The Perfectly Normal High School: A Slice of Life Quest! (Defunct)

We need money for the very phone to put that app on? We are currently without any means of communication besides our computer.
If we don't have the app, buying the phone is a moot point. I agree that the communication thing is a problem, but I'd like to make a little progress on code so we know if there are any milestones between 50 and 10000.

After that I'm totally fine with putting it on the backburner.

That being said, observing Maeda has very valid points I didn't remember.

[x] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
-[x] "Is there any other way I can contact you if I see anything, Officer...?"
[x] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)
[x] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Yumika
[X] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)
[x] [CLUB] Help out the officers. (Influence the actions of Yumika and Reizei, REL increase, ???)

[x] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[x] Alone
[X] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[X] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)

Still up for changing the last one, but remember the plan guys; 7 SKL by Week 7.
 
[X] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
[X] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)

Getting police attention to this is highly likely to just get Silas backtraced as a leak and get visited for some happy fun memory adjustment. No thanks, not yet through this avenue anyway.
And while Silas has problems, complete denial ain't the way to go...yet. We'll cut him off if we can't have him manage his shit properly.

[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Maeda Kirino
[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
[X] [CLUB] Help out the officers. (Influence the actions of Yumika and Reizei, REL increase, ???)
[X] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[X] Alone
[X] [AS] Visit a location.
-[X] Stay afterschool (Meet students? Learn more about the school?)

Thoughts:
Kirino on our side more would be incredibly valuable, including the Nanami connection. Also, she's cool, y'know?
Hana was already mentioned as not having a great time of things by Yumika, so there's an opening there. And we also know that missing Nanami (who was one of her closest friends) hasn't been good for her either. Trying to push her to 20 and Friends. (And of course she's got Some Shit going on, which is interesting.)
Help out the Officers to help Yumika, since she's overworked in the wake of the last Fun events.
Hammer the skill button, we need it badly.
I waffled for awhile on either double Study or something else but I also think we need to keep a outside contact release valve going for Silas. Scoping out the school a bit more seem to be a reasonable balance of triggering useful things, not being a waste of time because he has not enough money or stats to do a thing, or circling into bad habits.
 
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I'm tempted to split our social actions between observing Maeda, and talking with Kuroda Harima/M&B LARP-guy. He could be someone we could geek out over strategy games with, though of course he's no waifu.
 
I'd be up for it in our next choice. But can we please take Shinohara action this turn? It's hard to raise her REL because of periodic lockdowns, but she is one of our highest current contacts.

If it succeeds now, it'll probably result in another Avoidance status, freeing up the slot for other social actions.

Edit: wait, Kuroda? Why not Hanamura? The guy even has 'wants to be friends' written on his REL status. We are kinda snubbing him for two weeks...
 
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I'd be up for it in our next choice. But can we please take Shinohara action this turn? It's hard to raise her REL because of periodic lockdowns, but she is one of our highest current contacts.

If it succeeds now, it'll probably result in another Avoidance status, freeing up the slot for other social actions.

Edit: wait, Kuroda? Why not Hanamura? The guy even has 'wants to be friends' written on his REL status. We are kinda snubbing him for two weeks...

For the first, I think we can get someone besides the Fear Elemental to 20 just fine. Maybe even Maeda, if this observe thing works out.

For the Edit, Hanamura also has 'massive creep' written in the first line of his description, and all over his characterization.
 
Hanamura also has 'massive creep' written in the first line of his description, and all over his characterization.
Jesus. That's a bit judgemental, don't you think? If our schoolmates were half as harsh towards an asocial otaku dweeb anime-loving protagonist who likes his privacy, we'd be the pariah of our class ever since our SELF-INTRODUCTIONS.
 
[X] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
[X] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)
[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: (Reizei Renji)
[X] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)
[X] [CLUB] Help out the officers. (Influence the actions of Yumika and Reizei, REL increase, ???)
[X] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[X] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)
[X] [AS] Work at DreamerLuci's Subforum (Gain ¥1000-¥3000)
 
[x] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
-[x] "Is there any other way I can contact you if I see anything, Officer...?"
[x] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)
[x] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Yumika
[X] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)
[x] [CLUB] Help out the officers. (Influence the actions of Yumika and Reizei, REL increase, ???)

[x] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[x] Alone
[X] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[X] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)
 
Jesus. That's a bit judgemental, don't you think? If our schoolmates were half as harsh towards an asocial otaku dweeb anime-loving protagonist who likes his privacy, we'd be the pariah of our class ever since our SELF-INTRODUCTIONS.

