Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
- Location
- Canada
[X] Give Usagi the Toy
- Location
- madison
[X] Give Naru the Toy
Naru is a squishy, so her losing combat is more likely to hurt her in a permanent way.
Naru is a squishy, so her losing combat is more likely to hurt her in a permanent way.
[X] Give Naru the Toy
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Anyone could cap out on it in the first week of a two-week turn; it's just a question of which turn, so I wouldn't consider that a clincher. But I do agree that Naru needs it more.
That's not a bad argument, especially since she does practice quite a bit of magic in the background.
Not necessarily. Arguably, given the way Rei's special action works, it may be just as well if she has distinct specializations that don't strictly overlap with Usagi's specializations.
Consider the three characters capable of taking National actions, based on our current dynamics.
Rei's statline is Diplomacy 9, Martial 24, Stewardship 15, Intrigue 8, Learning 11.
Usagi's statline is Diplomacy 23, Martial 21, Stewardship 13, Intrigue 6, Learning 18.
Minako's statline is Diplomacy 11, Martial 24, Stewardship 2, Intrigue 12, Learning 4. (Yeah, she's kinda monofocused)
Rei is noticeably better than us at pure Martial/Stewardship/Intrigue actions, by a margin of +2 or +3 points, so it makes by far the most sense to assign her to those areas and gain a free action in one of those areas.
Minako is noticeably better than Usagi in Martial and dramatically better in Intrigue (twelve versus six), while being merely OK in Diplomacy and absolutely pants at everything else. Here, too, it makes sense to assign her to actions in her areas of strength.
But trying to push Rei's Learning up towards 18 (!) so she can do as well on a Learning action as Usagi could strikes me as a bit of a losing proposition, especially since Usagi's own Learning score is not necessarily a stationary target. There will nearly always be something more productive for Rei to do in one of the categories where she already has comparative advantage, and the same goes for Minako, especially given that for the foreseeable future, there will be a constant stream of "Search for ____" Intrigue actions and Usagi is actively bad at those.
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Minako: "Sheesh, it's almost like you didn't spend evenings for months on end compulsively patrolling the city skyline in search of anything whatsoever that might be amiss!"
Naru is much more dependent on her abilities as a combat sorceress than the Senshi, and in the future may use those abilities much more than Luna usually does. OOC, we know Alice is destined to become a Pretty Cure, but then she too will have physical enhancement and special magical attacks (well, defenses) to fall back on.
[X] Give Naru the Toy
And by the time we manage to knit together one that's capable of holding up adequately against minimum plausible relevant threats, given how copious our free time is, it'll be ready to give to Chibiusa for her umpty-umpth birthday party as a pet!
...Come to think of it, that could unironically become Luna-P's combat mode. Because Chibiusa is from far enough in the future that Usagi could conceivably have had time to chain-summon, assemble, balance, and calibrate a Thingamabob. If she decided to take up a fiddly and delicate form of thaumaturgical Lego-building as a hobby.
Then again, I'm not sure whether Chibiusa would be up to the task of fixing her Thingamabob if it got forcibly discorporated, although that doesn't make the 'Bob swarm suffer so much as it makes them intangible and sulky.
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BlackoutSampler
So Easily Forgotten
[jk] Give the toy to the Child Ramura in Jadeite's Care
I mean... It's childsafe right? A present from her aunties should make her happy.
I mean... It's childsafe right? A present from her aunties should make her happy.
- Location
- Bowling Green
[X] Give Naru the Toy
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[x] Give Naru the Toy
Lunaryon
Dual Aurora Wave
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Oh, yes she does, but it's because she's still in London at this point doesn't get back to Japan until Thursday, so she misses the first week
But yeah, with a LRN of 4, she needs it a lot
[x] Give Naru the Toy
I'm convinced by prowess gains.
I'm convinced by prowess gains.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I mean the toy is actually designed for someone like Shingo.
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
Shingo isn't regularly getting into fights with monsters though.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The Senshi are also children.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Never said he was.
I voted Naru.
Just the suggestion of Ramua over her own brother who is having problems....
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Ramua was a joke suggestion. Don't read too much into it.
Also, there's a sort of... OOC/IC logic thing going on here.
Learning is used both to reflect most of a character's general education, and to reflect their magical proficiency. Ami had an amazing Learning score before she found out magic existed, but when she wants to perform magical research, Learning checks tend to be involved. Minako almost certainly can do plenty of things with magic, even if most of them involve killing youma... but she effectively dropped out of school in the seventh grade to be a magical girl full time, and even then she was paying about as much attention in school as pre-quest Usagi.
Statwise, both the puzzle toy and an education are Learning boosts.
Narratively, giving Minako a magical puzzle toy doesn't necessarily solve her problem, except insofar as it stimulates her to actually use her mind (she's not stupid) on intellectual pursuits, insofar as the puzzle toy is for intellectual pursuits.
Minako doesn't punch people with her Learning stat, and isn't the person we'd be relying on for Learning actions.
Also, there's a sort of... OOC/IC logic thing going on here.
Learning is used both to reflect most of a character's general education, and to reflect their magical proficiency. Ami had an amazing Learning score before she found out magic existed, but when she wants to perform magical research, Learning checks tend to be involved. Minako almost certainly can do plenty of things with magic, even if most of them involve killing youma... but she effectively dropped out of school in the seventh grade to be a magical girl full time, and even then she was paying about as much attention in school as pre-quest Usagi.
Statwise, both the puzzle toy and an education are Learning boosts.
Narratively, giving Minako a magical puzzle toy doesn't necessarily solve her problem, except insofar as it stimulates her to actually use her mind (she's not stupid) on intellectual pursuits, insofar as the puzzle toy is for intellectual pursuits.
- Location
- madison
You joke but once everyone is past the point where it can help that might not be a bad idea.
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Give Naru the Toy
Yeah? Transformation Troubles was the arc where Usagi turned into Serenity using the Disguise Pen, and the experience was enough to possibly increase Tuning. Of course, we chose to gain Lunar Healing Burst and Sailor Teleport, which were well worth it. The other spell we could have learned was Reformation, a powerful healing spell that can also cause memory loss.
[X] Give Naru the Toy
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
[X] Give Usagi the Toy