Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[Hello Purvis]

Possibility: Try to get Hibachi to find a straight exchange of wood for iron?

[mad]

Possibility: Try to get Hibachi to find a straight exchange of wood for iron?

I wouldn't do it. We still need vast amounts of wood.

Maybe we should send Maya and Glenda out to do another show?

[Hello Purvis]

Yes, but we produce wood much faster than iron.

[mad]

We also need way more wood than iron

It looks like we will have enough money to buy the rest of the required wood for a bar next turn.

should the Kirala's level be two now?

edit: I think we should do that when we're close to being able to construct the foundry.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 14 Results

Building Phase

Apophis: "This should keep out most things.  Or at least slow them down."

+20 defense

Research Phase

Dig

You mastered Dig.  For 5 mana you can reduce the cost of a building that you are creating by 10 wood and iron (one use per building)

Sakaki: "This will make setting up foundations easier."

Yuki: "Hm... I wonder if I can make something with a little more oomph?"

New Attacks - 100

Yuki: "Hm... Halfway there, but still needs more work."

Spells:

Yuki: "We need iron, and lots of it."

Special Actions
1: Ruby - Clear out the mines

Ruby: "Right.  This time use fire."

Success!  Gained $40 and 1 gem.

Ruby: "It's not clear exactly, but theres a safe perimeter where we can do all the gem wrok we need to."

2: Mai - Research

Mai learned Devil Trigger.
For 200 mana you can double a devils effectiveness with no appreciable side effects.

Mai: "Useful."

3: Hibachi - Acquire Books.

Hibachi: "Strange.  No one's selling right now..."

Gained 5 wood and iron via random dealing.

4+5: Eskarina + Apophis

Apophis: "Hm... This won't be easy."

Eskarina: "But we'll take a shot."

Eureka!  It takes $755, but the two devils manage to develop a whole new field of magical architecture.

Apophis

Architect

2

Reduces building Costs by 10%

Apophis: "Again my power grows!"

Yuki: "Stop that."

Apophis: "Sorry...."

6: Helepolis - Training

Helepolis: "Hm...  It's fun.  But I don't think I'm learning much."

Gained $20 from experimentees.

"Yarr!  We be demanding yer valuables matey!"

Yuki sighed then yelled up at the ship, "That was two days ago!  Piracy isn't legal anymore.  Come back next year!"

The eyepatched devil looked confused.  "Shiver me timbers?  Be ye certain?  Check the calendar."

"The wench be right cap'n!  The season be over!"

"Damn and blast it all." The figure swore.  "Well, sorry for disturbin ye matey.  We'll be back again next year."

As the airship sailed off Yuki muttered vile threats towards whichever devil had thought it would be funny to sell piracy licenses.  Sure it cut down on the amount of robberies during the year, but it was a PAIN suring the season.

Yuki's plot to find out their likeness and send it to Alice for curse doll testing was interrupted by Mai rushing out of the house.  "What is it?"

Mai simply held out a paper, pointing at the obituaries.

Yuki noticed the name immediately.  "That old coot kicked the bucket?  Good riddiance.  Frozen by a fairy?  Ahahahaha, that makes it even better."  Yuki smiled at her friend.  "Thanks, I needed that."

Mai sighed and shook the paper again.  "Look."

Yuki checked where Mai's finger was pointing now.  Then her eyes widened.  "Cassia, Eskarina, Hibachi pack your bags!  We've got an auction to go to!"

---

The magician community was out in force.

Fortunately Joan had insisted on coming as well, and she was very good at politely clearing a path.  This helped secure Yuki and her entourage a good bidding position.  Sadly they didn't have the cash to get the GOOD artifacts, but hopefully they'd still be able to pick up some useful stuff.

"Okay, here's the plan.  Escarina, give me some non verbal signal when the item going up is worth something to you.  I can get the magical stuff but science isn't my field.  Hibachi.  You scan the room.  Give me a cue if someone's obviously going to keep bidding.  Might as well try to bankrupt our competitors early on.  Cassia, keep us in budget.  I don't want negative numbers next month.  Give me a queue when we should stop."  Yuki looked over the three devils.  "Got it?"

"Yes Miss Yuki," they all replied.

---

"Do I hear 50? 50! 60? 60!"

Yuki's eyes narrowed.  It looked like a fierce bidding war had already started up.  And at least one of the participants looked like they were only going to make one big end purchase.  Still she wasn't sure.

"Do I hear 900?"

Yuki jumped up as someone groped her breasts from behind.  Suddenly realizing what had happened she raised her auction number into the air, while smacking Hibachi upside the head.

"I said non verbal cue.  Not 'please grope me.'"

