Yes, there is nothing wrong with being paid.
Doesn't matter, it's bad PR.
We want to do good? Go to places without hospitals, to places where people can't get treatment, to disaster areas.
Also if we'd be healing PUBLICLY, the various governments and/or rich people that benefits the most from our help would get quite a bit of flak if they were not seen rewarding, I imagine.
People have double standards, while we could do what doctors do with healing, WE ARENT DOCTORS...
So, there is the real possibility that having people pay for healing, even reasonable amounts would lead to people decrying us.
That is what I think Gnarker is concerned about. Going for the highest bidder pretty much restricts things to the ultra rich. In 1997 (5 years from now) there were 230,000 households in the US alone worth more the 5 million. Lets say each household represents 4 people they would be willing to shell out significant cash to treat, that Sailor Moon spent every weekend healing people, and she could get through a thousand people per day. At that rate it would take nine years to get through them. Throw in the rest of the world's rich as well as people large corporations and governments would be willing to pay to heal alive and that number would probably double. Obviously not all of them would want treatment simultaneously but the numbers are large enough that they could easily eat most if not all of Usagi's healing time.
It would be great for fundraising since at an average of say 500k per person that is 1 billion per weekend but it doesn't really help normal people.
Pretty much. On average, those who can most afford to pay the fair (read: astronomical, due to the bidding war) market rates for miraculous healing tend to be the ones least likely to need it. It's the ones who can't even afford regular healthcare that need a miracle the most. At least for the sort of health issues that regular medicine can treat in the first place.
Might do a charity auction.
Once people know we can heal people, once we have spent some time helping the people who can't get help otherwise.
Then it might be a good idea to start a bidding war for one or two heals, with money going to something like cancer research or childrens hospitals or something.
In 1922 ~41 million people died of things Usagi could potentially heal with the top five killers being cardiovascular diseases (12.34 million), cancers (6.01 million), respiratory diseases (3.44 million), lower respiratory infections (3.35 million), and Neonatal disorders (2.94 million).
Lets say Usagi can dedicate 16 hours per week (two full working days) to healing people. If she healed one person per minute (time to check their medical details first since unlike Dark Kingdom Coma incident she isn't necessarily healing the same thing in bulk) that comes to 960 people per week or 49,920 per year. Roughly speaking that is 0.1% of the people who absolutely need her healing (since they would have otherwise died) and probably a fraction of the people available for healing (IE: those who IRL recovered without her assistance).
In 2016 the USA had 104.2 hospital stays per 1,000 people. Expanding that the world population of 1992 gives an estimated 568 million admissions. So roughly speaking 10 times as many people are admitted to hospitals as those who actually die, although obviously not all who die even make it to hospital.
Lets say that given the numbers involved admissions and deaths are evenly distributed across all 52 weeks. That is ~800,000 dead and ~11 million hospitalized per week. If all those who died and half those who would otherwise live (~5 million) bought lottery tickets they would have roughly a 1 in 6,000 chance of winning and getting healed. If we further say each ticket cost $10 dollars and due that, plus geographical limitations*, only 10% actually bought tickets we'd be looking at making ~5.8 million per week healing people with those having bought tickets having a 1 in 600 chance of being healed.
Of course this obviously shows that the majority of people we healed (~82%) didn't need healing (since they would otherwise live) but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. You can't tell in advance who will survive and who won't and even those who would otherwise survive we would be speeding up recovery and generally improving their quality of life.
*If we implemented a healing lottery we'd have to group tickets into batches based on their geographical locations. It just isn't practical to visit each person individually since every minute spent traveling is a person not healed. This would naturally bias healing towards locations with higher densities since they would have larger batches and thus be more likely to be selected.
If we get Naru involved with Terra Healing Escalation (Assuming the Crystal Rod can handle such frequent usage) these numbers obviously double.
The reason I'm suggesting something like a lottery system is I personally believe you should almost never provide a service for free. Too many people will start seeing it as expected that you will do it for them. This entitlement then leads to many problems that can easily damage morale. Even a small, practically nominal, fee almost eliminates the problem of people becoming entitled because paying for a service puts them in an entirely different mindset.
