Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[Serela]

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

We can get 800 wood in one turn from Gems to Wood, without factoring in the 200 we produce normally :3

Edit:Okay, I bothered to look at the numbers, yes we can build the Mansion next turn.

[Kilgamayan]

800? 25 Mana = 40 Wood, so 200 Mana = 320 Wood, not 800 Wood.

[Serela]

800? 25 Mana = 40 Wood, so 200 Mana = 320 Wood, not 800 Wood.

*5 mana

=D

[Kilgamayan]

Oh yeah, I guess we could use the gems we already have. >_> I was thinking in terms of 20 to create the gem followed by 5 to transmute it.

Here's hoping nothing costs an egregious amount of gems after we build it, then.

[mad]

We can't build the mansion next turn after building this without changing some gems into wood

Ruby seeks gems

Hibachi trains

Elmina supports Hibachi

Ferra forges something for Hibachi.

Maria trains

Joan trains

[Serela]

We make more then twice as many gems per turn as we can actually transmute, anyway. And we'll be able to see exactly what remaining buildings would cost gems, anyway :3

[Hello Purvis]

As for Marie's training; let's have her offer free physicals for the week.

Sakaki has been abusing portals to hit up that forest a lot; let's have her give us an assessment of the place. It's capacity, wildlife of interest, Lewis and Clark that mammajamma.

Let's have Ruby seek gems through the Stargate!

[Kasu]

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.

As for Marie's training; let's have her offer free physicals for the week.

Sakaki has been abusing portals to hit up that forest a lot; let's have her give us an assessment of the place. It's capacity, wildlife of interest, Lewis and Clark that mammajamma.

Let's have Ruby seek gems through the Stargate!

These.  Also, I think we should research Earth Mastery first.

[Iced Fairy]

Current Suggestions:

Build
Wine Cellar
(Remember Build order comes first!)

Cast:
20 Gems into Iron

Research:
Research Earth Mastery (or Wood)

Special:
1+2)Have Mai and Eskarina help with the research.
3) Ruby - Loot distant worlds.
4) Hibachi trains
5) Sakaki - Explore
6) Elspeth - Support Hibachi
7) Marie - practice on the uninsured
8 ) Craft an item for Hibachi

9) Joan trains

One over.

[Kasu]

I think we should drop Joan's action for this week.

[MysTeariousYukari]

> For the extra actions, lets drop the Joan training.
> I suggest we drop another action, if needed, so we can use the Butlers Auto-Succeed on the "attempt to level up" that we try with Hibachi and the others.
Iced - [Actually that's already in there.  MC just put Elminia instead of Elspeth and I foolishly copypasted the error.  Fixing.]
> Wine cellar. Butler with that extra level can make things auto-succeed, another level now seems even more worthwhile

[Iced Fairy]

Week 25 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "Strange.  I would swear that this wall is hollow."

Yuki: "Ahahaha.  You must be imagining things."

You build a Wine Cellar.  Elspeth level up.

Elspeth

Butler

3

+2 Special Actions, Support

Elspeth: "Whenever you need assistance I'm ready Mistress Yuki."

Mai: "We need a bigger cave...."
Research Phase

Earth Mastery: 170

Yuki: "Ugh.  Again...."

Spells:

Yuki: "To set spell to autocast press...."

Turned 20 gems to iron.

Special Actions

1+2) Mai and Eskarina - Research

Eskarina: "...."

Mai: "...."

Yuki: "I don't think they work well together."

29, 34
Mai and Eskarina contribute 30 research.  Somehow....

3) Ruby - Loot distant worlds

Ruby: "So do you think Corsica diamonds would work?"

Gained 24 gems, 40xp, and $92

4+5) Hibachi trains with support

Hibachi: "Hm...  This is difficult."

Elspeth: "Perhaps this would help, Hibachi."

Hibachi: "Oh, yeah!  Thanks!"

Success Changed to Critical Success.  Hibachi gained a level for $500!

6) Sakaki - Explore the woods

Sakaki: "It's a nice place, if you get past the giant spiders."

