to have a good time of it, for all that the recent days have been gloomy for them you're trying to give them a new start.
Information Gathering
Picking through the literally millions of hits when you search through the internet for magical girl information is worse than a needle in a haystack. Even basic exclusions of Sailor Moon and Nanoha doesn't really help, you still end up with tens of millions of results. Even going through pages at one a minute for hours doesn't get you through even a fraction of the results and nothing really stands out.
You ask Kyuubey about it, but he's evasive and unhelpful.
General
You aren't too surprised at a large number of grief spirals this month given the drop in morale last month. You weren't pretty much expecting Seto's spiral this month and were well prepared for comforting her one leader to another, her failures in the past two months weighing heavily upon her shoulders for someone used to being the provider and protector. (2 cubes)
One of the original, if unremarkable, veterans you built your group around also spiraled this month, Sakamae has been a magical girl 3 years now, and it seems she had become complacent, used to the life and felt she was okay with it, the shock of last month unsettled her foundation. The second healer from Seto's group Fukuda was in emotional turmoil from the recent deaths of her friends. It took two Cubes to keep her from spiraling.
Nagata Tsuya was too late to a scene to save a civilian from a demon, as a teleporter this hit her especially hard and her life was saved by a hair's breath by Aiko and four units of cubes. Shinobu also spiraled this month, possibly since she's close to Nagata, but she kept her true reasons to herself.
Two of your greens made veteran status this month at least though.
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Resources
- 4 (5) Elite Meguca: Mami (+20% persuasive), Kyouko (can act as if two Elites), Taya (Scouting Bonus), Seto (Elite teleporter)
- 46 Veteran Meguca, 6 Green Meguca, 1 Associate
- Upkeep: 21.5 Veteran, 6 Green, 1 Associate
- Support/Training (9.5 Vet, 1 Green)
- 2.5 vet + 0.5 green demon finding training (+20% grief cubes)
- 2.5 vet + 0.5 green on pack tactics (-4% pack hunting, -2% pair hunting)
- 2 vets on dispatch service (+30% grief cubes additive with demon finding, -1% casualties)
- 1.5 vet on telepathic communication (-2% pair hunting, -1% pack hunting)
- 1 Veteran, Paperpushing
- Jobs (12 Vet, 5 Green, 1 Associate)
- 1 veteran (Hainako) Translation service
- 2 Green working jobs
- 7 veteran + 2 green working courier business (Minimum 3 vets)
- 4 Vets (Akane, Kit), 1 Green, 1 Associate Restaurant
- Support/Training (9.5 Vet, 1 Green)
- Upkeep: 21.5 Veteran, 6 Green, 1 Associate
- Grief Cubes 47.3
- Money: $35,570
- Upkeep $23,520
- $1120 upkeep on cellphones (-2% solo hunting, -1% pair hunting)
- $500 upkeep on cable (increased due to new housing)
- $2500 upkeep on apartments
- $8000 upkeep on house
- $11400 upkeep on stipend
- Income $28,000
- Normal Jobs: +$2000 per turn
- Translator: +$3000 per turn
- Courier Business, Mitakihara: +$9500 per turn
- Courier Business, Kasamino: +$4500 next turn
- Restaurant +$9000 next turn
- Upkeep $23,520
- Morale: [3 of 10] Morale went up a little this month with all the resources you threw at it, but your group still didn't really shake off the malaise with so many spirals. Writing death notes didn't help either.
- Assets
- Tiny household shrine: Somewhat reduces losses to morale from deaths. (Bonus Increased by omake)
- Shields: -3% Casualties
- Basic General Combat Training: -2% Casualties (May decay with losses or recruitment).
- Basic Solo Combat Training: -1% Pack Hunting, -2% pair hunting, -3% Solo Hunting
- Defending Others Training: -2% Pair Hunting, -1% Pack Hunting
- 57 Bicycles (Mobility Bonus)
- 16 Bulletproof vest (-2% casualty)
- 15.8? Sets of Kevlar Clothing (-4% casualty)
- 3 Sets of Leather (-2% casualty)
- 9 sets hardened leather (-3% casualty)
- Housing (56/73)
- Apartments (20 capacity)
- House (50 capacity)
- Mami's Apartment (HQ of sorts) (Can be traded for $1200 per turn)
- Territory
- Urban
- North
- Demon Status: Average 0.0
- Sustainable Harvest: 29
- South
- Demon Status: Strong 9.9
- Sustainable Harvest: 28
- North
- Rural
- Demon Status: Average +0
- Sustainable Harvest: 3
- Seto's territory
- 8 Urban (0 DS)
- 4 Rural (0.3 DS)
- Urban
Okay I think I got the numbers on everything right now. I think this was your last month of payment for masquerade damage to Kyuubey though I'm not too sure.
