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Alrighty then. That will come in handy for testing a minigun.
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The Architect of Anarchy: A Cyberpunk Crafting Quest
- Thread starter Magoose
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Arsene Lupin
I Am The Pillager Of Twilight
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[X] Plan Dragon Scales & Heavens Fire
I just realized a good option for inspiration when we design a sword. Since Senji is seeming going whole hog on being proud of his adopted home we could make a sword based on the ceremonial US officer's sabre.
Similarly I'd have him decorate his warehouse workshop top to bottom with Americana. It doesn't help much practically but it's good for thematics.
Similarly I'd have him decorate his warehouse workshop top to bottom with Americana. It doesn't help much practically but it's good for thematics.
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Magoose
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I fixed the component cost.
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I don't see remember a thing indicating Senji rejecting anything but the Arasaka part of his heritage, or particular embracing the star spangle banner? Feels a little reaching. Arasaka bad, Japanese historical weaponry cool.
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I have really rotten luck never being near a computer when it's time to write a plan in this quest.
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The Correct Make of a Proper American Sword is a Mamaluk Sabre, chosen for US Marine Corp Excillence during the Barbary Wars.
And why do I feel like Johnny Owns one given he was a Marine?
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He really hates Arasaka. rather then say, hating Japan and loving his adopted homeland.
Its just that, with Arasaka being so full hog on the whole... japanese ultranationalism it makes it hard to find pride in its homeland.
I thought the new workshop we have gives us a +1 in quality?
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In the final quality yes.
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Well yeah, but that's modern Japan, Arasaka Japan, not Historical Japan and it's pre Tokugawa government culture.
Also, our count of standard components is wrong. We had 640 at the start of turn 7, and earned 1500 between our 2 missions for that turn, putting it at 2140 instead of the 1440 components it says we have on turn 8 threadmark post.
The Americana starts out as a way to symbolically act out against his Japanese parents and their Japanese-supremacist bosses. What way to piss off Arasaka more than embrace the country that knocked the Empire on its ass? Especially when the very existence of America makes Saburo so angry.
I figure that the best way to honor the oldest weapon still issued to US soldiers is to design a version of it that is usable in this cyberpunk setting.
I can get behind going all in on American symbols and culture and making American arms and armor, if only for a character arc where Senji learns to accept his Japanese heritage and make it his own, something not twisted by Arasaka.
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Returning to Japan's shogunate days before the empire was unified by claiming a chunk of night city as our personal Fief? I based the character on a cool Japanese blacksmith who was a thorn in the Tokugawa administration side and a famous Japanese Samurai who built himself to prominence despite never being on good terms with the unifying rulers of Japan post warring states. I don't really want to go all American.
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Yeah, if we aren't making katanas at some point it's a complete waste of a character name.
Story wise, completely rejecting everything Japanese is like running away and conceding defeat to Arasaka. And that's no fun. Instead lets steal the narrative of what Japanese culture is from Arasaka. What's better? Saboro's precious Arasaka Japan being destroyed by the enemy America? Or his precious Japan being ripped away and reformed?
Since a lot of the thread is for all-American arms and armor, and we've only been making specifically American themed arms and armor, trying to make Japanese gear now would kind of come out of nowhere and probably be passed over with little fanfare. Instead, let's make it a character moment, a moment of growth, where Senji finally takes complete agency over his choices.
Since we're going all-in on heavy duty armor we could have Senji have his character moment and create high-tech samurai armor as a way to reclaim Japanese culture from Arasaka. Though sprinkling on American symbols on a take on historic Japanese armor could showcase how Senji has taken to the land he was exiled to.
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[X]Plan: Kitting out our Samurai
[X]Plan: Kitting out our Samurai
[X]Hope is a Good thing (Johnny's Riot will encompass the entire city, and it will target Arasaka all over the place)
[X]Hope is a Good thing (Johnny's Riot will encompass the entire city, and it will target Arasaka all over the place)
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Eh...but what would prompt Senji in quest to do so? Doing it now is too out of the blue for me. Right now I feel Senji is too monofocused over Kenji's near death and preventing it from happening again to be making grand gestures like that. Character moments hit harder when they have buildup, and reclaiming Japanese culture from Arasaka should be a big character moment.
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Wouldn't that be next turn? After defeating our evil corpo mom and taking control of the building we live in? Also we've made the thompson. 1 of them. The killer angel isn't an american gun so much as a standard hunting pistol turned unique hold out pistol. The armor is named for greek stuff and works with our arasaka academy uniform as much as anything else we own. We haven't done that much either way in terms of favoring any culture.
Guys we are about to go up against our corpo mother and her elite security from Japan, possibly while also fighting off rioters Johnny riled up for being an arasaka academy student. We need more than just urban armor rated for small arms and shrapnel. we need the heaviest, meanest, toughest doom armor we can make. We are going to be in two separate firefights. We can't rely on being healed, we need to prevent the damage. Please, don't stick us with urban armor against Arasaka military grade blackops.
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What Randino says. We're practically going to war. So we should be prepared.
[X]Plan: Kitting out our Samurai
Kenji definitely feels more like a medium armor user than anything. Agile, but not completely reliant on speed to win combat.
The other plan would be a good choice for Malcom though, super-heavy armor that has all the subtly of a brick to the face.
Kenji definitely feels more like a medium armor user than anything. Agile, but not completely reliant on speed to win combat.
The other plan would be a good choice for Malcom though, super-heavy armor that has all the subtly of a brick to the face.