21
Failure.  No gain.  But Sakaki isn't bored anymore.

7) Marie - practice on the uninsured

Marie: "Aha!  So that's how it works!  Ahahahaha!"

Eskarina: "Hey!  Playing god is my job!"

101
Marie leveled for $700

Marie

Doctor

3

Prevents minor injuries.  Can heal other injuries (including death) over time.

8 ) Ferra - Craft an item for Hibachi

Ferra: "Behold!  The pen of incomprehensible contract formation!"

Hibachi: "Sweet.  I promise to use it's powers for awesome."

Hibachi

Merchant

4

20% bonus to market related activities

Yuki simply glared at the group before her.  She didn't need to yell.  Cassia was doing a fine job for her.  "How could you have been so stupid!  You know these things cost money!  And you knew we were going to be spending $1000 at the end of the week!  Now we're $460 in the red and only because Ruby brought some cash in from whoever she killed!"

Hibachi twitched as Cassia glared straight at her.  "You should especially know better Hibachi!  Household finances should not be running on credit!  You've shown what damage that can do personally!"

Hibachi's head wings drooped.  "Sorry about that.  I didn't realize the housing budget was going to be so big this week."

Yuki sighed.  "That's true.  Okay Cassia, this looks like partially my fault as well.  I only told Alouette that."

Cassia looked over at her.  "Eh?  Told Alouette what?"

"Patchouli's going to be picking up the papers personally, along with the rest of her mansion apparently," Yuki sighed.  "So I set aside some funds for showing off to them.  Still..."  Yuki resumed glaring at Hibachi and Marie, "you shouldn't be depending on next weeks income to make up for this weeks debts.  I know Elle gave you the figures."

Yuki glanced down at the numbers like the might suddenly change, but they didn't.  Oh well, they had plenty of other assets.  If nothing else they could sell stuff to get into the black easily.  No reason to worry too much.

"What's done is done.  You two go help Alouette and Elspeth with the preparations.  We can fix this easily at least," the two bowed apologetically then headed out.

"Um, Miss Yuki, does that mean Master Patchouli will be arriving soon?" Elle asked quietly.

Yuki blinked then frowned again.  She didn't like being reminded Elle was effectively on loan, but that was something Yuki would have to deal with eventually.  Neither Yuki or Mai was Elle's true master, so Elle would always be subservient to Patchouli's desires first.

"Hey, Elle.  Would you like to be under my command instead of Patchouli's?" Yuki asked.

Elle winced.  "Please don't ask me loyalty questions Miss Yuki.  It will only hurt someone."  She looked away.  "Still while I like Master Patchouli, I wouldn't be hurt if she gave you my contract."

Yuki smiled.  "Fair enough."

***

The party was a grand mess.

Yuki and Mai both found themselves instantly disliking Remilia.  Fortunately her maid seemed to be able to keep her in line.

Unfortunately Lady Shinki dropped by suddenly, and there was a sudden excess of head maids in the mansion.  Fortunately Sakuya seemed to realize she was off duty, and Alouette wasn't stupid enough to start something.  Even more fortunately, Shiki had brought food as a gift, so the extra guests didn't blow the budget even further.

Patchouli was almost a relief to deal with after that, though Yuki still occationally felt jealous when Elle got wide eyed around her real master.  Then again it must be hard to be the familiar of a distant mage when all your sisters were working for your boss.  Yuki made a note to keep a friendly eye on the office devil.

The early research seemed to actually bring a smile to Patchouli's face, and she eagerly accepted another year of Elle's time for another research book.

And by then the Mansion should be all finished.