On the one hand, I'm now starting to see why Doctor Isoda was freaking out over Usagi's "procedure". In addition to the outright mess of having 30-odd people suddenly awaken to magic with no support system, the TIMING of this is atrocious. Right now, all these "alien magic" factions are running around so blatantly that even with most magical governments running interference, the mundane public is starting to become aware. We may joke about how we want to be the first to "break the Masquade", but chances are that whichever faction ends up actually doing it first is going to end up with a lot of backlash. America is one of the big 5, so they can probably afford to say "deal with it", but if backwater Japan is the one who gets blamed for popping the balloon, it may not go so well.
On the other hand, the current political climate is making the "pureblood supremacists" of the IMO even MORE nonsensical. Both the Senshi and the TKPM are both in agreement that the general public as a whole probably shouldn't be made aware of magic just yet, and their fight against the Dark Kingdom (whose operations are now so bad they are being discussed in the U.N.) will ultimately help the public settle down and stop asking questions. It's abundantly clear that the IMO cannot stop the DK pot from boiling over by themselves, so why are they shooting themselves in the foot trying to stop the factions who can actually turn down the heat?
Realisticly we will never make a dent on diseases or injuries by healing people.
More realistic method is to train healers.
But we could visit disaster areas nf refugee camps and makde a difference in visible way to enourage people to come learn healing from us.
Now, take a moment to think about the Crystal Rod that Naru uses. A magical artifact that has a spell built into it that you just need to pour magic into and it can handle the actual casting.
Now, take a moment to think about the Crystal Rod that Naru uses. A magical artifact that has a spell built into it that you just need to pour magic into and it can handle the actual casting.
We don't have to go and heal everyone in person, we just need to find a way to create "wands/scrolls of healing", d&d style, powered by any people with awakened magic!
EDIT: and then we sell those to hospitals/governments, and once we have enough production, to private citizens too
EDIT2: or even better, we patent them but allow anyone who can to make them in exchange for a % of their earnings
well we were planning to sell magitech and we couldn't possibly be worse then the competition since we are actually interested in making non dud products.
Or we make them public domain and let anyone make them.
Seriously, i have no words to describe how uninterested i am in trying to make money of sick people.
To run a no payment business(now twice as unprofitable as non profit) we would essentially need access to taxes since that would essentially be at least as expensive as a government healthcare system.
Edit: to be clear i'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm just saying that would be us operating on a government scale at minimum.
Or we make them public domain and let anyone make them.
Seriously, i have no words to describe how uninterested i am in trying to make money of sick people.
Doesn't matter if its public domain if no one understands the designs, or have the magical fitness to make it. We could do it but we need to charge for it, considering that we could have otherwise done something else, like attacking the bad guys trying to summon their flavour of apocalypse.
Or we make them public domain and let anyone make them.
Seriously, i have no words to describe how uninterested i am in trying to make money of sick people.
Don't be naive, everyone that will ever make them will sell them at a profit. Maybe a small one, but a profit still.
It's only fair we get a share of it then.
We either get payed by the companies making them, or we get payed by government through taxes. Our time and efforts are precious, and something that's given for free is never truly appreciated.
I'm not saying we should... I don't know, do like the epi-pen company and sell at 1x the production cost, but we NEED funds, and we need them for very good reasons.
Just to start with, we need funds to establish ourselves and teach MORE people to make the healing artifacts or using healing spells in the first place.
If we don't for free, we basically have no chance of expanding quickly enough.
There's a difference between making a profit while doing a good thing, and the outrageous prices some monopolistic societies apply.
I have no problem with making money.
Magitech early on, asteroid mining later if we can figure it out (almost all the wealth in the solarsystem is off planet).
Just, not happy with making money from healing.
Us having the patent would allow us pick and choose who makes them, and under what kind of license, to avoid price gouging.
Doesn't matter if its public domain if no one understands the designs, or have the magical fitness to make it. We could do it but we need to charge for it, considering that we could have otherwise done something else, like attacking the bad guys trying to summon their flavour of apocalypse.
That depends upon how useful they are and how many uses they get. A full time healer working 40 hours per week (sadly laughably low for real life doctors) at 1 minute per person can manage 124,800 people per year. To get to ~41 million then would require 329 healers. The full 568 million hospitalizations requires 4,552 healers.
