Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[WHMZakeri]

I thought it was implied there would be subsequent papers after the "First one" when Icedfairy answered that the first paper would be easy to write since there's not a whole lot of knowledge about the demons to go around. You'd probably get another round of 26 Weeks, with a higher Research value needed to finish Patch's second assignment.

Yes, i read this game often. I just suck at planning, and have nothing to contribute.

[Iced Fairy]

For some reason, I recall the initial time limit for the Patchy research being 26 weeks.

Since we've done that already, does the game end after week 26, or does she drop a new assignment on us?

New assignement, though I very much doubt you'll take so long as to need to worry about it.

Then again you've surprised me many times already.

[mad]

Build a ranch

Convert 10 gems to iron and 10 gems into wood. That should cover the new building and get us ready to build tower.

research fire mastery

Mai and Eskarina help out

Hibachi takes 400 money to wheel and deal

Maya and Glenda go on tour

Kirala practices gem cutting

Ruby hunts for gems

Ferra tries to make a cool thing

Shouldn't the building prices be lower?

[Iced Fairy]

Shouldn't the building prices be lower?

Right sorry.  Forgot to grab a calc and do that.  Should be right now.

[Kasu]

Build a ranch

Convert 10 gems to iron and 10 gems into wood. That should cover the new building and get us ready to build tower.

research fire mastery

Mai and Eskarina help out

Hibachi takes 400 money to wheel and deal

Maya and Glenda go on tour

Kirala practices gem cutting

Ruby hunts for gems

Ferra tries to make a cool thing

Shouldn't the building prices be lower?

I agree with all of this.

Also, I think we should cast Demonic Summoning on Ferra again and get her to create tools for Heather (because of the income bonuses) and Elspeth (because we might get an extra special action).

Also, if we end up finishing Fire Mastery and we have a bit of research left over, pour the remnants into Razorvine.

[Iced Fairy]

Current Suggestion Set: Madness Chaser's post.

Okay there's a little more then that.

Build:

Build a ranch

Spells:

Convert 10 gems to iron and 10 gems into wood.
(or
Demonic Summoning and some number of gems to iron and gems to wood. )

Research:
fire mastery + Razorvine

1+2 Mai and Eskarina research

3: Hibachi takes 400 money to wheel and deal

4+5: Maya and Glenda go on tour

6: Kirala practices gem cutting

7: Ruby hunts for gems

8: Ferra tries to make a cool thing

8+9 could be Ferra making tools, but you'd need to sell some materials to get the money.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's send Kirala to visit some other gem cutter, and see if she can wheedle some advice out of her.

[Kasu]

On second thought, cancel the tool forging for this week so we can make some more money.

Also, what are the details of Suwako's Blessing?

[Iced Fairy]

Also, what are the details of Suwako's Blessing?

Your harvests have been increased for a little while, granting you more income.  It's possible that could aid special actions related to growing things, but you've maximized your profits pretty well earlier.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 24 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "I'm surprised a ranch takes this much stuff..."

You build a Ranch.  Heather Level Up.
Heather   Farmgirl   2   +60 income, +30 to all other income sources

Heather: "Oh great.  Now we can farm Cows and goats.  And Nightmares."

Mai: "Those sell?"

Research Phase

Learned Fire Mastery.

Yuki: "That's 3 of 5."

Learned Razorvine.  Defense +10

Yuki: "Pretty easy really.  This will help keep people off our fences without making them look ugly."

Wood Mastery can now be researched.

Yuki: "I wonder what unlocks Earth Mastery?"

Eskarina: "Hey, you can't break the 4th wall yet!"

Spells:

Yuki: "Lots of boring spells..."

10 gems to iron 10 gems to wood.


1+2) Mai and Eskarina - Research

Mai: "I DON'T need a shark with lasers."

Eskarina: "Why not?"

84, 14
Mai and Eskarina contribute 84 research.  Somehow....

