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If Shayin were just going to teleport him up, he would have just asked for his coordinates instead of demanding that Zaiyu bring him to Kaoru.
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But your getting a hospital trio. Shayin is plagued by constant migraines, so technically he counts.Damn I wanted more the hospital tro
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This is why we need to discuss what are stories gonna be? Heck! He might not even go with a disguise necessarily If that's the narrative, we choose to spin.
I just realized we forced our crews final boss to go to earth early because we've uncovered so many problems he feels like he can't rely on our action economy alone to do it.
Critical Success I guess!
Critical Success I guess!
The MG Negaquests, looking at the Nat 1 on the Random Event roll, for the third turn in a row:
Indescribable panic
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Yeah. All three of his crew.
Also I guess the constant one he gets from being a Pilot, too.
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Zaiyu is more of a cat. It's the disgusting things he drops in Shayin's lap that induce the migraine.
Haven't they actually been doing pretty well actually? I don't think anything would have given them a Nat 1...
...Come to think of it what are we going to do when we inevitable confront them? I rather doubt that the usual Dark general routine will work out for us.
Thing is, a Random Event Roll isn't related to what they're doing, but to what strange events occur.
In this case, the RER nat 1-ing is us finding all this stuff, but since we keep getting reasons to stay quiet from it, from their hypothetical perspective several times things have gone very well for their enemies off-screen, and they have no idea who those enemies even are, let alone what actually happened. Cue the panic.
And I'd say that depends on how we confront them, if we even do at all. As things are currently going, there's a chance we might never confront them at all, and instead simply solve all our problems without them even noticing we were here. I'd be both disappointed and laughing my rear off if that did happen, though.
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Steal it, obviously. We're not opposed to the existence of whatever they're doing, we just don't want them to have it. And why not take advantage of their hard work?
It would make sense to limit how many cover stories we invent...
but it also reduces the trouble we can get Zaiyu in when people start poking at his cover.
And like a cat, Zaiyu thinks he's helping.Zaiyu is more of a cat. It's the disgusting things he drops in Shayin's lap that induce the migraine.
Unlike a cat, he's arguably right. Shayin's job would be way harder if he found out about this stuff on the fly.
And then we kindnapped and or destroy the princesses dad.
Which might actually accidentally improve our relationship with the MGs depending on how bad true blood between the two is.
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Zaiyu: I'm sorry, I'm sure your father was a great man.
Tomoe: I hated my father!
Zaiyu: Well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.
Tomoe: How dare you talk about my father like that?!
Tomoe: I hated my father!
Zaiyu: Well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.
Tomoe: How dare you talk about my father like that?!
Nah Zaiyu ask Tomoe what her father did ans by the end is utterly shocked at the evil of it.
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While it's a good idea to limit the number of cover stories, it's also pretty overwrought and unnecessarily complex. While for most of the girls the cover sounding like it's right out of a manga actually fits their new lives as Magical Girls, their leader should pretty much hate this story. From her perspective:
Option 1- The cover story of there being a "Magical Human Tradition" that interacts with magic to some degree is true and exists . . . and they've basically left her alone to deal with her Father and the machinations of her Father this whole time. All of the hard work she (and her genius on staff) have put into . . . and there could've/should've been support for them this whole time?! Where have they been?! What have they been doing?! They need to be helping right freaking now because her Father is insane!! Give my team aid, please, now!
Option 2- The cover story is a lie . . . but by who and for what purpose? Investigate using Zaibatsu Heiress resources the claims that such an organization exists! Socially pressure the "agents" of this "organization" interacting with your team of magical girls to offer specific information that can be investigated! Keep forcing them to twist and turn to maintain the cover and eventually piece together a full picture of what's going on! Make sure to pressure aid out of them, see if that gives any clues!
A better cover story is a simpler cover story with less moving parts. Kai Tendo is a mysterious investigator with relatively unexplained powers that's secretive, work-oriented and living outside the human norm. Makes his money doing odd jobs but especially information gathering work, because he loves it. He often investigates magical situations for fun but he usually can't find a client. Mundane situations are usually beneath his skill level but at least they pay. He's not talking about any specifics of his magic. He's especially not talking about any organizations full of moving parts and verifiable loose ends. He's a troubled but brilliant loner that stumbled onto a much more serious situation than expected. An anti-social version of what happened to Miss Zaibatsu Heiress and her brilliant colleague/subordinate. They're smart, lucky/unlucky, and doing their best. Kai just has much less access to support than them.
The "lone genius stumbles into it" story is also much harder to investigate for multiple reasons. The biggest simplification offered is that there's no organization to track down or theoretically support Kai and potentially the Magical Girl Team. Impositions for assistance are asking Kai directly to spend his time helping, which is harder to socially pressure than some nebulous organization of unknown membership and means.
There's nothing preventing him from knowing Yuu of course, but he's also not explicitly connected to Yuu in any way. Zaiyu can leave the Yuu identity to be a more mundane friend that has no reason to be involved in the magical side. Thus, there'll never be a social gathering that Yuu and Kai should both be at. This is a major flaw with having them both be in the same organization.