Grief Cubes 62.1+71.8 hunting -56 upkeep -1 kyoclone -1 demon forecast -11 kyuubey payment -5.6 fun with magic = 59.3 pre spirals -12 spirals = 47.3
Section divisions were pretty much arbitrary wherever I felt like, but seemed I need some level of organization to make sense of it all.
This would probably be ideal, but it takes me a lot of effort to do the maps, more than you'd think since my photo editing skills are pathetic, lol.
Going to update main page list of wish magics momentarily.
Map update still delayed for renewed thought.
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Woot - Update!
Okay... hmm, not to bad, grief cubes turned out worse than hoped but we should finally be able to get ahead again now that we don't have Kyubey's payoff to make.
We'll want to combine the rural territories now. @inverted_helix I assume that will make it Demon Strength 0.2?
I assume the "House" here is actually the two houses combined into one category.
Kyouko's family church makes for a good medium financial goal: $500,000
That's definitely worth it. Perhaps we can add Kyouko as a board member for the company we have. Thus explaining how we learned of it, and also explaining our belief that we can deal with the "haunting spirits."
This group of nomadic magical girls is more interesting. Maybe we can bring them in out of the cold. If Seto thinks she can find them again, perhaps she can set up diplomatic contacts and some information trading. If they really aren't breaking even they might very well be amenable to joining up.
Wonder if they might be refugees from Tokyo?
Need to keep up the morale building. Want to get back up to at least Morale 5.
Okay... hmm, not to bad, grief cubes turned out worse than hoped but we should finally be able to get ahead again now that we don't have Kyubey's payoff to make.
We'll want to combine the rural territories now. @inverted_helix I assume that will make it Demon Strength 0.2?
I assume the "House" here is actually the two houses combined into one category.
Kyouko's family church makes for a good medium financial goal: $500,000
That's definitely worth it. Perhaps we can add Kyouko as a board member for the company we have. Thus explaining how we learned of it, and also explaining our belief that we can deal with the "haunting spirits."
This group of nomadic magical girls is more interesting. Maybe we can bring them in out of the cold. If Seto thinks she can find them again, perhaps she can set up diplomatic contacts and some information trading. If they really aren't breaking even they might very well be amenable to joining up.
Wonder if they might be refugees from Tokyo?
Need to keep up the morale building. Want to get back up to at least Morale 5.
@inverted_helix: why not start drawing on Google Maps? That way you can zoom in and out as needed, and not have to rely on static images.
Ah, another instance of sabotage. The poaching incident came from the south area too, didn't it? I think it may be time to start leaning on people and breaking faces, at least setting up a fast response squad.
@Elder Haman Seto being "attacked immediately" seems to contraindicate "willing to join up." That group's going to be a bit prickly; we at least need to have more of a cube surplus than we have before we can really entice anybody.
Thinking about it, probably the best way to repurpose and use Kyouko's family church would be to turn it into a school.
Probably make it into the start of our "exclusive cram school" plan. Students by invitation only. Get some more income coming in from the parents of magical girls that are still living with family. Provide some cram school stuff to help girls stay on top of their schooling. Provide a place for a more organized magical instruction to go on as well.
Also, provide a location for large meetings (we are getting to where we need that now). Can become the center of what we hope will be a larger Serene Empire. Eventually provide a place for people to meet and make connections in the magical girl society we are trying to build.
Not at all. It signals that they are desperate. Why else are they running around the nomadic areas trying to hunt as a pack?
Only a starving man tries to rob a beggar. So as long as we are willing to take them in I doubt they will be asking questions about grief cube stockpiles.
Probably make it into the start of our "exclusive cram school" plan. Students by invitation only. Get some more income coming in from the parents of magical girls that are still living with family. Provide some cram school stuff to help girls stay on top of their schooling. Provide a place for a more organized magical instruction to go on as well.
