Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[Serela]

I agree with all of the above, though I think we should save up the gems for that barrier.

While I agree now that the barrier would be nice, getting to build twice per turn > building once per turn for like 4 turns to get the barrier.

Plus, it's defense tower bonus at the moment would be nill because we don't even HAVE any Defense Towers. Let's build one soon. Maybe this turn.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Clearly either Iced Fairy planned this, or we got the really crappy end of the stick. Barrier is likely the only thing that prevents those idiots.

Iced Fairy, what was that recent event based off of? I was thinking of the Diablo games or some other MMO, but I'm not certain.

[Iced Fairy]

Clearly either Iced Fairy planned this, or we got the really crappy end of the stick. Barrier is likely the only thing that prevents those idiots.

This was decently high end, but you've been surprisingly lucky about avoiding all the other terrible events.

Iced Fairy, what was that recent event based off of? I was thinking of the Diablo games or some other MMO, but I'm not certain.

Worse.  Dungeons and Dragons, 3.5.

[Kilgamayan]

Could be even worse than that, it could be 4.

[Iced Fairy]

Could be even worse than that, it could be 4.

Avoiding the edition way, I'll state simply that when it comes to having to FIGHT the characters you want them to be playing 2nd or 4th.

I avoided the really cheap tricks because they didn't beat your defense.

And having said that, I must redeem my honor.   :colonveeplusalpha:

[MysTeariousYukari]

Next big one we get should reference a more popular MMO or MMO-like game, that isn't WoW or D&D. PSO or Diablo mehbeh? Seriously, if we get invaded by chars from a game, please make it PSO ^_^

It would take multiple turns to gain the stuff needed for the barrier, right? Let's do what we can to allow building it soon, but let's not go outright focused on it.

In a sane manner, when was the earliest point we coulda gotten access to Double Build/Apophis Lv3?

[Iced Fairy]

In a sane manner, when was the earliest point we coulda gotten access to Double Build/Apophis Lv3?

There was no sane manner to do that.  Apophis wasn't supposed to have a level 3, but you pushed for training via special actions so I tweaked things.

[mad]

Can Devil summoning be used several time per turn?

Can Devil summoning be used several times on the same devil in one turn i.e. summoning Elminia so that she can train, support her own training, and support Ruby's quest for gems all on the same turn?

[Iced Fairy]

Can Devil summoning be used several time per turn?

Yes

Can Devil summoning be used several times on the same devil in one turn i.e. summoning Elminia so that she can train, support her own training, and support Ruby's quest for gems all on the same turn?

Yes, but there may be some confusion.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Yes, but there may be some confusion.

In what sense? Just so we are completly clear on what you meant.

[Iced Fairy]

In what sense? Just so we are completly clear on what you meant.

Three of the same devil running about might cause them to forget which task they're supposed to be doing this Tuesday.

Four might lead to general confusion and morale oddities (+ or -)

If you actually go into 5 or six events of import may occur.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Three of the same devil running about might cause them to forget which task they're supposed to be doing this Tuesday.

Four might lead to general confusion and morale oddities (+ or -)

If you actually go into 5 or six events of import may occur.

Oh...

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Anyone wanna try 5+ of the same devil before we make the choice end the game? Once it's viable to do so, I mean. It sounds like it can be hilariously funny to try, and if we get to the point where we can end the game any time, what do we have to lose?

[mad]

That sounds like an amusing plan.

Let's make sure Morale is maximum and Stress is minimum first.

Are there any more structures or spells to permenently increase the amount of mana we get each turn?

[Iced Fairy]

Are there any more structures or spells to permenently increase the amount of mana we get each turn?

No.

[Iced Fairy]

Slightly delayed plan summary

Build:

Office and/or Gardens and/or Defense Towers

(Two of Three)

Research:
Research wood mastery [You are likely to finish]

Cast:
Summon ferra

150 mana left

Special
1 - Hibachi wheels and deals with 400 money

2 - Apophis acts to build the Gardens

3+4 - Ferra builds tools for Maria and Joan

5+6 - Mai and Eskarina help research

7 - Kirala trains

8 - Elspeth supports Kirala

9 - Maria heals Joan

10 - Helepolis massages

(Full set, new orders will take precedence over orders past #2)

[Hello Purvis]

I think it may be wiser to give Marie 400 golds instead, and have her spend it on healing the wounded. And calling on anyone she needs to assist in this.

Maybe give Helepolis the week off.

[Iced Fairy]

Indeed.  Of the people on the list Ferra, Elspeth and Helepolis are still injured.

[mad]

After wood mastery, put the remaining points into break fourth walll

Summon Marie she heals Ferra

Instead of Helepolis massaging

Ruby goes out in search of gems.

Convert 20 gems into wood

That should be Elminia doing the supporting

[Iced Fairy]

That should be Elminia doing the supporting

Elminia is the waitress.  While she can support it'll mostly be in supplying cold drinks.  Not an auto success

[Kasu]

Build the Office and the Gardens.  Leave the Defense Towers for later.

[mad]

Elminia is the waitress.  While she can support it'll mostly be in supplying cold drinks.  Not an auto success

Ok. Elspeth does support then.

Would Marie being given money allow her to treat multiple casualties?

[Hello Purvis]

Rather, let's give Elspeth a break. If we're not going to beef up defense now, then we want no further morale problems for when those dudes come back. Kirala succeeding is not super important.

[Iced Fairy]

Would Marie being given money allow her to treat multiple casualties?

Marie can always try to treat multiple casualties.  More money would help her succeed.

[Iced Fairy]

I'll update in the morning.  As a note: If you follow Purvis' suggestion and give Elspeth a break you have 1 action left over.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's have Heather take a post-drought assessment, and make suggestions on what the farm needs.