"Sorry mistress...."

---

"Next we have this plastic device labled "Intel".  A curiosity of the outside world.  Going for $10...."

Yuki was looking to get a glimpse of the next item when Mai jumped and let out a muffled squeek.  Yuki sighed and raised her auction number, while Mai smacked Eskarina over the head.  As the scientist devil took her hands out from Mai's skirt Yuki stated, "Groping Mai is also not a good cue.  It's not exactly subtle either."

Joan snickered.

---

Yuki yawned.  It had been a long day, but she'd aquired a great deal of magical writings and a few useful items.  She'd even managed to get a gift for the rest of the mansion.  The bidding was starting to die down though, which meant they'd probably be pulling out a few big items they were keeping around.

"Next we have the wizard's very own alchemy kit, fully labeled and cleaned."

Yuki's ears perked up.  That could be fairly useful, especially given the books she'd aquired.  She got ready to enter the biding when she suddenly felt lips on her own.

Cassia's kiss lasted a full twenty seconds before Yuki rapped her on the head and got her voice back.  "What was that?  With the others they could pretend they were interpreting my orders correctly, but you should have known better!"

Cassia wiped away some crocodile tears, "But I had to finish the joke!  It's a rule."

Yuki sighed and shook her head.  "Oh well, whatever.  Good work everyone.  Now let's go home and sort out what's useful in all the stuff we grabbed."

Hibachi nodded.  "I imagine a lot off people will be doing that.  Market's probably going to be a little wierd for a bit."

Event:
Estate Auction.  You grabbed as much loot as you could.
You spent $930 at the auction.  You gain 250 bonus research worth of scrolls books and items.  You gain 13 gems.  Morale is at max.  Stress increased by 6.  Market prices have fluctuated.

You gain 1 stress this week.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 15

Current Stats

Wood	188	Gems	54
Iron	121	Money	843
Research	120+250	Mana	150
Defense	230	Notoriety	102
Stress	7%	Morale	180/180

Income - 325 + 9

Special note!  Extra research will be spent AFTER the weekly research has been used up.  This extra research can be carried over week to week.

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	27-12	11-6
Gems	94+25	55+12
Iron	49	22

Build - You can build the following structures:

Build - You can build the following structures: Tower 900 wood, 450 iron, 45 gems Mana +50 Ranch 450 wood Raises Farmhand?s level Bigger Library 450 wood Raises Eskarina's level Lab 450 wood, 180 iron Raises Eskarina's level Bar 180 wood Raises Bartender's level Office 450 wood Raises Elle's level Foundry 340 iron Raises Ferra's level Expanded Atlier 135 wood, 135 iron, 36 gems Raises Kirala's level Wine Cellar 450 wood, 90 iron, 8 gems Raises Butler's level Mansion 872 wood, 870 iron Allows all structures to be built Artificers Forge 90 gems, 180 iron Can forge tools and other artifacts. Defense Tower 45 wood, 45 iron, 4 gems, 25 mana +10 defense

Research - You can research the following things.  Spells in italics are halfway finished.
Transmute Gems to Wood:
Transmute Gems to Iron:
Improved Defense Tower:
New attacks:
Create Foundations:
Call Rain:

Spells - You may cast the following spells:
Name Devil - 100 mana - Special: You must name the devil. - Pick an unnamed devil.  That devil gains the name you desire and 1 level of skill immediately.  In addition, named devils are far more likely to succeed at special tasks and add to defense.  Named devils may gain other special abilities as well.
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
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.
Enhance Devil - 50 mana - Doubles Devils effectiveness at the cost of a week of exhaustion.
Devil Trigger - 200 mana - Doubles Devils effectiveness
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.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[Kilgamayan]

Holy shit wood market.

Suggesting we send Hibachi out to buy 40 Wood ($600).

Also suggest we pour research into Create Foundations while dumping the leftovers into New Attacks.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Holy shit wood market.

Suggesting we send Hibachi out to buy 40 Wood ($600).

Also suggest we pour research into Create Foundations while dumping the leftovers into New Attacks.

Yeah, we need to go out and take advantage of that market.

And if any is left over, we should probly put it into the Gems into Iron or Gems into Wood spells.

That Event was 900 and something Gold Very Well Spent. Wonder who got Iced by that Ice Fairy :V

[Hello Purvis]

Pretty much concurring with Kilga. Worse comes to worst, we can make some money reselling when the market stabilizes.