3) Hibachi -  take 400 money to wheel and deal

Hibachi: "I made the money back and got 50 wood.  Without crashing the market this time!"

4+5) Maya and Glenda - tour

Maya: "It's wonderful having a competent dancer working with me.

Glenda: "You do great too... for a soprano.

53, 103
$563 earned.

6) Kirala - seach for gem cutting secrets.

Kirala: "The minings the holdup right now, but I can get more time for art!

85
Income boost +20

7: Ruby hunts for gems

Ruby: "I was going to the underground, when the aliens kidnapped me..."

Failure.  You gained 34 elirium, but that doesn't really help you.

8: Ferra tries to make a cool thing

Ferra: "So... I kinda created a stargate.[/b]

Yuki: "A what?"

Ferra: "Er, your portal magic won't cost money or time, just mana."

Yuki: "I sense a but there."

Ferra: "I spent a bit of iron on deathtraps."

71
Cost 50 iron to build (deathtraps for) a massive gate.  You can now access strange far off places with ease.  If you ever want to.

Yuki watched as her drink shuddered.  It had been doing so in a rather steadily disturbing fashion.

Apparently this week was going to be a problem week.  It's like fate was out to get her.  Or at least trying.

When the rattling started disturbing her dishware she finally gave in and looked out the window.

There, outside, was a massive lizard with odd ridge scales.  It towered over the mansion, larger then any dragon she'd seen.  Fortunately it was still on the other side of the moat.

She had just started to move to deal with the problem when a beam of light swept out from the moat and removed the creatures leg at the knee.  The monsters scream was painful even through the glass, and the shockwave raised by it's fall tested the earthquake preparedness Alouette had been muttering about on and off.

Yuki saw some devils going to clean up the mess and turned back to her work.  "Hm... Didn't live up to the hype.  Still I'm surprised those sharks survived in the moat.  I was sure they were saltwater only."

Event:Giant Lizard.  Not a problem.  Gained 7 notoriety and way too much 'zilla steak.
5 stress from this weeks work.
Sakaki is restless.
Joan is restless
"Shotglass" is seized by an idea.  She will be taking one of your special actions.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 25

Current Stats

Wood	834	Gems	162
Iron	523	Money	2446
Research	140	Mana	150
Defense	355	Notoriety	202
Stress	6%	Morale	157/180

Income - 732 + 38 + 200*

*Suwako's blessing

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	37	20
Gems	146	87
Iron	42	31

Build - You can build the following structures:

Tower	850 wood, 425 iron, 42 gems	Mana +50
Lab	425 wood, 170 iron	Raises Eskarina's level
Office	425 wood	Raises Elle's level
Art for the Mansion	255 gems	Raises Alouette's level
Wine Cellar	425 wood, 85 iron, 7 gems	Raises Elminia's level
Mansion	818 wood, 813 iron	Allows all structures to be built
Spa	900 wood	Raises Helepolis' level
Defense Tower	42 wood, 42 iron, 4 gems, 25 mana	+10 defense

Research - You can research the following things.  Spells in italics are halfway finished.
Improved Defense Tower:
Wood Mastery:
Break 4th Wall:

Spells - You may cast the following spells:
Name Devil - 100 mana - All done!
Call Rain - 20 mana - Gets you rain.
Control Weather - 60 mana - Name a weather type, any weather type...
Create Money - 1 mana - Creates $2
Create Wood - 5 mana - Creates 1 wood
Create Iron - 10 mana - Creates 1 iron
Create Gems - 20 mana - Creates 1 gem
Transmute Gem to Wood - 5 mana 1 gem - Creates 40 wood
Transmute Gem to Iron- 10 mana 1 gem - Creates 20 iron
Charm Devil - 10 mana - Removes negative mental effects from a devil.  Costs morale.
Cure Devil - 30 mana - Heals a Devil of any physical condition. Removing Death costs 5 gems more.
Dig - 30 mana - Decreases building costs by 10 wood and iron.  Usable once per structure.
Create Foundation - 100 mana - Increase building discount by 5%
Enhance Devil - 50 mana - Doubles Devils effectiveness at the cost of a week of exhaustion.
Devil Trigger - 200 mana - Doubles Devils effectiveness
Demonic Summoning - 50 mana - +1 special action.  Activated devils can act again.
Empower Gem - 1 gem 100 mana - Gives you 50 mana to use later.
Money Tree - 1 gem, 5 mana - Ads 5 income
Planar Portal - 10 gems 50 mana or 15 gems 100 mana - Creates a portal to a location inside/outside of Makai.