True, but I still don't exactly want to be any more on his radar for fanfics than we already are. Maybe if we become friends with him we can ask him to write us towards pairings that our character finds less creepy? Or even no pairings at all? Or just ask him to never mention any fanfic involving us. :p
 
Oh, don't worry, our AVOIDANCE status just expired. And looking at our REL table, she is second only to Yumika in how close she is to the magical 20 REL threshold we need for the quest. You won't let a girl go hungry, right, Silas? Why the pale face?
Good point. But if getting her to 20 is the goal, then you should pick a different [CLUB] option, since helping the officers focuses only on Yumika and Reizei.

[X] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.

[X] [MMO] It's not worth it. Too much to worry about as-is. Scrap the idea and forget about Tale of Merika. (Silas is sad.)

[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
[X] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)

[X] [CLUB] Hang out (Random REL Increase with club members)

[X] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[X] Alone
[X] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[X] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)
 
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Regarding [CLUB] actions: if I recall correctly, Drama Club is planning to do screenwriting this week, and have sinister plans of making Silas the lead. I think spending this action on working would allow us to have more influence on this project, and so more opportunities to get what we want later, be that REL increase or choosing a more appropriate role for ourselves.

[x] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
[x] [MMO] It's not worth it. Too much to worry about as-is. Scrap the idea and forget about Tale of Merika. (Silas is sad.)

[x] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
[x] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)

[x] [CLUB] Work (Influence club actions, ???)

[x] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[x] Alone
[x] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[x] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)

I remember that being a bit of lore, where some people can develop resistance to the specific cocktail of drugs the Foundation uses and is able to recover a bit of their 'forgotten' memory.
Not necessarily. There isn't really centralized Foundation lore/canon, not for such details.

Why is it important that you maintain your ability to nuke us all, Big Sis?!!!!!
Because the threat of nuclear bombardment is a nearly-universal short-term solution to every social problem, and the majority of other ones?
A guy threatens to hit you ? Threaten to nuke the city if he does. The Student Council is about to erase your memory? Set up a nuclear dead man's switch and tell them about it. The police is pursuing you? Take the city hostage. A politician is annoying you? Threaten to nuke his family. The government wants to capture you? Threaten to start World War 3. Aliens are invading? Nuke them. A malevolent AI is running amok? Blow up the nukes in upper atmosphere to fry everything electronic. SCP-3125 is invading human reality? Nuke yourself to contain the outbreak.

Fortunately, this definition should still prevent Big Sister from nuking everyone.
Not if you're inspired. Advanced data-mining technologies in combination with a complete theory of human mind, absolutely ludicrous computational resources, and passable nanotechnology would theoretically allow for true resurrection: procedural generation of human minds indistinguishable from the ones that once were alive but got infokilled, with subsequent creation of suitable vessels for them. I'm reasonably confident it will require more computational resources than our sorry universe could provide solely if we're planning to resurrect everyone from a few centuries ago; if we're talking only about the currently living, the set of possible human minds that would need actualizing could probably be comfortably hosted on our galaxy's worth of Matrioshka brains. (That's assuming the Foundation doesn't have access to hypercomputers or the like, mind you. Otherwise, all bets are off.)

So, not really.

True, but I still don't exactly want to be any more on his radar for fanfics than we already are. Maybe if we become friends with him we can ask him to write us towards pairings that our character finds less creepy? Or even no pairings at all? Or just ask him to never mention any fanfic involving us. :p
Pff, we just need to feed him ideas for scandalous fiction not involving Silas faster than he can get bored with them. We're a hivemind with nearly-perfect memory and access to the Internet; it would be a walk in the park.
 
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We should try to manage rather than cut off Silas entirely, he will get sad otherwise and sad Silas is bad.

Aaaannd will probably affect the rest of the actions negatively. No need for extremes.

So I thiink...

[X] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
[X] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)

[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Maeda Kirino
[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
[X] [CLUB] Hang out (Random REL Increase with club members)
[X] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[X] Alone

[X] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[X] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)

And working on big sis code should pan out pretty well in the future.
 
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@Spectrum, @Crow, I advice changing
[ ] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara Hana
TO:
[ ] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara

@Nevill, @boonerunner, likewise:
[ ] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: Maeda
TO:
[ ] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)

As otherwise the voting program will count these votes as different. Conformity must be enforced!
 
The tally has an option to manage votes manually, though, merging the derivatives. But for ease of use I'll change mine.

I will also change my CLUB vote, since indeed it looks like affecting the inner workings of the club is something we may find more beneficial than hanging out with our officers.
 
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Would also like to point out that you won't necessarily need 10000 in order to fabricate the Companion App. The action will become available at around 300 with a low success chance, success is maxed at around 1000.