If we can only manage one per turn then we're talking decades of work but even that is world changing. ~41 million deaths over ~5.5 billion people comes to 1 death per 133 people so one wand (at 124,800 people per year) covers ~16.5 million people. Or to put it another way only 53 countries need more then one and only 32 countries need more then two. Japan is on the high end at needing eight but even that means something like 12% of deaths nation wide could be covered by a single magical item.
The only real limiting factor on how important simple and easy to use magical healing items are would be durability. If we need to replace them even every couple years that would significantly cap how many can be deployed and how many people they can heal.
Well that and the massive economic impacts this would have with the medical industries being slowly devastated. Sure doctors would be needed for the initial treatment and assessment plus for actually using the wands but their numbers would fall off a cliff. We're talking going from ~8 million to at best ~8 thousand.
That depends upon how useful they are and how many uses they get. A full time healer working 40 hours per week (sadly laughably low for real life doctors) at 1 minute per person can manage 124,800 people per year. To get to ~41 million then would require 329 healers. The full 568 million hospitalizations requires 4,552 healers.
If we can only manage one per turn then we're talking decades of work but even that is world changing. ~41 million deaths over ~5.5 billion people comes to 1 death per 133 people so one wand (at 124,800 people per year) covers ~16.5 million people. Or to put it another way only 53 countries need more then one and only 32 countries need more then two. Japan is on the high end at needing eight but even that means something like 12% of deaths nation wide could be covered by a single magical item.
The only real limiting factor on how important simple and easy to use magical healing items are would be durability. If we need to replace them even every couple years that would significantly cap how many can be deployed and how many people they can heal.
Well that and the massive economic impacts this would have with the medical industries being slowly devastated. Sure doctors would be needed for the initial treatment and assessment plus for actually using the wands but their numbers would fall off a cliff. We're talking going from ~8 million to at best ~8 thousand.
At that point, i think it is better to make people capable of making wands, rather than wands.
Like, forget wands, get Silver Millenium restoration moving, fairly sure we'll save more lives long term that way.
[X] [Room] Plan Finding Plots
-[X] Free Room Slot 1: Meeting Spot
-[X] Free Room Slot 2: Upgrade Meeting Spot to Conference Room
-[X] Buy a Tier 3 Room (Library)
-[X] Buy a Tier 1 Room (Teleport Beacon)
-[X] Buy a Tier 1 Room (Classroom T1)
-[X] Buy a Tier 1 Room (Rooftop Access)
[X] Plan Rei's Powerup, Naru's Memories
-[X] (REI) Look into hiring employees [DC ??]
-[X] Diplomacy Actions [FOUR FIVE Actions Available]:
--[X] Begin revealing magic to your family... [DC ??]
--[X] Visit the Police
--[x] Pluto
--[X] Try and find something out about the Imperial Ministry
--[X] Spend time with your Family [DC 5]
-[X] Martial Actions [Two Actions Available]:
--[X] Visit the Tendo Dojo
--[x] Try and train your transformed self [DC ??]
-[X] Stewardship Actions [Three Actions Available]:
--[X] Study your maths textbook [DC 10]
--[X] Go return to the Magic Shop to buy things
--[X] Speak with Sebastian about getting a Tutor for Stewardship
-[X] Intrigue Actions [Three Actions Available]:
--[X] Search for the Dark Kingdom's Agents [DC ??]
--[X] The Oblivion
--[X] Devise Defenses for your new Base [DC ??]
-[X] Learning Actions [Three Action Available]:
--[X] Study with Ami [DC ??]