[mad]

Instead of single treatments, Marie takes 500 to heal all injured.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 30 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "Um, I just realized something."

Apophis: "What?"

Sakaki: "How do you 'build' a garden?"

You built the gardens.  You built the Office.

Elle: "Ah!  This will help me keep things orginized.  I should be able to handle more of the paperwork."

Elle   Office Lady   2   Reduces stress gains by 2%

Alloutte: "Now that we've cleared a little more space I have a few building suggestions Mistress."

Research Phase

You complete wood Mastery

Yuki: "Hah!  Take that Patchouli!  I've mastered your stupid Philosopher's Stone!"

Mai: "Doesn't that just make us more gold?"

Yuki: "Fuck."

Learned Philosopher's Stone.  Income +1000.

Spells:

Yuki: "Hm...  Ferra's still hurt so...."

Marie: "Whoa!  This is strange.  I wonder what the long term health impacts are."

Summoned Marie.  Turned 20 gems to wood.

Special Actions

1 - Hibachi : wheel and deal with 400 money

Hibachi: "Money makes the world go round, world go round, world go round..."

84
Earned $480 profit

2 - Apophis: build the Gardens

Apophis: "Okay, so if I move the backhoe here...."

3 - Marie: heal Ferra

Marie: "This may sting a bit.

4 - Ferra: build tools for Marie

Ferra: "Wait!  Use this golden hypodermic needle instead!  It hurts less."

Marie: "Wuss."

5+6) Mai+Eskarina: Research Wood Mastery

Mai: "We're done."

Eskarina: "I learned something interesting about gravity...."

Can't research a finished spell.

7 - Kirala trains

Kirala: "Hrm.  Chainsaw nunchucks don't increase speed."

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Failure

8 - Heather take a post-drought assessment, and make suggestions on what the farm needs.

Heather: "Um... about that.  Well let's just say we need lots of quick growing plants."

9 - Marie: heal as many as possible with $500

Marie: "Alright here's your daily regimine.  Proper diet, lots of sleep.  And don't you dare try to keep praticing Maya!"

Maya: "Oh come on... Ow!"

Helepolis is cured, Elspeth is cured, Joan heals two wounds to slightly hurt

10 - Ruby goes out in search of gems

Ruby: "Let's try for the Eye of Larn!"

Ruby earned 23 gems, $45, 6 potions of water, and a hammering flail.

Ruby: "Purple Worms suck."

Yuki looked at the devil standing before her.  "Are you sure?  I didn't see anything in my diviniations."

"Well I think it's a couple of days out, but I'm certain the rains are coming," Heather replied.

Yuki sighed, "And we just built the gardens too.  Any suggestions?"

Heather nodded.  "Actually yes.  We can set up some tarps to help the gardens and we should probably plant something like iceplant out in the nearby fields."

"Why iceplant?" Yuki asked.

"Well the drought kind of killed a lot of local plants.  Our fields are fine because you summoned the rain, but the other areas are short on plants, so the rain might make mudslides.  We need something to hold the soil in," Heather said.

"Hm... Well we can fix the weather magically, but your way sound easier.  Elspeth is cleared for light work, have her plant the seeds."  After a few seconds Yuki added, "And Mai is bored, so have her quick grow the plant for you."

Heather smiled happily.  "Thanks!  I should have everything done before the first rains start!"

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Yuki slapped a sound dampening spell on the window.  It wasn't just rain apparently.  There was hail too.  Fortunately their windows were protected against that, but it was still loud as all hell.

"There.  Now Allouette, how's the garden holding up?"

"The hail's damaged our flood control work, but it shouldn't be too damaging.  I expect Heather to fix it easily," the devil replied.

"Good," Yuki turned her attention to where Mai was scrying. "Any other damage Mai?"

Mai just shook her head.  Apparently Heathers plan had worked.

Yuki smiled.  Heather's advice had paid off.  It was anticlimatic, but sometimes that was a good thing.

Event:Torrential Rains!  For the next week heavy rains will flood the area.  Little damage is expected due to Heathers work.
No affects due to preperations.
This week's work caused 0 stress.
Maya is hurt
Joan is slightly hurt but can ignore it

[Iced Fairy]

Week 31

Current Stats

Wood	796	Gems	229
Iron	503	Money	5100
Research	140	Mana	200
Defense	355	Notoriety	222
Stress	19%	Morale	160/180

Income - 1989 + 38
Morale Gain +2/week

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
Maid quarters	425 wood, $850	Raises Allouette's level, Acquires extra maids.
Accountants Chambers	425 wood, 425 iron	Raises Cassia's level
Waiting Room	425 wood	Reduces visitor costs.  Build path end.
Buisness Room	425 wood, 45 gems	Raises Hibachi's level.
Art for the Mansion	255 gems	Raises Alouette's level
High class Resturant	818 wood, 140 iron	Raises Chou's Level
Clock Tower	13250 wood, 13250 iron	The Finishing Touch.  Wins the game.  Prince decreases as other build paths are completed.
Massage Parlor	850 wood, 170 iron	Raises Helepolis' level
Defense Tower	42 wood, 42 iron, 4 gems, 25 mana	+25 defense
Barrier	425 gems	Impassible Defense.  Defense Tower bonus is multiplied by the number of towers.

Research - You can research the following things.  Spells in italics are halfway finished.
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+10 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

[Hello Purvis]

I like that Maid's Quarter. More maids theoretically means more things we can do. Or at least more fun mischiefs. Also get a defense tower going.

Maya needs a healin'.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Lets get the hurt devils healed, spending money if we need to.

Gems to wood(not sure how many) so that we can get two buildings that need the 425 Wood.

Maid quarters would be good, maybe the business room as well. If not, meeting room, so as to lower the price on the Tower.