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

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Simon_Jester said:
3) If we can get an ID on World's Smartest Youma based on Sailor Jupiter's description.

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I wonder if Jadeite will think the World's Smartest Youma incident is funny.
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Definitely talk to him about the World's Smartest Youma. Actually, if she's part of the underground rebellion, it would be a good idea to set up a contact.

Actually, we do need to set up a contact with the Youma Rebellion. There aren't enough of them to fight the others straight out, but there are probably enough to act as spies and saboteurs. It would be great if we could get fed the locations of targets, since we tend to spend more actions looking for plots than taking them down, and we're running out of targets.

All we need are a few photos of active operation sites, enough of a location to warn the local government (if we decide to take that step), and our trusty Senshi Teleport spell...

Also, now that we have IC confirmation that the goal of Beryl and her minions is indeed the complete extinction of humanity, I say we go to the UN and work with the world governments on an anti-Youma taskforce that we can get a charter from so we don't have to worry about pesky little things like "vigilante laws" or "borders" or "national sovereignty." Just lump all of Beryl's operations under our jurisdiction.

It should be (relatively) easy to get the world leaders to agree on this, since most world leaders are A) human, and B) want to live longer than the few months all remaining humans have to live if Beryl isn't stopped. Our literally-superhuman Diplomacy score should carry through on the rest.
 
You want to go to the UN for help? Are we dangerously short on hot air and self-serving idiots? We'd have more luck convincing the IMO to back us.
 
Simon_Jester said:
So the youma, possibly unlike Pandora's yokai, are obligate thaumovores, and more to the point obligate feeders on life energy

Pandora's yokai don't seem to have the same constraints, because I'm pretty sure that the IMO would otherwise have 'successfully' starved all the Japanese yokai populations to death at this rate by keeping them on reservations away from humans.
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Yokai are largely designed to be gatherers, originally there to support Pandora's absurdly overclocked metabolism. They would be terrible at that job if they had a high resting state energy consumption rate: None of it would ever make it back to mom. But consumption is still a very important part of them and seems helpful for them to grow in power, evolve their forms, or to recover from overclocking themselves in combat. And their consumption is often... messier and more brutal than what Youma perform.

The ugly end of the Inuyasha setting was ugly indeed. A sizable town could become an abattoir for one mid level demon, much less a jailbroken gribbly like Naraku.

Youma are, presumably, more of a weapon from primordial conception. To burn through a civilization, driven by their hunger to attack almost without thought, and then presumably burn themselves out. A lack of sustainability is a feature, not a bug.

Still, they aren't running so hot that this is a problem. Their life energy requirements have to be pretty reasonable, at least spread out over so many humans, if they can still tithe the majority of their harvest to Metallia. Their industrialized gleaning process is brilliant. Take that lovecraftian entity out of the equation and they probably wouldn't even be noticed at current population levels.
 
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...If Naru is the one siphoning the power away from the reserves, that may be good for Team "Doesn't Want the Earth Destroyed", but not necessarily good for Naru in the long term. Up until this point, we had been operating under the assumption that her hunger increases only with the creation of new monsters, so if she abstains from that, then her hunger can be kept consistent and sustainable. But if we're learning that her hunger increases every time she casts a spell, that changes the equation a bit. Particularly when she thinks she's fine with her tea supplements and the well finally runs dry and HUNGER HUNGER DRAIN ANYTHING IN SIGHT.

...Granted, her current siphoning seems to be increasing in miniscule increments, but it's something we should be aware of.
 
The Shapelin Gym was an excellent idea. Giving the people a place to work out, and receiving life energy in return for the service. Not enough to cause issues, but a good source. And since the people working out get stronger, that means more life energy gained over time. Spread that out over a country, and you could feed a lot of Youma, reducing obesity in the process. (Honestly I wouldn't mind going to such a place so long as it was safe.)

That would also make Naru a fine queen of Youma to start off with. No more tribute to Beryl and Metallica, instead it feeds Naru, queen of snek.
 