Event:Patchy picked up her work and extended her lease of Elle.  Also you went into debt.
Hosting cost $353.  The devils were all kept busy by your guests.  +5 morale.
This weeks work caused 6 stress.
Being in debt causes 9 stress.
Being in debt causes you to lose 20 morale

[Iced Fairy]

Week 27

Current Stats

Wood	339	Gems	162
Iron	713	Money	-11
Research	140	Mana	200
Defense	355	Notoriety	222
Stress	28%	Morale	142/180

Income - 864 + 38

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	42	27
Gems	130	95
Iron	50	35

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
Underground Caves	425 iron, 255 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: 140
Wood Mastery:
Break 4th Wall:
Research for Patchouli:

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

[Kilgamayan]

If Hibachi and Marie both leveled up (Hibachi twice, apparently), why are they both still Level 1? :V

[Iced Fairy]

If Hibachi and Marie both leveled up (Hibachi twice, apparently), why are they both still Level 1? :V

Because they learned how to hide their power level!

Or typos.

[Serela]

We should have 713 Iron instead of 513.

5 Gems to Iron, 15 Gems to Wood... yup. It's enough. Wait, we can get a lot more wood per turn then 800. I'm silly. More like 1600. Spend all the remaining mana on Gems to Wood, we'll need it next turn anyway.

Build Mansion. Keep researching Earth Mastery, and get Mai and Eskarina to help again.

How much time till the new Patchouli Research is due?

[mad]

Helepolis massages

Ruby seeks riches

Maya and Glenda go on tour

Bartender holds a special event to raise money

Elminia supports Ruby

I think for our next focus, we should get more money because these levels are expensive and can be used to increase gem production.

Can demonic summoning be used to have Elminia support herself?

[Iced Fairy]

We should have 713 Iron instead of 513.

Ah yes, sorry.

Build Mansion.

Build then cast.  I mentioned this last time.   :X

How much time till the new Patchouli Research is due?

52 weeks.  If you actually go that long I will be very surprised.

Can demonic summoning be used to have Elminia support herself?

Yes though it will look very weird.

[Kasu]

5 Gems to Iron, 15 Gems to Wood... yup. It's enough. Wait, we can get a lot more wood per turn then 800. I'm silly. More like 1600. Spend all the remaining mana on Gems to Wood, we'll need it next turn anyway.

Helepolis massages

Ruby seeks riches

Maya and Glenda go on tour

Bartender holds a special event to raise money

Elminia supports Ruby

All of the above is good, although I think we should get Patchy's research done.

[Serela]

All of the above is good, although I think we should get Patchy's research done.

We should finish the game way before the next research is due, according to what IcedFairy said. So it's pretty ignorable.

[Hello Purvis]

I wouldn't ignore it, but let's finish out dem masteries, first.

[Iced Fairy]

Current Suggestions

Market:
None

Build:
Current suggestion Mansion, but again, since casting comes after building you require more wood.

Spells:
5 Gems to Iron, 20 Gems to Wood.

Research:
Earth Mastery

Specials:
1+2) Mai Eskarina help with research (maybe this time the RNG won't screw you...)

3) Helepolis massages

4) Ruby seeks riches

5+6) Maya and Glenda go on tour

7) Bartender holds a special event to raise money

Elminia supports Ruby - Special Note: Ruby's actions are handled oddly.  A "success" for Ruby can thus be very odd.  But it will do something.

One special action free, build order is short resources.

[Hello Purvis]

Have the cook (Chou? Too laggy to look it up) hold an event at the restaurant to draw in more customers; allow her free rein of any unoccupied succubus for this purpose.

[Iced Fairy]

9) Chou holds an event to draw in customers.

Still waiting for alternate build order, or market orders.  Remember the action order is Buy - Build - Research - Cast - Special -Event.  Even working off a 50% down payment you don't have enough wood to start the mansion.

[Hello Purvis]

No building for this week. We'll just save the mansion upgrayyd for next.

And, really, I don't think we need market actions. Hopefully the demon actions will deal with the cash flow troubles.

[Kilgamayan]

I don't see anything I'd want to build this turn. Suggest changing Mansion to Nothing.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 25 Results

Research Phase

Earth Mastery: 390

Yuki: "Why'd it have to be the five element system and not the 4 element system?"

Spells:

Yuki: "I still don't get why it has to be gems...."