TL;DR the cover story of a larger organization is actually too true for its' own good and way easier to prod and twist at than a simpler one would be. It pins the focus of investigation onto a mysterious group rather than focusing on the mysteries of a lone individual that could plausibly have stumbled into the whole situation like the Heiress and the Boy-Genius did. By being so large in scope it limits Zaiyu's maneuvering room and gives the Heiress plenty of leads to pull on and/or investigate.
It's somewhat competent as a cover story, but it's not the hyper-competence Zaiyu has generally been using. It's much more aligned to the teenage part of teenage-genius than the genius part.
But it sounds like a lot of fun to try to watch Zaiyu try to make it work
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Don't see much point in 'the secret org' idea myself best to just imply it's a handful of families that deliberately kept under the radar as opposed to anything professional.
That way we can also use it as an excuse for not knowing some basic stuff.
That way we can also use it as an excuse for not knowing some basic stuff.
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Let's just say it's a very small organization. Or that it used to be way more powerful, but it's been falling into ruin
Heck You can apply that some kind of accident. Led to some kind of issues which led to lack of knowledge of basic stuff ( Crystallization., Bumpy time travel, forcefully reincarnated, For a bit They stopped existing,Technically your now Ghost possessing someone something Strange, Bizarre and Horrify like that
)Or mostly a small group of hermits.
Heck You can apply that some kind of accident. Led to some kind of issues which led to lack of knowledge of basic stuff ( Crystallization., Bumpy time travel, forcefully reincarnated, For a bit They stopped existing,Technically your now Ghost possessing someone something Strange, Bizarre and Horrify like that
Actually when I said lacks knowledge I meant lacks knowledge of some parts of human society at large.
Best to have a cover story that actually covers with of Zaiyu's weaknesses.
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the cleanest cover is being a lone genius/talent acting alone that stumbled into the hospital mess for Kai and Yuu just being a school kid if we spend actions going to school
I mean. It's basically the same thing that the engineer of the Magical Girl Transformation exo-suits was. The difference is that whatever was going on in Kai's life left him far outside the system and he had the power to stay off the radar. Something that implies traumatic circumstances that'd be natural to be cagey/secretive/quiet/on-edge about.
There's no actual need for any organization or family to exist. It's all an unnecessary dramatic flourish, I just think it'd be a fun way to actualize the "I'm so smart I outsmart myself" flaw
I mean. It's basically the same thing that the engineer of the Magical Girl Transformation exo-suits was. The difference is that whatever was going on in Kai's life left him far outside the system and he had the power to stay off the radar. Something that implies traumatic circumstances that'd be natural to be cagey/secretive/quiet/on-edge about.
There's no actual need for any organization or family to exist. It's all an unnecessary dramatic flourish, I just think it'd be a fun way to actualize the "I'm so smart I outsmart myself" flaw
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I think it's a little early to decide on a whole cover story. We don't even know what we'll need to cover up!
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A key component of "being so smart you outsmart yourself" is pre-committing to a plan without proper information or infiltration going on to make sure the idea is a good one.
Like, say, for example there was a hypothetical invasion of Earth planned. And we immediately find a scheme to resurrect/reproduce Mana Eaters in weaponized numbers. And find a human going through Estilization(!?). And find impossible proof that there's a better mage in the Estil-tradition than Zaiyu working on Earth. And that at least one hospital has already been set up as a misery engine. And there are an unknown amount of women/girls with Estil Exo-suits.
~soo you know. It'd be in character to not work on our cover story yet.
But would that be funny though
Like, say, for example there was a hypothetical invasion of Earth planned. And we immediately find a scheme to resurrect/reproduce Mana Eaters in weaponized numbers. And find a human going through Estilization(!?). And find impossible proof that there's a better mage in the Estil-tradition than Zaiyu working on Earth. And that at least one hospital has already been set up as a misery engine. And there are an unknown amount of women/girls with Estil Exo-suits.
~soo you know. It'd be in character to not work on our cover story yet.
But would that be funny though
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The reason The reason to have an organization and/or family is that we can bring the other members of the team down and for them to have a readily avariable disguise to use.
I mean, for the liver of God our boss who is the unholy mix of "if he doesn't concentrate, He might accidentally destroy a planet" And "I have constant migraines Strong enough to make my brain into a nice smoothie" Is risking going down on earth for a meeting!
Having up back story that can covered for TEAM members make sense if this is Even a little bit assign for things to come for things to come at all.
What are Zaiyu's weaknesses? Just asking for a friend *<● : ]
( Jokes aside, what is it you think? Are the weaknesses of Zaiyu's, His teammates and, the whole operation?)
I was specifically referring to his intrigue and cover stories in general..... which in this case is the fact that as good as he is Zaiyu is still ultimate ignorant of large parts of human society.
Being raised away from most of it by hermits actually gives him a very good cover on that front.
.... Also Zaiyu is a monster maker he'd totally be a less evil and better looking (By human standards) version of the NME salesman.
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I kind of just realized this, We might be able to use some of the magic item found in the aftermath of Rose's magical awakening for the Kamen Rider armor if not, we can just use it as like power ups for it