Also! I have a channel on this discord now. Apparently this server is some sort of giant conglomerate for Quests and Fics all over SV, so that's pretty interesting. Feel free to join my little section of the server to rage against my incredible incompetence and plot socialist revolutions, all that fun stuff. Thanks to @Jhin Lemon for the invite!
 
[x] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
-[x] "Is there any other way I can contact you if I see anything, Officer...?"
[x] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)
[X] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)
[x] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
[X] [CLUB] Hang out (Random REL Increase with club members)
 
Because the threat of nuclear bombardment is a nearly-universal short-term solution to every social problem, and the majority of other ones?

Of course, how could I forget! Silas has been doing social interactions wrong this entire time! :p

Not if you're inspired. Advanced data-mining technologies in combination with a complete theory of human mind, absolutely ludicrous computational resources, and passable nanotechnology would theoretically allow for true resurrection: procedural generation of human minds indistinguishable from the ones that once were alive but got infokilled, with subsequent creation of suitable vessels for them. I'm reasonably confident it will require more computational resources than our sorry universe could provide solely if we're planning to resurrect everyone from a few centuries ago; if we're talking only about the currently living, the set of possible human minds that would need actualizing could probably be comfortably hosted on our galaxy's worth of Matrioshka brains. (That's assuming the Foundation doesn't have access to hypercomputers or the like, mind you. Otherwise, all bets are off.)

Good point, I suppose the code doesn't really say that it has to be irreversible through current capabilities.

Pff, we just need to feed him ideas for scandalous fiction not involving Silas faster than he can get bored with them. We're a hivemind with nearly-perfect memory and access to the Internet; it would be a walk in the park.

Perfect!
 
[X] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.

[X] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)
 
[x] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.

[x] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)

[x] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone:
[x] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Who?) (Danger)

[x] [CLUB] Help out the officers. (Influence the actions of Yumika and Reizei, REL increase, ???)

[x] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[x] Just talk. Big Sis must be lonely, right? (???)
 
[x] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.
-[x] "Is there any other way I can contact you if I see anything, Officer...?"

[X] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)

[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Maeda Kirino
[X] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
[X] [CLUB] Hang out (Random REL Increase with club members)
[X] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[X] Alone

[X] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[X] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)
 
Vote loooooock~

[] [MMO] It couldn't hurt to play casually… (New "Otaku Stuff" action, ???)
[] [RESPOND] Silas shakes his head silently.

[] [SOCIAL] INT: Observe someone: (Maeda Kirino) (Danger)
[] [SOCIAL] CHAR: Talk with someone: Shinohara
(What a delicious combination! ^^)

[] [CLUB] Help out the officers. (Influence the actions of Yumika and Reizei, REL increase, ???)

[] [AS] Study (Possible SKL +0.5)
-[] Alone
[] [AS] Talk with Big Sis
-[] Work on understanding Big Sis's code. (Current understanding: 50/10000)

And now for your DICE ROOOOOOLLLLLL(s)
LuciDreamer threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Observe: Maeda Total: 74
74 74
LuciDreamer threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Talk: Shinohara Total: 88
88 88
LuciDreamer threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Club: Officers Total: 54
54 54
LuciDreamer threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Study Total: 42
42 42
LuciDreamer threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Programminf Hobby Total: 92
92 92
LuciDreamer threw 1 50-faced dice. Reason: - Total: 16
16 16
 
<<DAILY REMINDER THAT FOR SOCIAL ACTIONS, HIGH NUMBERS = BAD>>

I use a threshold system. The threshold is increased and decreased by status effects and traits and the students' traits. If the dice goes ABOVE the threshold, it returns a failure. If it goes BELOW, success.

As an example:

Ichiro has an INT of 10. He attempts to Observe Silas. The math goes something like this:

Success Threshold: 50 (Base Sociability) + 50 (Extremely High INT) + 10 (Positive Trait) - 20 (Negative Mood) - 15 (Negative Trait) - 5 (Low CHAR) = 70

>Ichiro rolls a 12.

Great Success! This means he succeeds in his action thoroughly and usually learns more than he expected about Silas, like who he hilds in high regard.

>Ichiro rolls a 1.

Crit Success! Ichiro manages to get Silas to reveal something incredibly important and personal, and Silas doesn't even notice. Naturally, this would be info about Big Sister.

>Ichiro rolls a 79.

Failure! Ichiro's attempt is found out and Silas is made aware he's attempting to gauge information from him, making future Observe attempts less likely to succeed.

And so on.

So, uhh... fun times ahead!
 
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