[mad]

research create foundation and put the rest into new attacks and if there is still more points available, put the rest into Gems to Iron. If even after all that, there are still more points left, pour them into gems to wood. I think this would signifigantly help with resources

Build the Bar with the dig spell

convert remaining mana into iron

Glenda and Maya do another show

Have Mai research a spell

Do you have to build a portal to take advantage of that gem mine?

Ruby should grind

[Iced Fairy]

Do you have to build a portal to take advantage of that gem mine?

Yes

[Kasu]

Holy shit wood market.

Suggesting we send Hibachi out to buy 40 Wood ($600).

Also suggest we pour research into Create Foundations while dumping the leftovers into New Attacks.

research create foundation and put the rest into new attacks and if there is still more points available, put the rest into Gems to Iron. If even after all that, there are still more points left, pour them into gems to wood. I think this would signifigantly help with resources

Build the Bar with the dig spell

convert remaining mana into iron

Glenda and Maya do another show

Have Mai research a spell

Ruby should grind

All of this sounds good.

Also, build the portal to the Gem Mine.

Lastly, if its separate from the other research, get started on researching the stuff we obtained from the auction.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's have Eskarina and Heather team up to test the soil around the manor, and find the optimal crop rotations for max profits.

[MysTeariousYukari]

> IcedFairy: Rather then just having Ruby go and grind, couldn't we have her and Joan spar/mock battle with each other? Would we gain anything from this, or must we try it 1st to know?

[Iced Fairy]

> IcedFairy: Rather then just having Ruby go and grind, couldn't we have her and Joan spar/mock battle with each other? Would we gain anything from this, or must we try it 1st to know?

You could do that, but there would probably be less gain.  Ruby acquires resources and money while grinding, which she won't find on the practice field.  However if you're very lucky Joan might benefit significantly from the training, since Ruby is by far the strongest of the devils.

[MysTeariousYukari]

> IcedFairy: Would the chance of Joan getting something good out of it rise with Rubies Level?
> Ruby should grind, as mentioned earlyer.

Well, we have one more way to power up a Devil now.

[Iced Fairy]

> IcedFairy: Would the chance of Joan getting something good out of it rise with Rubies Level?

Yeah, but on a percentage point per level kinda basis.  It's better but not mind blowingly so.

[Iced Fairy]

Current Suggested Actions:

Buying $600 of Wood

Building Bar

Research:
Foundations -> New attacks -> Gems to Iron -> Gems to Wood

Spells:
Using Dig for Bar.
Building Portal
Creating Iron

1+2: Glenda and Maya do another show

3: Have Mai research a spell

4: Ruby Grinds

5+6: Eskarina and Heather team up to maximize crop production.

7: Hibachi swindles aquires better deals for wood.

[Kilgamayan]

Has Sakaki always been +100 wood? I thought she was +150 for a while.

[Iced Fairy]

Has Sakaki always been +100 wood? I thought she was +150 for a while.

There was an event that boosted her output once.  I think that was before I realize the potential for confusion and started using the +X figure for temp bonuses.

[Kilgamayan]

Damn.

We really need a way to boost our wood accrual.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Yeah... oh well, nothing we can do without the proper buildings.

[Kilgamayan]

Actually, can I change our wood purchase from "40 Wood" to "~$600 worth of wood, rounding the money up to the nearest whole piece of wood as necessary"? I don't want to blow a ton of money of wood if Hibachi flubs her haggling, and I don't want to lose the opportunity to get even more if Hibachi manages a discount.

[Iced Fairy]

Actually, can I change our wood purchase from "40 Wood" to "~$600 worth of wood, rounding the money up to the nearest whole piece of wood as necessary"? I don't want to blow a ton of money of wood if Hibachi flubs her haggling, and I don't want to lose the opportunity to get even more if Hibachi manages a discount.

It is done.

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's have Elle, Elmina, Shotglass, and Cassia team up to see what they can do to make the bar portion of things more profitable; assuming it doesn't run us out of actions.

[mad]

If Purvis's proposed action does bring us over, I propose Helepolis practice her techniques.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 14 Results

Building Phase

Apophis: "This should keep out most things.  Or at least slow them down."

You make a bar.  "Shotglass" level up.

"Shotglass"

Bartender

2

$75 income

"Shotglass": "Finally!  Time to start working!"

Research Phase

Foundations - 200
You researched the Foundations spell.  For 100 mana you may increase the discount on a building by 5%

Yuki: "That'll help a lot with the larger buildings."

New attacks - 100
You mastered some more attacks.  +50 defense.  However your devils are still vulnerable.

Yuki: "That should keep those kids off our lawn."

Yuki: "Hey, what's this Fire mastery?"

Gems to Iron - 75

10 mana, 1 gem -> 20 iron

Gems to Wood - 50

5 mana, 1 gem -> 40 wood

Spells:

Yuki: "Let's see...."