--[X] Try and find the Magical Communities
--[X] Study Primer
-[X] PERSONAL ACTIONS:
--[X] Luna: Log artifacts 2/3 complete
--[X] Naru: Try and Remember your Past Life
--[x] Ami : Study Thunder Guardian Bracelets
--[x] Rei 1: Study Primer
--[x] Rei 2: Attempt to learn a new Sailor Mars Spell
--[X] Makoto: Examine the Thunder Guardian Bracelets
--[X] Queensguard 1: Hunt for the Oblivion
--[x] Queensguard 2: Search for members of the Moon Kingdom
--[X] Tuxedo: Help Jadeite adjust to the new world
--[X] Usagi 1 (locked): OPERATION SLUMBER PARTY
--[X] Usagi 2 (locked): Meet with the Senshi and the Precure
--[x] Usagi 3: Search for the Clock Shop Demon
--[X] Usagi 4: Go visit and further heal Akane Tendou
WEEK ONE:
d100 for Naru == 44
d100 for Makoto == 9
d100 for Rei == 47
d100 for Luna == 9
d100 for Ami == 6
d100 for Alice = 90
[One Success Naru, one Success Rei, two Successes Alice]
WEEK TWO:
a d100 for Alice = 67
a d100 for Naru = 11
a d100 for Makoto = 38
a d100 for Rei = 62
a d100 for Luna = 4
a d100 for Ami == 85
a d100 for Michiru == 10
a d100 for Haruka == 38
[One Success Makoto, One success Haruka, One success Alice, One success Ami, One success Rei]
2d8 for Rei - 5 & 4 - Learning, Intrigue
1d8 for Naru - 3 - Stewardship
1d8 for Makoto - 6 - Prowess
3d8 for Alice - 7 & 1 & 4 - Stewardship, Diplomacy, Intrigue
1d8 for Ami - 8 - Learning
1d8 for Haruka - 5 - Learning
REI == LEARNING DC 59 == 68 +
REI == INTRIGUE DC 52 == 54 +
[REI LEARNING AND INTRIGUE INCREASED]
NARU == STEWARDSHIP DC 55 == 74 +
[NARU STEWARDSHIP INCREASED]
MAKOTO == PROWESS DC 93 == 73 +
ALICE == STEWARDSHIP DC 97 == 20
ALICE == DIPLOMACY DC 52 == 13
ALICE == INTRIGUE DC 62 == 4
[NO STAT ADVANCEMENT]
AMI == LEARNING DC 90 == 45
[NO STAT ADVANCEMENT]
HARUKA == LEARNING DC 55 == 56
[HARUKA LEARNING INCREASED]
Ikuko Clue - D15 DC 12-2= DC 10 == 15
[NAT 15]
[CRITICAL SUCCESS]
[4 of 5]
Naru - Manuel of Elemental Animation - d100 DC 82 == 80 + 4 = 84
[SUCCESS]
[PROC CHANCE REVERTED to 9%]
[DC Changed to 91]
GOLEM =d100 = 59
Naru - Awakened Magic Less - D100 DC 94 == 97
[SUCCESS]
Naru - Chance Encounter - D100 DC 95 == 30
Ami - Weekly Unlock - D100 DC 85 == 47
[Failure]
[Proc Chance increased by 5%]
[DC Changed from 85 to 80]
Luna - Weekly Unlock - D100 DC 85 == 14
[Failure]
[Proc Chance increased by 5%]
[DC Changed from 85 to 80]
"Of course, if in the future you decide to call home before staying late over at Nar- at a friends, then things will be different."
Usagi nods slowly, sufficiently contrite.
"Umm... there is one more thing." Ikuko says quietly, all of the woman's surety suddenly gone. "Has... Has there been anything strange happening around you lately?" She asks. Ikuko seems... nervous, not afraid, but definitely unsure of what she is asking. "There have been some really strange things happening around me, and I just..."
"I don't know what to do about them." She says simply. "Things falling off counters when I'm the only person in the room, cabinet doors swinging open on their own. It's like there's a poltergeist in the house. Have you seen anything like that?"
Usagi is quiet for a moment, trying to figure out the best way how to explain all of this. There is a part of her that wants to just deny, deny, deny. To say that she has no idea, and that her mom shouldn't worry about it, but Ikuko is indeed the kind of person who would without a doubt worry about it.
But even if that wasn't true, the fact of the matter is that Shingo is also starting to show symptoms of magic. Avoiding talking about this isn't going to do anyone any favors, and that isn't even thinking about the Imperial Ministry and how they seem to be handling this whole situation of people starting to get magic.
When it comes down to it from that point of view, it really isn't safe for the Tsukino Family to not know about the magic that they have gotten. Slowly, Usagi sighs, before she nods. There is a strange look on her mother's face, but as Usagi scratches at the back of her head, she locks her mother with a stare just as firm as the one her mother locked her with moments ago.
"I can explain that." Usagi says, the answer drawing a blink from her mother. "But we really should get Shingo and Dad for this too."
