Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
As part of my contractually obligatory straight man responsibilities:Pssh.
Just get our barrier ferret to slap a barrier up and have a talk with Raising Heart to figure out how to slap a nonlethal modifier onto it, and we're crystal.
As I recall, a Sailor Star is a weapon powerful enough, when used correctly, to make Galaxia literally get out of her chair and actually start fighting back.
I am fairly sure that it is well beyond the limits of what Yuuno can put a barrier around, and well beyond the limits of what Raising Heart was designed to make 'safe.'
Spart117MC
Amateur human
- Location
- Cali
I dunno, there's always a possibility that the IMO's anti-Senshi task force exists solely to take on the Senshi and main attack force has been assembled with the expectation that they will be sufficient to defeat MCAT without further assistance. There's also no guarantee that the personnel earmarked for Senshi sealing duty might have otherwise had a place in the main attack force.
It may be the case that those mages are powerful casters, able to use all manner of spells. It's also possible that they're sealing specialists, experts in their specific field but mediocre combatants at best and expecting them to be able to significantly contribute in a battle would be like expecting a dentist to perform heart surgery.
I can think of a few reasons why the IMO would be wary of going after the Crystal Millennium building.
Yokai and rogue mages are known factors that the Ministry have a decent understanding of their magical capabilities. In fact, these are the exact kinds of folks that the IMO exists to 'handle.' They know what they can expect with MCAT, however the same isn't true of the Senshi.
They are after all the warriors that managed to defeat the protections used by their untouchable Empty Faces. On top of that the last time anyone on the IMO side broke into the building the Senshi, somehow, ended up with full body recordings of the perpetrators.
Who knows what other exotic magics they have in their employ and may have cast upon their home base? Trying to tie them down is going to be hard enough already, why toss in another unknown variable when an attack on more mundane target would do the job of drawing them out?
Ideally Samui and co would also work out a duress code, however much that'd be worth against enemies that can manipulate people's memories.
We wouldn't want to show up expecting a battlefield only to find out that the IMO have quietly subdued MCAT with Empty Faces and faked a distress call in order to draw the Senshi to a captured base that's been remade into a ritual site.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Aladdin and Encanto…what other Disney Films will show up in this world as having been part of history or as an influence on current events? Frozen? Pirates of the Caribbean? Splash? Hocus Pocus? Halloween Town? Hercules? Mulan? Peter Pan? Alice in Wonderland? Actually they did establish that Hercules and Aladdin took place in overlapping canon. And Gargoyles really lines up nicely too-
…wait. WAIT! Oh no. OH NO! Oh yes. But oh no.
Please. Lunaryon PLEASE!
Is Usagi Kingdom Hearts?
…wait. WAIT! Oh no. OH NO! Oh yes. But oh no.
Please. Lunaryon PLEASE!
Is Usagi Kingdom Hearts?
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
Looking over the list:
- Halloween Town, Neverland, and Wonderland have the makings and mechanics of fairy realms.
- Hocus Pocus takes place on Halloween 1993, and involves witches who were locked away for centuries, so it's technically viable.
- Pandora confirmed that the Greek Gods and Chiron were real, so Hercules is possible (although there's a chance that the Greek legends are a bit more accurate than the PG Disney movie).
- The only quibble with Pirates of the Caribbean is confirming that Calypso was below the power threshold to have survived the Fade, as I'm pretty sure that those movies take place after the Fade.
- Mulan is associated with the Northern Wei's military campaigns against the nomadic Rouran (around 386–534 AD), and the supernatural elements are minor enough to not have stood out against the backdrop of history.
- Gargoyles doesn't start until 1994, when David Xanatos reconstructs Castle Wyvern in New York City.
- I think Frozen's the only one that absolutely can't fit without a crowbar, as the Norway-adjacent kingdom of Arendelle would have to be formally introduced into the narrative.
- ...Calling Splash a Disney movie feels like a stretch (released by Touchstone Pictures, a Disney subsidiary), but I suspect that Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure will be the more defining canon on mermaids.
Ekzentric Lohner
I miss Wildstar...
Neverland and Wonderland weren't Disney inventions. Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is from 1865 and J. M. Berrie's works introducing the character of Peter Pan and the island of Neverland were from the turn of the 20th century.
In most cases, including something not from ancient myth as real in the quest means depriving the setting of the media that inspired it. Aki-chan turning out to be real despite being recognizable from in-setting fiction is a remarkable thing that implies an interesting story of uncaught masquerade breaches and/or someone adapting a biography from magical Japan into "fiction" for public Japan.
Not every work of fiction in our world that can be fit into the quest setting needs to be. Leave some of it as in-quest fiction so the characters can enjoy it too.
I think seeing Lunaryon's take on the ancient myths would be more interesting than Disney's derivative works.