Cast Dig for the Bar
Created Iron.
Opened Gem Mine Portal

Kirala: "Hm...  That'll speed me up a bit."
+2 gem production.

Special Actions
1 + 2: Glenda and Maya perform!

Glenda: "A policeman's lot is not a happy one..."

+$99

2: Mai - Research

Mai learned new attacks as well.  +50 defense.

Mai: "Can't fall behind."

4: Ruby: Grind.

Ruby: "Where are the metal slimes..."

Gained 57 xp.  Level UP!  Mastered Familiar Job.
Gained 4 gems, $153, 2 iron

5+6: Eskarina + Heather attempt to maximize crop production.

Eskarina: "Aha!  With this we'll never need to use fertalizer again!"

Heather: "And we'll have food year round!"

Cassia: "And we'll lose money hand over fist!"

Heather: "Oh."

Failure.  No loss, no gain.

7: Hibachi - Wheel and deal.

Hibachi: "All too easy."

Hibachi uses $600 to buy 80 wood.

8: Helepolis - Train.

Helepolis: "Hm...  I've got ideas, but I'd need some sort of Sauna..."

Gained $23 from experimentees.

Yuki sniffed the air.  She smelled smoke.  Mildy curious she rang the bell to summon one of her familiars.

Elminia quickly walked in.  "Do you need something Miss?"

"Perhaps some tea.  And if you could, please tell me why there's smoke."

Elminia bowed.  "Oh that?  There was some motercycle gang that tried to attack.  Or maybe they just wanted to jump the walls.  Anyway they failed."

Yuki raised an eyebrow.  "Did they fail the jump normally or did you set them on fire?"

"I didn't set them on fire," Elminia protested.  "That was all Ruby, Escarina and Joan."

"It's alright.  I don't really care about those trash,"  Yuki went back to the books she'd bought.  "If you could grab the tea, please...."

"As you command mistress."

***

Yuki yawned as she took the stairs down to the dining hall.  She could order breakfast in bed, but she considered that a little lazy.

Arriving at the table she found Mai already there.  Her fellow magician nodded, then put the paper in front of her.

"Mysterious Mansion claims another gang!  New magician overlords on the rise!?!?"

"Crap."

Event:
Biker gangs attacked and failed miserably.  Sadly this failure was reported.
Gained 22 notoriety.

You gain 0 stress this week.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 14

Current Stats

Wood	198	Gems	55
Iron	147	Money	911
Research	120+15	Mana	150
Defense	330	Notoriety	134
Stress	7%	Morale	180/180

Income - 382 + 13

Special note!  Extra research will be spent AFTER the weekly research has been used up.  This extra research can be carried over week to week.

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	27-7	11-3
Gems	94+12	55+6
Iron	49	22

Build - You can build the following structures:

Tower	900 wood, 450 iron, 45 gems	Mana +50
Ranch	450 wood	Raises Farmhand?s level
Bigger Library	450 wood	Raises Eskarina's level
Lab	450 wood, 180 iron	Raises Eskarina's level
Resturant	360 wood	Raises Elminia's level
Office	450 wood	Raises Elle's level
Foundry	340 iron	Raises Ferra's level
Expanded Atlier	135 wood, 135 iron, 36 gems	Raises Kirala's level
Wine Cellar	450 wood, 90 iron, 8 gems	Raises Butler's level
Mansion	872 wood, 870 iron	Allows all structures to be built
Artificers Forge	90 gems, 180 iron	Can forge tools and other artifacts.
Defense Tower	45 wood, 45 iron, 4 gems, 25 mana	+10 defense

Research - You can research the following things.  Spells in italics are halfway finished.
Improved Defense Tower:
Fire Mastery:
Call Rain:
Neverrust:
Create Hot Spring:

Spells - You may cast the following spells:
Name Devil - 100 mana - All done!
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
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.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[Hello Purvis]

I think the laws of the universe demand we learn create hot spring.

[mad]

after create hot spring, put the rest into neverrust

shouldn't Kirala now produce seven gems?

Is create foundation a one time casting or do we need to cast it repeatedly.

If it is a one time casting, cast it and convert 5 gems into iron.

if not, convert 9 gems into iron and 12 gems into wood.

Hibachi buy books on iron-making, gem crafting, maps of places likely to have treasure, being a merchant, and architecture if we can swing it.

If we can't send her out with five targets, go for gem crafting.

Have Mai research a spell.

Have Ruby seek out a treasure hoard.

Glenda and Maya perform

Joan trains

Ferra and Kirala should try to make a cool thing