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Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)

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We do know that Zoisite and Kunzite frequently work together. They could easily have swapped out to put the heavier weight Kunzite on Venus duty while Zoisite handled the less personal-strength needing duties in the Dark Liberatores.
 
Phht said:
Hold on, hold on. I'm reading that post, and Venus was fighting Zoisite's forces in England?! Did the Generals swap out at some point and I forgot, or was it just retconned to Kunzite later?
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There was some ambiguity about it. As of the time that the Operation Slumber Party updates were written, the intent was that it had been Kunzite, or mostly Kunzite, that had been involved for a long time.

Looking at the calendar dates on which updates dropped is instructive at times. The quest began in late September 2020, the post linked here was made in early January 2021, and Operation Slumber Party was posted starting in December 2021.

I'd chalk it up to early installment weirdness or an in-character miscommunication of some kind and not worry about it.
 
So while the update is having the final last look over by betas -

Which of the following three are people most interested in for the next side story

The Missy Mob preparing for their next battle

a mission by MCAT

or Naru helping out a clan of Yokai with a curse

I'm planning on hitting all of these relatively soon, but just intereted to see what order people are most interested in
 
It's been a while since we've seen the Missy Mob, so that's an easy number 1 for me, followed by Naru's uncursing efforts.
 
Speaking about twists, there's one thing I forgot to note before: japanese for "to twist" is "nejiru". I think quite a lot of people already mentioned the idea that saberface guy from future might be not MSTR5, but TWSTR, but I didn't see this particular piece of evidence for that, so here it is!
 
Despite my rant that the Missy Mob may have Voltron, I'm very much up for Naru decursing people...since that's a feel good thing, no matter how somber or sad it may become, because the curse is ended.

Missy mob second, MCAT third.
 
Definetly the Missy Mob.

MCAT in the middle, then Naru third. I'm actually second most interested in Naru since we've just got a solid dose of MCAT business, I just want to bookend the two most interesting options.
 
You know, I hope the Missy Mob have realized magic is real in the time since we last saw them.
 
Cubbyhb1 said:
You know, I hope the Missy Mob have realized magic is real in the time since we last saw them.
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They know they've got something:
Lunaryon said:
The girls may not know where their strange powers come from, and they may not know what their destiny is going to be, but they are going to continue pushing to help the world in the ways that only they can.
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The trouble is that "magic is real" is... a spectacularly vague statement.

The reason being, obviously, that "magic" is not a narrowly-defined term.

(If you don't believe me, try to make a useful definition of "magic" that is both useful, and, for this quest, makes the statement "magic is real" true, but does not require "secret" knowledge of how magic actually works in this setting)
 
RadiantPhoenix said:
The trouble is that "magic is real" is... a spectacularly vague statement.

The reason being, obviously, that "magic" is not a narrowly-defined term.

(If you don't believe me, try to make a useful definition of "magic" that is both useful, and, for this quest, makes the statement "magic is real" true, but does not require "secret" knowledge of how magic actually works in this setting)
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Magic: The fundamental energy of the universe that flows through all things. Limitless potential without given form. Unlike material energy, this more ephemeral type can be both created and destroyed in equal measure.
 
For the purpose of my earlier post, "magic" is defined as "the thing you need to know exists so you can make magitech"
 
FictionPack said:
Magic: The fundamental energy of the universe that flows through all things. Limitless potential without given form. Unlike material energy, this more ephemeral type can be both created and destroyed in equal measure.
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That's, uh... a lot of poetry, and nothing about what it does.

What I'm getting is "a poorly-defined form of energy that exists in everything, and violates the First Law of Thermodynamics"

So... how does someone know whether the energy they're perceiving:
  • Is this form of energy ("Magic A"), as opposed to "Magic B" or "Magic C" or "Magic D", which may or may not exist?
  • Is actually violating the First Law of Thermodynamics, as opposed to moving around in ways they haven't measured
?

Cubbyhb1 said:
For the purpose of my earlier post, "magic" is defined as "the thing you need to know exists so you can make magitech"
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Can you define "magitech" without using any words whose definitions require a definition of the word "magic" ?
 
RadiantPhoenix said:
That's, uh... a lot of poetry, and nothing about what it does.

What I'm getting is "a poorly-defined form of energy that exists in everything, and violates the First Law of Thermodynamics"

So... how does someone know whether the energy they're perceiving:
  • Is this form of energy ("Magic A"), as opposed to "Magic B" or "Magic C" or "Magic D", which may or may not exist?
  • Is actually violating the First Law of Thermodynamics, as opposed to moving around in ways they haven't measured
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Dame Judith Carroll: "Yes, I can see the problem. Let us begin with a primer starting from first principles. Chapter One is a cursory overview of Newton's Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Laws..."
 
RadiantPhoenix said:
That's, uh... a lot of poetry, and nothing about what it does.
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I tried. 🤷‍♂️
But limitless potential was the part about what it does. Anything. It can do basically anything, but it won't do anything until it's prodded or shaped or something. Part of the limitation for defining it is doing so in a way the public can accept at this stage, and that it's got a lot of subcategories that need their own seperate definitions.

And it's not life-force because that's Ki.
 
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