Turned 5 gems to iron, 20 gems to wood.

Special Actions

1+2) Mai and Eskarina - Research

Eskarina: "You missed a constant."

Mai: "Oh, right."

Yuki: "Better then last time I suppose."

33, 61
Mai and Eskarina contribute 80 research.  Somehow....

3) Elspeth - Support Ruby.

Elspeth: "I think the kill sat should help."

Yuki: "The what now?"

4) Ruby - Killing things, taking their stuff

Marie: "What happened!?

Ruby: "So I'd been pinned by the dragon when a beam of light came down from the sky...."

Gained $1000, Ruby was moderately wounded.
Side note: I've never seen 5 1's in a row before on a d20.  Be glad Elspeth helped...

5+6) Maya and Glenda - tour

Maya: "Um... We've apparently set the bar too high."

Glenda: "We're being blacklisted...."

44, 13
Gained $107 from street performances.

7) Bartender - Holds special event

Bartender: "Blind taste tests are always fun.  Especially for making 'tasters' weep."

64
Gained $128 and some lulz.

8 )Chou - Cooking spree

Chou: "I've got some new pastery ideas...."

96
Rousing success.  Gained $288.

9)Helepolis - Massage

Helepolis: "And the best part is this is free."

Yuki: "Mrgph.  Whatever, just keep rubbing."

10 stress relieved)

Yuki looked up from her tea set.  "Another guest?"

Alouette nodded.  "This one was nice enough to give us a card."

Yuki looked it over.  "Rikako Asakura. Genius."  That caused her to raise an eyebrow.  "Did she say what she was here for?"

"She said she wanted to study our moat Miss Yuki.  She's willing to pay board as well."

Yuki blinked, then smiled.  "We can do that.  Invite her in."

A few moments later the woman entered.  She seemed, well not sane, but level headed and reasonably safe.

"So, you want to study what in our moat exactly?" Yuki asked.

"I'm interested in your laser sharks," Rikako replied.

Yuki didn't really know what to say there so she drank another cup of tea.  "I thought they'd finally died out."

Rikako adjusted her glasses.  "Apparently they've moved to deeper waters."

"Why does my moat have deeper waters," Yuki muttered.

Relizing that line of thought would get her nowhere she sighed and rang a bell.  Alouette quickly responded.  "Alouette, please get our guest a room next to Eskarina."

She turned back to the youkai scientist.  "Eskarina is responsible for that craime against, er, genetic alteration.  Feel free to ask her questions in her spare time."

Rikako nodded.  "I'll do my best to keep my research out of your way."

---

Yuki yawned as she left the lab.  She really shouldn't do all nighters, but she'd finally gotten a breakthrough in creating the Earth Mastery crystal and she didn't want to lose it.

As she entered the hallway Rikako exited on of the rooms.  "Ah, Good morning," the scientist said.

"Hrm... More goodnight for me.  I've gotta crash," Yuki replied.

Rikako smiled.  "I hope your research profited from your efforts then."

"Yeah, it did thanks."  Yuki yawned again as the visitor waved and moved into the lab.

The magician was halfway down the hallway when she realized that Rikako actually had the room across the way.  The scientist had just come out of Eskarina's room.

Yuki shook her head.  She didn't want to know.  She was going to sleep and forget about it.

Event:Rikako visited.
Gained temp +30 research.
This weeks work caused 0 stress.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 28

Current Stats

Wood	1139	Gems	137
Iron	913	Money	1422
Research	140+30	Mana	200
Defense	355	Notoriety	222
Stress	18%	Morale	142/180

Income - 864 + 38

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	42	27
Gems	130	95
Iron	50	35

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 iron, 255 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: 390
Wood Mastery:
Break 4th Wall:
Research for Patchouli:

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

[Kilgamayan]

Elspeth has access to The Golden Gun?

Why are we just learning about this now?

[Iced Fairy]

Elspeth has access to The Golden Gun?

Why are we just learning about this now?

You didn't ask.   :V

Also you didn't build the uber cave that long ago.