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
This was more intended as a thought exercise in what movies are theoretically compatible with the setting, not necessarily advocating for their inclusion. I agree that this quest could very well end up feeling "cramped" if we tried to incorporate all of Disney canon.
Ariesthegolden
He who knows not how to ADHD, but is learning
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- He/Him
[X][Trap] Let MCAT know
[X][Partycrashing] Trust Your Allies
[X][Attitude] Spring
[X][Partycrashing] Trust Your Allies
[X][Attitude] Spring
I guess it kind of depends on when Calypso was bound? Like, her bindings could have put her below the Fade power threshold?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
We could work it in, I think, if Calypso was sealed before the Fade (say, 1550 or earlier, if I recall the timeline correctly). I know of no reason to think that can't have been the case in the movie canon, and we know that if a supernatural entity was powerful enough to be hit by the Fade, but for whatever reason didn't have all their powers on their person right then at the moment the Fade was happening, then they might fly under its radar. We know this worked for the Egyptian gods, plus also [spoilers].
Arendelle could be a minor principality that was peaceably annexed by one of the surrounding countries some time between (whenever Frozen happened) and 1992, but you're not wrong.
Vote closed
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
If I'm calculating correctly:
Trust 25 vs Never 16
Evade 22 vs Spring 20
Trust 25 vs Never 16
Evade 22 vs Spring 20
Sorry ibgar The Vote is Already closed..
I don't recall that, and it doesn't make a lot of sense since Kagome doesn't share her time travel plans with us so Usagi's guess is no better than anyone else's
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
It was mentioned, but then, this chapter ends in a "we've got some time to talk," so it's reasonable to suppose that some discussion may be taking place off-camera here.
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
We have decided that it's Samui's call on whether or not to include the Senshi, but if it comes down to a Diplomacy roll, we probably have improved our chances by approaching with an attitude of "we are willing to be assigned in a way that minimizes our risk" (Evade) rather than "naw, we can tank it" (Ignore/Spring).
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
To play devil's advocate to that suggestion:
1) Remember that all the direct information MCAT has about what's coming came via Unnati to the Senshi to MCAT. If the Senshi express confidence in their own ability to deal with the trap directly, it might make Samui feel more confident in calling on their aid, because "surely they'd know they can handle it, right?"
2) Since we've voted for Usagi to prioritize evading the trap over disrupting Onogoro harder, she may be less predisposed to argue in the event that Samui says "stay away."
Like, we specifically voted to leave the decision up to Samui. What would a Diplomacy roll to 'persuade' her one way or the other even mean in that context?
1) Remember that all the direct information MCAT has about what's coming came via Unnati to the Senshi to MCAT. If the Senshi express confidence in their own ability to deal with the trap directly, it might make Samui feel more confident in calling on their aid, because "surely they'd know they can handle it, right?"
2) Since we've voted for Usagi to prioritize evading the trap over disrupting Onogoro harder, she may be less predisposed to argue in the event that Samui says "stay away."
Like, we specifically voted to leave the decision up to Samui. What would a Diplomacy roll to 'persuade' her one way or the other even mean in that context?
- Location
- Moncton New Brunswick
Huh I wonder if the Disney afternoon cartoon block was around in 97 or one Saturday morning animation block on abc was around in 97 I'm thinking minako and or Makoto would be fan of pepperann not sure about who be a fan of gargoyles though. Though I'm not sure who the senshi would have a crush on more Goliath with his voice or bad boy Brooklyn though if we actually make it or the quest maker is around by the time we get to the 2000's having Kim Possible as an ally would be nice. One we'd have global justice as backup not to mention a possible financial backer for or businesses but we'd also have Ron Stoppable mystic monkey power as an edge. The only downside we may have to fight Kim's rouges gallery as a result and possibly Warhawk and warmonga as well and given those two have an invasion force of robots would ba problem themselves alone have heightened strength and other attributes compared to a normal human, so I don't know if we are par to them as a senshi, although shego being in a relationship with one of the senshi possibly no pun intended with Naru or our other allies when we get to that point would be fun to read.
- Location
- Louisville, KY
First off it's '92 right now not '97, Second The Disney Afternoon ran from September 10th 1990 to August 29th 1997.
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- San Ramon, CA
…You may have a point. I may just be trying to rationalize a situation where we get our "MCAT self-determination" cake and eat it too, but that's not necessarily fair to all actors involved. I'll try to stand back and accept "Que sera, sera."
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
We get to have our cake and eat it too if Samui decides to ask the Senshi for help anyway. As well she might, under the circumstances!
Otherwise, probably not.
The trick is, it's not really under our control how Samui reacts to information we provide her, so I can see why the vote is what it is, even if it is potentially made irrelevant by an NPC's reaction.