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Hmmm, this certainly suggests that there is some kind of connection between Naru/Pandora and Metallia. And I again think about how they seem oddly similar in behavior (eat energy, spawn minions to collect energy). But now... I start to wonder if we might have had it backwards a while ago and Pandora is a breakaway piece of Metallia. Metallia apparently has at least one bit down on Earth for Beryl to shove Life Energy into, so who's saying that there couldn't have been another piece that broke off ages ago, gained self-awareness and became Pandora?

That said, we also have evidence from Pandora's long active career that it is entirely possible for Pandora/Naru to remain active and using her powers for centuries without turning completely into a lovecraftian monster (Snake parts notwithstanding), so we shouldn't worry too much about her going berserk.
 
Ternasta said:
You want to go to the UN for help? Are we dangerously short on hot air and self-serving idiots? We'd have more luck convincing the IMO to back us.
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Yeah, the best bet is to approach America and get them to back us. Russia is in the middle of a domestic crisis, and China is not yet powerful enough to really oppose America outside of maybe their near abroad. America in 1992 ought to have sufficient diplomatic pull to basically get us accepted everywhere outside of Iraq, Iran, China, and North Korea.

Honestly China is likely to be the most difficult issue, as they have a huge population to serve as life energy resources, and they are likely to be rather uncooperative with a bunch of Japanese based vigilantes.
 
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Ternasta said:
You want to go to the UN for help? Are we dangerously short on hot air and self-serving idiots? We'd have more luck convincing the IMO to back us.
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Themarineguy said:
Considering the UN...
It might be better to court the individual countries instead of the organization as a whole while hoping it works out...
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I did both say "relatively" and cited our superhuman charisma. At the very least, the UN is already talking about the problem, even if they don't have all the information yet, and we can use the UN to get in touch with a bunch of world leaders at once. And the Japanese government can get us in the door and taken seriously, or the British government, for that matter...

But we're going to be basically busting in to Youma operations all over the world and shutting them down in the next few months, and the UN can give us a piece of paper that says we're at least theoretically allowed to do that, as a fig-leaf so the different world governments aren't politically required to get huffy over foreign nationals they can't stop coming into their country to fight the cult trying to destroy all life on earth. It's a win-win.
 
Indeed, we could just be seeing the result of some individual or group of Youma deciding to start thieving, and them proceeding to gradually grow in strength as they feed on extra life energy. Which could still be useful as it might lead to more rebellious Youma and Dark Kingdom unrest. But one would assume that Beryl or her underlings would be able to spot such a thing, as they presumably know that having the thing they are stockpiling also be food and power for their troops means that it needs protections against stealing. Unless of course it is one of the other Dark Generals doing the stealing, who might be high up enough to suppress any information about them being who's doing it....

Hopefully what we are seeing isn't Metallia metabolizing the Life Energy piecemeal instead of all at once.

Edit: that said, Naru is still a strong candidate as well, with the timing being what it is.
 
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Razzocnor said:
Indeed, we could just be seeing the result of some individual or group of Youma deciding to start thieving, and them proceeding to gradually grow in strength as they feed on extra life energy. Which could still be useful as it might lead to more rebellious Youma and Dark Kingdom unrest. But one would assume that Beryl or her underlings would be able to spot such a thing, as they presumably know that having the thing they are stockpiling also be food and power for their troops means that it needs protections against stealing. Unless of course it is one of the other Dark Generals doing the stealing, who might be high up enough to suppress any information about them being who's doing it....

Hopefully what we are seeing isn't Metallia metabolizing the Life Energy piecemeal instead of all at once.
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Though things get complicated if this becomes a villain-versus-villain situation. Even more if the other power capitalizes on our miniature war with the Dark Kingdom and takes the whole of their store during the climax.

The Dark Kingdom is hobbled by the fact that they aren't allowed to use the bulk of their stockpiled power. Not until doomsday or their last desperate strike. Others would have no such limitation.
 
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Lunaryon said:
Of course... all of these theories rely on it actually being Naru who is responsible for this, and not something or someone else.
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You're quite right- for instance, it's entirely possible that one of the other dark generals is doing more or less the same thing Jadeite is, only he worked out a different sabotage plan.