Special Actions - Maximum 7 - Limit one per devil/magician
Stress Relief - Helepolis.  Removes d10+5 stress.
Grind levels - Ruby.  Helps (slowly but safely) level Ruby and gets random drops.
Dance Party - Requires Dancer, Bartender.  Devils do not become bored at the end of the week.   Morale may be gained, and stress may be gained or lost depending on RNG.  This party costs d4 * 4d10 in cash.  Butler can decrease the multiplier.
Forge Tool - Ferra.  Once per devil spend $1000 and 5 gems to gain a level.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[mad]

Why did the tower's price go up?

Convert 20 gems to wood and 5 gems to iron.

What are the new spells to research?

Research the improved defense tower. If there are any points left, pour them into any spell that is NOT Break 4th wall, If Break 4th wall is the only available spell, pour the points into it.

Build the tower.

Demonic summoning on Ferra

She forges better tools for Elspeth and Heather

Ruby searches for gems

Mai and Eskarina aid in research.

Hibachi take 400 money to wheel and deal

Helepolis massages.

Joan trains.

[Iced Fairy]

Why did the tower's price go up?

Sigh.  I just don't know.  I swear all I did was delete the Ranch.  I'll try again.

Only new spell availible is Wood Mastery.

[Hello Purvis]

7: Ruby hunts for gems

Ruby: "I was going to the underground, when the aliens kidnapped me..."

Failure.  You gained 34 elirium, but that doesn't really help you.

Oh my god, I lost my shit.

Let's have Hibachi check around the market, and see if there's someone who would be interested in it. And also if  it has a use.

Also, let's totally have Ruby go through that gate. With Joan.

[Serela]

Build tower, research Wood Mastery, have Mai and Eskarina help out with said research.

edit:oh this is arleady said derp

[Kasu]

Convert 20 gems to wood and 5 gems to iron.

Research the improved defense tower.

Build the tower.

Demonic summoning on Ferra

She forges better tools for Elspeth and Heather

Mai and Eskarina aid in research.

Hibachi take 400 money to wheel and deal

Helepolis massages.

All of this is good.

Although if we finish with the Defense Tower, pour the rest into Wood Mastery.

Also, let's totally have Ruby go through that gate. With Joan.

Seconded.

[Suwako Moriya]

I question building the Tower right now, as I don't know that we need +50 Mana so badly that we're willing to dump all of our wood on it. I think I'd rather converserve wood by building something small (a defense tower, maybe the office) or building nothing at all, and saving up for a couple of turns until we have the iron to get our Mansion. I am very curious to see what it unlocks.

EDIT: The 50 Mana from the tower would be good for +80 Wood per turn after Create and Transmute with Gems...eh. We're not doing a whole lot with our mana these days anyway, so this wouldn't be as much of a bonus as it could be if we were still naming devils.

I think I would rather build the office, as we can recover 400 wood in 2 turns with Sakaki alone, and that should be enough time to get the iron for the Mansion.

[Hello Purvis]

We should share our mastery of The Metal with our singer.

Surely she can make good use of it to Lock Out The Wolves or classchange to Holy Diver.

[Iced Fairy]

We should share our mastery of The Metal with our singer.