For a long moment, Ikuko finds herself pinned beneath the gaze of the girl in front of her. All of a sudden there is a sudden trill of worry that runs down the woman's spine. Could this... Could the strange things that are happening to her be related to the strange change in her daughter?
And if so, how does her daughter know all about it? Slowly, the mother nods, taking a deep breath to try and calm herself. "I'll make sure to get us all together so that you can explain this." Ikuko says, trying her hardest to keep her voice steady, but Usagi notices the way that her voice wavers. Before Ikuko has time or space to move, Usagi snaps forward, wrapping her mom up tight in a hug.
"Don't worry." Usagi says with a quiet hum. "Things might be scary now, but everything will be alright. Different, never to go back to the way that it was before, but alright. Good even." The blue haired mother of two most definitely wasn't crying. And anyone who would say otherwise would be lying.
To be continued in 'The Family that Casts together'
2 + 13 = 15
[FAILURE]
All things considered, it really doesn't come to a surprise to Usagi or any of the Senshi that the idea of heading back to the Magic Shop and seeing what else they have for sale slipped off their radar, given the amount of studying and readying themselves for finals that the group ended up doing instead.
7 + 6 = 13
[???]
Despite the way that the Senshi most certainly didn't allow the hunt for the Dark Kingdom to slip off their radar, none of the Senshi managed to find any other hints of the Dark Kingdom beyond the Clock Shop demon that they have already managed to find.
Perhaps that means that the Senshi have found each of the different plots that Jadeite had place around the city, or perhaps it means that they missed something. For now, all the Senshi can do is keep their eyes peeled for anything that changes. And hope that they haven't missed anything important.
2 + 15 = 17
[FAILURE?]
Sitting back in her room, Usagi idly activates her communicator, pulling back to check to see if the one strange communicator symbol that had appeared on Pluto was there again. Time and again Usagi had checked, but it was never there.
Only... today it was. Quickly, Usagi jabs at the signal before it has a chance to disappear, and there is a moment where the communicator rings, before there is a click and there is an answer. 「H'llo?」 A voice answers, but this voice is nothing like the one that answered before, instead sounding... well, saying that the voice sounded childish is like saying that water is wet.
「Hello there.」 Usagi says cheerfully, glad to have someone answer, even if for some reason there is a child on pluto. 「My name is Sailor Moon, I was hop-」
「Ah!」 The girl practically shouts, 「Sorry!」 The young voice says. 「Puu says I'm not supposed to talk to you yet. Bye!」
...Well, it was an answer? Even if it is one that simply raised more questions than answers.
As the meeting between Senshi and their new sponsor comes to an End, there is a brief moment where Usagi steps off to one side, approaching Sebastian, Alice's Butler. "Mister Sebastian," Usagi begins, drawing the eye of the elder gentleman.
"Yes, Miss Moon?" He asks, a soft smile on his face.
"I know that you work for Alice, and not for me... but I was hoping that you might know someone who could help me with this issue?"
"And that issue would be?" The man asks, before Usagi lets loose a small, sardonic chuckle at her own expense.
"I'm... not that... good at math." Usagi says, "And I know that handling the finances of the Company is what I've hired Alice for, but I'd like to be able to understand the stuff that she'll be telling me."
Sebastian looks at the girl for a long moment, before he slowly nods. "You know, it's fascinating. Up until you said that, I couldn't see how old you are. Some part of me had just assumed that you were in your twenties. Yet instead, you are just about Miss Alice's age. Do you have a way to get up to Oogai Town?" He asks.
Usagi is quiet for a moment, before she nods. "I might need directions, or a picture of the place, but I can get just about anywhere."
"Very well then." Reaching into his pocket, Sebastian first pulls out a photo of a massive tower, topped in a wide green clover. "This is Clover tower, in Oogai town." Taking hold of the photo, Usagi stares at it for a long moment, before nodding. Then, the man pulls out a thin business card.
"Miss Mana is a friend of Miss Alice's," Sebastian says simply, "Top of her class and Student Council President at her school. I am certain that she will be able to assist in your school work if you speak with her and organize something between the two of you. Just let her know that Miss Alice sent you."