Also, provide a location for large meetings (we are getting to where we need that now). Can become the center of what we hope will be a larger Serene Empire. Eventually provide a place for people to meet and make connections in the magical girl society we are trying to build.
Not at all. It signals that they are desperate. Why else are they running around the nomadic areas trying to hunt as a pack?
Only a starving man tries to rob a beggar. So as long as we are willing to take them in I doubt they will be asking questions about grief cube stockpiles.
Hmm I thought I was a bit more precise than that. This latest incident is in your Iwata territory, technically in your southern region. Previous poaching was in your main area, though in the southern half.
Yes.
I might try this. Google maps usually has too much density of stuff to make the clean looking map I've been using but I'll fiddle with it.
Try this for a start.
Note that this is crashing my main instance of Firefox, so I've had to open it in a separate instance of Chromium to get it to work right.
Drawing regions and stuff is pretty easy, and cranking down the polygon transparency lets you layer right over the density.
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Quoting a bunch of posts to make it easier to review some of the discussion we had during the interim.
@inverted_helix Also, a question I never got answered:
How many couriers needed and what is the expected financial gain from expanding the courier business into Seto's territory?
1 for +$1500
2 for +$3000
Some other numbers?
Okay, so there was the moped idea. Harvest rate of each girl equipped with a moped increased by 10%.
Although I think we might have come up with a better idea with the teleporter transport. That's very detailed though, so I'm gonna put that in it's own post.
Hmm... looks like it's fiction all the way down. At least so far. Putting up the manual as a background document for a fictional universe does not seem like something that will be useful at all to us.
Apparently searches on "Kyubey" and "QB" turned up nothing, suggesting the Incubators are deliberately censoring things. So we can't just put it up as is either.
This... is going to take some major thought. We need to make it visible for girls searching for it, but not visible for the Incubators...
Hmm.... you know... if we had a successful idol working for us who we could have mention in an interview how much she loves a certain series on magical girls, which is written about a magical girl organization called the Serene Imperium...
Then we might get enough attention to cut through Sailor Moon, and we then could have this be published as background documents for how the world works.
Essentially create a visible masquerade to conceal the real masquerade.
This is certainly going to be a long term project though.
Below I posted a bunch of posts from our brainstorming on how to improve our efficiency:
I think we learned #3 is at least a big location for increased savings.
Idea for a formal research team.
Ideas on how to spend resources on research and diplomacy this turn.
@inverted_helix Also, a question I never got answered:
How many couriers needed and what is the expected financial gain from expanding the courier business into Seto's territory?
1 for +$1500
2 for +$3000
Some other numbers?
Okay, so there was the moped idea. Harvest rate of each girl equipped with a moped increased by 10%.
Although I think we might have come up with a better idea with the teleporter transport. That's very detailed though, so I'm gonna put that in it's own post.
Hmm... looks like it's fiction all the way down. At least so far. Putting up the manual as a background document for a fictional universe does not seem like something that will be useful at all to us.
Apparently searches on "Kyubey" and "QB" turned up nothing, suggesting the Incubators are deliberately censoring things. So we can't just put it up as is either.
This... is going to take some major thought. We need to make it visible for girls searching for it, but not visible for the Incubators...
Hmm.... you know... if we had a successful idol working for us who we could have mention in an interview how much she loves a certain series on magical girls, which is written about a magical girl organization called the Serene Imperium...
Then we might get enough attention to cut through Sailor Moon, and we then could have this be published as background documents for how the world works.
Essentially create a visible masquerade to conceal the real masquerade.
This is certainly going to be a long term project though.
Below I posted a bunch of posts from our brainstorming on how to improve our efficiency:
I think we learned #3 is at least a big location for increased savings.
Idea for a formal research team.
Ideas on how to spend resources on research and diplomacy this turn.
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Collection of posts on teleporter transport:
Never got a final decision on this from @inverted_helix
Have you decided on what cost/benefit model we are going to use for a teleporter transport plan?
Never got a final decision on this from @inverted_helix
Have you decided on what cost/benefit model we are going to use for a teleporter transport plan?
Ah... interesting....
Need to spend some more time on diplomancing the Iwata territory.