Surely she can make good use of it to Lock Out The Wolves or classchange to Holy Diver.

I'm very sorry Purvis, but you learned metal mastery.  Not Metal Mastery!

I couldn't make the letters be on fire so bold will have to do.

[Hello Purvis]

I'm very sorry Purvis, but you learned metal mastery.  Not Metal Mastery!

I couldn't make the letters be on fire so bold will have to do.

wtf false advertising

[Iced Fairy]

Current Suggestions

Build:
Tower (3)
(Office - 1)

Research:
Improved Defense Tower -> Wood Mastery

Cast:
Demonic summoning on Ferra
Gems to wood and iron

Special:
1+2) Ferra crafts for Elspeth + Heather

3) Hibachi finds a use for Elirium

4+5) Mai and Eskarina aid in research.

6+7) Ruby + Joan enter the Stargate

8)Helepolis massages.

9 - "Shotglass" surprises you. (Can't change)

Ruby, Joan and Hibachi have had suggestions subsumed by later suggestions.  They can be rezed by request.

As beofre if you build the tower you get the mana straight up.

[Hello Purvis]

Serela, apply your mathemagics to this. Presuming we keep converting gems and such, how much is that extra mana from the tower going to help? About the only thing we need it for is converting gems to other materials. And with gems as our bottleneck, especially given how so many things need them, how much would it slow us down on certain things?

[Serela]

That depends highly on how newly unlocked buildings from the mansion will cost. With the gems we're producing, they're no longer a bottleneck at all unless there's a lot of high gem cost structures after Mansion as well; mana is our bottleneck. Well, being limited to one build per turn is our real bottleneck at least for the moment, but, you know.

I'd say it's safe to assume there are going to be high cost things from the mansion unlock, so the Tower at the least isn't not going to be helpful. We won't be able to build the mansion next turn or anything with a tower build now, but we definitely won't miss out on a building phase with gem transmutation magic, so it's fine. It's probably better, too, since having the extra mana earlier means we get start using it earlier too for higher production rates.

[Hello Purvis]

Good man.

Tower it is!

[Iced Fairy]

Apologies on not updating.  Midterms and HW are making me sad, so I'm not up for doing this properly.  Tomorrow will be a better day.  Or if not I'll pretend it's a better day and fight on anyway.

[Pesco]

Take your time. And it gives us more time to do mana economics.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 25 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "Why do towers draw in more magic?"

Mai: "There's a book explaining that."

Sakaki: "Nevermind."

You build a Tower.  +50 mana, +20 notoriety and a cool view.

Research Phase

Learned Improved Defense Towers.  Towers now add 25 defense.  Earth Mastery Unlocked.

Yuki: "That took forever!"

Spells:

Yuki: "Time to get Ferra again."

Ferra-2: "Is this overtime or does it count as a new week?"

Yuki: "We don't pay you."

Cast summon devil on Ferra.  Turned 20 gems to wood and 5 to iron.

Special Actions

1+2)Ferra - make tools for Elspeth + Heather

Ferra: "A +5 vorpal plowshare for you Heather."

Heather: "Thanks, but where'd you get it?"

Ferra: "Ruby grabbed the sword I reforged from some place called Toril.  Said they had too many of the them."

Ferra: "And Elspeth, here's your... chip thing.  That you asked for."

Elsepeth: "Thank you."

Heather	Farmgirl	2	+60 income, +50 to all other income sources
Elspeth	Butler	1	+1 Special Action, Support: Can make one Special action AUTO SUCCEED.

3+4) Mai and Eskarina - Research

Eskarina: "I told you the lasers would be useful!"

Mai: "Fine."

74, 24
Mai and Eskarina contribute 60 research.  Somehow....

5) Hibachi -  Sell Elirium

Marie: "I'm afraid we found her like this in the market square.  She should be fine, just a little incoherent for a few days."