[RECIEVED MANA AIDA'S CONTACT INFORMATION]
[PERSONAL ACTION ADDED: "CONTACT MANA AIDA"]
9 + 15 = 24
24/ 3 = 8
If there is one thing that Rei has discovered about her transformation into Sailor Mars that she deeply appreciates, even more than the strength and the speed and the energy flowing beneath her skin...
It would be the way that no one seems to be able to figure out how old the Senshi are. As such, tossing on a professional looking blouse over her Senshi uniform makes it so that everyone seems to see her as a fully grown adult. Which means that with a little help and instruction from Sebastian, and Rei soon finds herself with a number of interviews to hold to try and find individuals to hire for their new company.
[Eight Employees gained]
9 + 13 = 22
[TEN OVER DC]
[CRITICAL SUCCESS]
3 + 16 = 19
[SUCCESS]
With finals coming up next week, Usagi finds herself meeting with Ami at the Shrine every day in order to work on her math and her grades, in order to try and get ahead of the tests that are coming down the line, and within not even a day, the rest of the Senshi soon enough dribble in, each and every one needing to ready themselves for the tests to come.
[THREE SUCCESSES SAVED FOR FINALS]
To be continued in 'Finals'
56 + 83 + 78 = 217/200
SCORE REACHED
Over the course of yet another week, Luna finally manages to organize the last of the pile of artifacts and junk that Artemis has been gathering up over the years that he has been around that Luna was still frozen and hidden away.
Much of the pile is near exactly the junk that Luna had thought it was, but there are some gems.
Oh... Yes. There are some gems.
Literally, and figuratively. There are quite a number of semi-precious stones that Artemis has collected... somehow. There is a part of Luna that really wants to ask where the cat managed to get some of these, but at the same time, Luna isn't sure that she wants to know.
But, with little else to do with them, Luna passes them on to the Senshi's new sponsor, in order to make sure that they are sold off in order to work on supporting the Senshi. Most importantly, that they are sold off legally.
And they are, making the Crystal Millennium a tidy little sum of cash.
[+17 Funds]
That is just the start of everything that Luna had found, some of it weird, some of it useless, and one thing... Oh... Luna can't stop grinning as she thinks of the final thing that she managed to find among everything that Artemis found.
To start off the two stranger things that Luna finds, there is a stone tablet, and written on it are three different languages. High Lunar, Elysian, and a final language that Luna doesn't recognize. It's an absolutely cool piece to find, were it not for two major problems. The first is that much of it is unreadable, due to how old and eroded the stone, which is only made worse by the fact that the stone has been shattered in three pieces, due to Artemis having dropped something heavy on it. Good job Artemis.
[Gained Shattered Linguistic Tablet]
The other really odd thing that Artemis apparently managed to find is said heavy thing that he dropped on the tablet. It's a mirror. Which doesn't sound that odd when just said like that, but what is very odd about the mirror is the fact that it doesn't reflect. Period. On the other side of the mirror is an entirely different location. Not the hidden room beneath the Crown Arcade, but some other room, with high sprawling ceilings, and stained glass windows. Luna has never seen a place like this before. Still, the room seems to be empty, so that is something that can be looked into at some point in the future.
[Gained Non-Reflective Mirror?]
Then there are the useless things. Which let's be honest, that isn't a fair description of the items, but they aren't... They aren't as magical as the other things that Artemis has gathered over the years. The first of the two is an absolutely beautiful violin. Where Artemis got it, how he got, Luna doesn't have a clue, but at the very least it's clear that the cat does know what he found, because unlike so much of what has been thrown in here, he's carefully set the violin and it's case to the side.
[Gained a Violin?]
The other of the less magical items that Artemis has gathered is some kind of... To be honest, Luna has no idea what she is looking at. It's a box, the size of a suitcase, and covered in a number of different switches and buttons. However... Whenever she flips one of the switches, all that happens is that the box opens, and a little arm pops out to flick the switch back to the way that it was before. Luna ends up spending nearly an hour fighting with the machine and trying to understand what it does before the girl finally gives up, backing away from the box and leaving it be.
[Gained... Something?]
And finally... Oh, FINALLY, there is the last artifact that Luna finds in the pile of magical tools and random other things that Artemis has gathered.