But the timing, if Jadeite means "local time" as in "Tokyo time," is quite consistent with Naru's observed activities, and we know that Naru stole a big slug of energy from Beryl in some way, shape, or form two weeks ago. So it's as plausible a theory as any... although it's inherently no more plausible than "Naru is directly tied to Beryl," which a lot of us were believing and which turned out to be dead wrong.
 
Yeah the timing means it pretty much has to be some schoolkid. We have the sunrise to 7:15am session (IE: from waking up until leaving for school), a quick session around 12-12:30 (IE: lunch break), and an afternoon sessions between 4pm and 6pm (IE: after-school).

...a thought suddenly just occurred to me. We know another redhead who awoke strange new powers (and further back so more in line with the timeline mentioned). They also happen to be exactly the kind of workaholic who gets up (or rather is woken up) at sunrise to train all day long.

Ranma!
 
UberJJK said:
Yeah the timing means it pretty much has to be some schoolkid. We have the sunrise to 7:15am session (IE: from waking up until leaving for school), a quick session around 12-12:30 (IE: lunch break), and an afternoon sessions between 4pm and 6pm (IE: after-school).

...a thought suddenly just occurred to me. We know another redhead who awoke strange new powers (and further back so more in line with the timeline mentioned). They also happen to be exactly the kind of workaholic who gets up (or rather is woken up) at sunrise to train all day long.

Ranma!
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Ooooooooooooooooooh. I like that one.

In fact, Rei said that she was able to see a minimum of three curses in his curse knot. One came from the Spring of Drowned Girl, and one makes his hair grow out of control unless its tied back with a dragon whisker, but I don't recall the thread figuring out what the third one was. I think—I am going off memory here, and I'm not actually super familiar with Ranma, so if there's another curse in his canon then I wouldn't know about it.

Still, that would leave it an open question as to how such a connection was established. That's probably the biggest hole we'd be working with there.
 
Zendrelax said:
Ooooooooooooooooooh. I like that one.

In fact, Rei said that she was able to see a minimum of three curses in his curse knot. One came from the Spring of Drowned Girl, and one makes his hair grow out of control unless its tied back with a dragon whisker, but I don't recall the thread figuring out what the third one was. I think—I am going off memory here, and I'm not actually super familiar with Ranma, so if there's another curse in his canon then I wouldn't know about it.

Still, that would leave it an open question as to how such a connection was established. That's probably the biggest hole we'd be working with there.
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Not actually canon-confirmed, but I have seen an opinion that Neko-Ken is sufficiently Curse-like, and in one of the fanfics I have seen even comes with a complementary mystical bond to a malicious cat demon spirit.

They came to blows.
 
Hm, given Moon's admirable performance in the exams, one hopes that the rest of the school administration will not accuse her of cheating. Haruna-sensei probably would not, and as the presumed invigilator, her word should be enough in that case. It will be tedious if Moon needs to take another set of exams to prove that she did not cheat.
 
On the one hand, I can definitely understand why that would be... given that the first update took place on... Huh. Technically April 1st, but turn 1 began on April 5th, and it's only May 14th.

It's been a month and two weeks since the quest started.

It just took like, nearly 6 months to get there.

But notably, Usagi was getting better even before Miss Haruna went into a coma, so I am going to try and avoid something that would be for the most part just padding
 
Themarineguy said:
Which is interesting in that it makes Mamoru an even bigger odd one out compared to the sailor scouts, since not only is he male, and that he and his abilities seem to be much more tailored to stealth and hidden operative work relative to the tanks that are the Senshi. But on top of that, the 'senshi' of TWO CELESTIAL BODIES!!
...Unless it was confirmed somewhere, I suspect that the sun, as we are aware of, is unaccounted for...
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Nah, the evidence is pretty firm: Why Is There No Sailor Sun in the Sailor Moon Universe?

I've mentioned before that I have a theory that Star Seeds can combine and split. As part of it, I propose that the Sun and Earth's Star Seeds were combined.
 
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