Hibachi: "F'tagn!  :*"

Yuki: "Damn.  I wonder what happened."

17
Failure!  Events have been set in motion....

6) "Shotglass": "Surprise"

"Shotglass": "I've rediscovered a cocktail!  It's the original Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster."

Yuki: "Let's try it!"

97
Events are in motion.

7+8)Joan and Ruby enter the Stargate.

11, (Ruby)
Events are in motion!

9) Helepolis: Massage

15 stress relieved after the event.

Yuki awoke with a pounding headache.  "Urgh.  Man that drink was like having your head smashed in by a gold brick with a lemon slice wrapped around it."

Fortunately Yuki was skilled enough at casting spells 'in an emergancy,' say while drunk, to toss a quick sobriety charm.

That was when she realized she was naked.  In someone elses bed.  And that someone else was still there.

Moving slowly she lifted the covers to reveal "Shotglass'" naked form.

As sobriety began to make it's way into panic a voice at her side said, "Don't worry Mistress.  Considering the potency of the drink neither of you were concious enough to do more then paw at each other.  And even that wasn't very successful."

Yuki turned to find Elspeth there.  "Please tell me you have clothes."

Elspeth nodded.  "Indeed."  Yuki's elation dissapeared when Elspeth held up the black leather of her superhero outfit.  "Also there's a call for you on the red line.  From Lady Shinki."

***

Soon Yuki found herself sinking to new lows of humiliation.  Apparently the item Elspeth had asked for was the motherboard to a massive "fox computer."  Which meant now Shiki was looking down on the two in Mai's ridiculous outfits from a giant screen.

"You've been doing well for yourselves." She said casually.  "In fact there's some talk of you being almost the local nobility in the area."

Both Yuki and Mai twitched at that, they could just imagine Yumeko sharpening her knives in the background.  "Uh, that's surely an exageration."

"So humble," Shinki said with a smile.  "Well I hope you're still taking care of all my little devils.  I felt some weird things from two of them, but I figure that one of those magical residue things right?"

Yuki looked over at Mai who shrugged and returned the questioning gaze.  Could Shinki really sense what happened to ALL of her creations?  Finally Yuki stated, "We haven't felt anything, but we'll have Marie take a look to see that they're all still healthy."

"That's good to hear.  Well anyway, I won't take up any more of your time.  I'll let you go back to whatever you two were doing."  She winked, "Though I hope you let the devils join in too sometimes."

Yuki flushed deep crimson as the moniter went off.  "She has to know about the secret identity thing right?  I mean how else does she have the channel right?"

Mai shrugged.  "So Joan and Ruby are in trouble?"

Yuki frowned.  "Maybe...."

Elspeth nodded.  "I have supplies ready for your journey."

***

"Chevron 6 locked!"

Yuki glared at the imposing structure.  "What was Ferra thinking?"

Mai just shrugged.

The gate opened.

***

Yuki dodged a bolt from the Staff weilding guardsman and set him afire.  There was a return bolt, then an explosion as the rest of Yuki's spell kicked in.

"You done with those fishmen?" she yelled back to Mai.

Mai snapped her fingers, then nodded as the monsters shattered into a million pieces.

Suddenly a great weight slammed into Yuki from above.  She tensed as a knife pressed against her neck.  Then a familiar voice said, "Oh!  The Black Cat!"

The knife and weight disappeared.  Sitting up Yuki found Ruby standing there in torn clothes, with a startling array of weapons strapped on.  "Sorry about that.  My friend and I got trapped here."

"Apparently there are two alien groups sharing the space.  One of them tried to kidnap me a bit a go and we're gunning for revenge after messing with my sister Hibachi.  The others are trying to turn Joan into some sorta guard drone, though fortunately that can't work since we're bonded to Mistress Yuki."

The little devil smiled.  "So I'm running a rescue plan.  Could you help?"

"No problem," said Mai with a smile."