The Moon Rod. The personal spell casting focus of Princess Serenity, and the symbol of her station, as the Princess of the Moon.
There really isn't anything that needs to be said about the artifact in front of the cat. This is it. The thing that she had been hoping for so long to be among the things in the pile. This is the symbol of the Princess of the Moon, and... eh? What is this?
There is a note, wrapped around the handle of the rod. Slipping the papyrus parchment off the handle, Luna carefully unrolls it, blinking in surprise as there is High Lunar written across the page.
「When Usagi is ready, take the Moon Rod to Mare Serenitatis, restore the castle, and reawaken the moon.」
Luna is quiet as she stares at the page. The parchment is ancient, yellowed with age and fragile in her hands, but the ink is still wet. That... that shouldn't be possible. Nor should it be possible for anyone to know Usagi's identity. Luna has a great number of questions, and not a single answer to be found of yet.
Still... There is only one thing that can be done. The obvious thing. Give Usagi her weapon, her birthright... and let her know that there is something for her to do on the moon.
[Gained Moon Rod!]
[Moon Rod Automatically Equipped to Usagi!]
[Gained Special Action! Raise the Moon Castle]
81 + 14 = 95
[??? Success ???]
At the same time that a cat is struggling to understand the strange message that has been left behind on paper impossibly old, with ink impossibly fresh, a young girl sits quietly in her home, a pen idly twirling around her fingers.
An idea has been had, but Naru has the distinct feeling that this idea is a terrible one. One that could very well end absolutely horridly, but at the same time, part of the reason that she thinks it could go so wrong is the exact same reason why she thinks that it won't.
All it would take is a single sentence.
'Moon Prism Power, Transform me into my past life.'
Then, finally, Naru would know what all the strange things happening to her are. She would no longer have to wonder what the strange dreams that itch at the back of her head that she cannot understand mean. There is an answer to everything that she needs to know, right at her fingertips...
But there is a part of the girl that is terrified to know. There is also a part of the girl that is terrified that doing this would transform her into some kind of monster, something that consumes magic and life without thought or reason, and that doing this could lead to her friends having to fight her.
Then again, if she does turn into something that eats magic... then wouldn't she eat the transformation that turned her into the monster, which would turn her back?
Naru doesn't know. But she needs to make a decision.
[ ][Naru] Use the Pen and transform into her past life
[ ][Naru] No. It's too dangerous to transform into a past life like that.
8 + 6 = 14
[One Degree of Success]
Spending a few hours over the week at the Senshi's new Base, Usagi makes her way through the different rooms and everything that is being constructed, looking around to see what kinds of potential ideas for how to make the building safer occur to the girl.
While there isn't a lot that occurs right off the back, there is one thing that the girl does find herself thinking about. The Tokyo Police have captured a Youma. The girl isn't sure how they are keeping it contained, but really... there has to be some kind of magic that would prevent Youma from using their own magics...
Usagi isn't sure how that would be developed, but if a means of preventing shape shifting could be done... then that would make keeping Youma contained so much easier. Some kind of... uniquely designed magical cells. That... might just work.
[Magic Cells Added to Research Options]
29
[No successes?]
Unlike the Queensguard's successes at finally finding something related to the Oblivion, the two members of the Outer Senshi didn't...
Well, they are pretty sure that what they found is not related to the Moon Kingdom, but strange false wall that opens up into a dimensional pocket, a hidden space... It's certainly something. But lacking the time to explore the strange location when they find it, they pass the information on to Sailor Moon. After all, if this isn't related to the Oblivion, then it's probably related to that Imperial Ministry that Usagi is trying to look into.
All the Queensguard can do for now is hope that things go well for their princess.
94
[GREATER SUCCESS]
So... good news? Jadeite seems to be adjusting to this new world and this new era far better than Endymion could have expected, at least until he talked to the man and remembered the one thing that has always been true.
Jadeite is a bit of an odd egg, never really fitting in with the rest of the Shintennou, or the courts of the Earth Kingdom, due to his absolutely wacky beliefs.
That the peasants and the serfs were inherently equal to the nobility, and that there was no reason that any ordinary person, no matter the walk of life could with time and training learn to rule, and lead.
That there was no need for Godesses or Kings. After all, it was that exact political leaning that had him banished down to the Earth Kingdom to serve as Endymion's personal guard. Something to get him out of the way and far away from the courts where his words could have weight and meaning. Yet, here in this time and this place, the ideas that once had him mocked behind his back and the excepted norm of the world.
9 + 22 = 31
Sunday, May 10th, 1992
Having gotten the assistance of Alice to organize and better set up the information to give to the Police, Sailor Moon heads down to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
Things get a little interesting, when Usagi discovers that the two men in the cells are not Danbura or Yosuke...
Strange things have been happening to Usagi's family every since Shingo ended up in the hospital, and now Usagi has decided to finally come...
Okay, no. She's still terrified of revealing that she is Sailor Moon, but telling her family about magic, awakening her Dad, and helping them learn a little about what they are now capable of. That... That she can do.
To be continued in 'The Family that Casts Together...'
Following a lead given to Usagi by the Queensguard, Sailor Moon and Naru find themselves in a hidden space, one brimming with magic and the strangest people that Usagi has ever met.
To be continued in 'Imperial Impositions'
7 + 16 = 23
[SUCCESS]
6 + 15 = 21
[SUCCESS]
Friday, May 15th, 1992
Heading down to the Tendo Dojo to Heal Akane Tendo wasn't supposed to be a big deal, nor was it supposed to have any issues arise. However... when a man turned into a panda and attacked Usagi...
That was when things got weird.
To be continued in 'Panda Problems'
All things considered, the meeting between the Sailor Senshi, the Pretty Cure, and the Southern Pretty Cure was supposed to be a time to check up with each of the different groups and see how things were going. It was not supposed to be a time for Youma, Zakenna, and Uzaina to work together.
To be continued in 'Monster Mash'
8 + 6 = 14
[SUCCESS]
47
SUCCESS
Monday, May 18th, 1992
Having heard a rumor, Usagi and Makoto make their way down town, to check on someplace where rumor has it you can forgot the horrible things of your life... for a price.
Seems that Haruka and Michiru also have heard the rumors, as they too arrive at the strange shop that turns out to have connections with the Oblivion.
To be continued in 'To forget is not to forgive'
4 + 16 = 20
[SUCCESS]
46
[SUCCESS
6 + 16 = 22
[SUCCESS]
67 + 10 = 77
[SUCCESS]
Tuesday, May 19th, 1992
In an attempt to unwind after the first round of Finals, Usagi goes up to Rei's shrine to hang out, and do... something. To her slight annoyance, she ends up working on more work, this time the Primer, but helping Rei with her spells after, and sparing with Makoto makes it all worth it.
To be continued in 'Secretarial Spellcasting'
29 + 6 + 15 = 50
[TEN OVER DC]
[CRITICAL SUCCESS]
Thursday, May 21st, 1992
Following Endymion's advice, the Senshi quickly find the location of the Clock Shop Youma, however... it seems that they aren't the only ones to have found the shop, nor are they the only ones to be less than pleased with it's location.
Bit odd for people naming themselves after the desert to show up in a city full of flowers, but whatever.
To be continued in 'The City of Flowers'
40 + 9 = 49
82
59 + 22 = 81
7 + 22 + 16 = 45
Friday, May 22nd, 1992
The Day has come. Operation Slumber party. Time to go and meet Sailor V in the flesh.
To be continued in 'Operation: Slumberparty'
Ikuko Clue - D15 DC 12-4= DC 8 == 10
Success
5 of 5 Clues
Naru - Manuel of Elemental Animation - d100 + 4 DC 91 == 22
[FAILURE]
[Proc Chance Increased by 9%]
[DC changed from 91 to 82]
Naru - Awakened Magic Less - D100 DC 94 == 27
[Failure]
[PROC chance increased by 6%]
[DC changed from 94 to 88]
Naru - Chance Encounter - D100 DC 95 == 99
Ami - Weekly Unlock - D100 DC 80 == 31
[Failure]
[Proc Chance increased by 5%]
[DC Changed from 80 to 75]
Luna - Weekly Unlock - D100 DC 80 == 75
[Failure]
[Proc Chance increased by 5%]
[DC changed from 80 to 75]
We still don't know if the girl in question is the daughter to Endymion or someone else (though I am more accepting of the idea of it being daughter of Usagi).
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