-

Yuki twitched then sighed and relaxed as Helepolis rubbed her shoulders.  "How did you get so many bruises?"  The devil asked.

"Bad research day," Yuki lied.

In the hallway she could hear Apophis calling to her companions, "Come on you two, why do you keep glaring at me like that!?  It's disturbing.  Especially coming from you Joan!"

"Very bad," Yuki muttered.

Event:It was a loooooong day.  Involving aliens.  With an Egyptian fetish.  Served by Fishmen.
Gained 14 stress from the morning shock, 4 stress from combat.  Joan was hurt but recovers quickly.
This weeks work caused 4 stress.
Joan is wounded, but has fast recovery
Sakaki is restless.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 26

Current Stats

Wood	584	Gems	125
Iron	298	Money	1548
Research	140	Mana	200
Defense	355	Notoriety	222
Stress	13%	Morale	157/180

Income - 864 + 38

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	37	20
Gems	146	87
Iron	42	31

Build - You can build the following structures:

Lab	425 wood, 170 iron	Raises Eskarina's level
Office	425 wood	Raises Elle's level
Art for the Mansion	255 gems	Raises Alouette's level
Wine Cellar	425 wood, 85 iron, 7 gems	Raises Elminia's level
Mansion	818 wood, 813 iron	Allows all structures to be built
Spa	900 wood	Raises Helepolis' level
Defense Tower	42 wood, 42 iron, 4 gems, 25 mana	+25 defense

Research - You can research the following things.  Spells in italics are halfway finished.
Earth Mastery:
Wood Mastery:
Break 4th Wall:

Spells - You may cast the following spells:
Name Devil - 100 mana - All done!
Call Rain - 20 mana - Gets you rain.
Control Weather - 60 mana - Name a weather type, any weather type...
Create Money - 1 mana - Creates $2
Create Wood - 5 mana - Creates 1 wood
Create Iron - 10 mana - Creates 1 iron
Create Gems - 20 mana - Creates 1 gem
Transmute Gem to Wood - 5 mana 1 gem - Creates 40 wood
Transmute Gem to Iron- 10 mana 1 gem - Creates 20 iron
Charm Devil - 10 mana - Removes negative mental effects from a devil.  Costs morale.
Cure Devil - 30 mana - Heals a Devil of any physical condition. Removing Death costs 5 gems more.
Dig - 30 mana - Decreases building costs by 10 wood and iron.  Usable once per structure.
Create Foundation - 100 mana - Increase building discount by 5%
Enhance Devil - 50 mana - Doubles Devils effectiveness at the cost of a week of exhaustion.
Devil Trigger - 200 mana - Doubles Devils effectiveness
Demonic Summoning - 50 mana - +1 special action.  Activated devils can act again.
Empower Gem - 1 gem 100 mana - Gives you 50 mana to use later.
Money Tree - 1 gem, 5 mana - Ads 5 income
Planar Portal - 10 gems 50 mana or 15 gems 100 mana - Creates a portal to a location inside/outside of Makai.

Special Actions - Maximum 7 - Limit one per devil/magician
Stress Relief - Helepolis.  Removes d10+5 stress.
Grind levels - Ruby.  Helps (slowly but safely) level Ruby and gets random drops.
Dance Party - Requires Dancer, Bartender.  Devils do not become bored at the end of the week.   Morale may be gained, and stress may be gained or lost depending on RNG.  This party costs d4 * 4d10 in cash.  Butler can decrease the multiplier.
Forge Tool - Ferra.  Once per devil spend $1000 and 5 gems to gain a level.
Support - Elmina.  By using her action one special action automatically succeeds.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[Serela]

Obvstuff:Build Wine Cellar, 20 Gems into Iron, research Wood Mastery (or Earth if people want it more), have Mai and Eskarina help with the research.

I think we can build the mansion next turn.

[Kilgamayan]

You think we can get the Mansion the turn after building something that takes 425 Wood?