Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 17

Current Stats

Wood	753	Gems	54
Iron	96	Money	1842
Research	120	Mana	150
Defense	330	Notoriety	159
Stress	9%	Morale	180/180

Income - 382 + 14 - 90

3 weeks of drought left.

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	32+5	19+2
Gems	126	77
Iron	63	38

Build - You can build the following structures:

Tower	900 wood, 450 iron, 45 gems	Mana +50
Ranch	450 wood	Raises Heather?s level
Bigger Library	450 wood	Raises Eskarina's level
Lab	450 wood, 180 iron	Raises Eskarina's level
Resturant	360 wood	Raises Chou's level
Office	450 wood	Raises Elle's level
Expanded Atlier	135 wood, 135 iron, 36 gems	Raises Kirala's level
Wine Cellar	450 wood, 90 iron, 8 gems	Raises Elminia'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.
Hot Spring	200 mana	Unlocks structures
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:
Control Weather:
Neverrust:

Spells - You may cast the following spells:
Name Devil - 100 mana - All done!
Call Rain - 20 mana - Gets you rain.
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.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[Kilgamayan]

Oh wow. Huge score on that spell. Way to go Mai!

Shouldn't the Foundry be off the list now that it's built? Also, did Maya actually do anything? There's nothing there. >_>

[Iced Fairy]

Blarg...

Cleared the Foundry and added Maya's bit.  Not that impressive a roll so just money.

[Serela]

Cast Call Rain, Dig, and Empower Gem (so we can build the Hot Spring next turn). That covers all 150 mana, in case anyone was wondering.

Research Neverrust, if there's any leftover use for Control Weather.

Personally, I'd say to build the Bigger Library this turn, but I'm fine with building whatever.

[Hello Purvis]

Library seems the way to go.

Would a mana gem be necessary, or could we just not spell 50 mana and end up with 200 next week?

[MysTeariousYukari]

Library seems the way to go.

Would a mana gem be necessary, or could we just not spell 50 mana and end up with 200 next week?

I think we currently cap at 150 unless something specifically puts us over that. I think we were going to do this before we got the Casting Chamber so we could name a Devil and cast something else.

[Iced Fairy]: Yep.  You cap at 150, so you'll need to empower gems for those 200+ mana spells.

[Hideki]

You need to change farmhand's name in the build structures area.

Um, I notice that we've been collecting notoriety like a black hole recently.  Should we do something about that, or is a high notoriety good?  I really don't want the goddess of Makai shutting us down for getting too powerful.

[MysTeariousYukari]

> Helepolis is restless? Wat u say :V Massage time baby Heck, if Helepolis is so bored, Massage's for everyone! Or as many devils as possible
> We should cast the spells that were mentioned earlier "Call Rain, Dig, and Empower Gem." If Dig is building specific for what it needs to be cast for, Hot Spring... if Dig even does anything for it.

[Iced Fairy]

Um, I notice that we've been collecting notoriety like a black hole recently.  Should we do something about that, or is a high notoriety good?

High notoriety increases the price to buy and sell things, the strength of events, and your base income.  It's a little more bad then good.

However you need not worry about Shinki coming to shut you down.  She knows you're harmless (so long as you stay harmless).

Edit: Dig is cast when you build something, and it would do nothing for the summoning of the Hot Spring anyway.

[Kasu]

Everything mentioned so far sounds good.

Research Control Weather and get Alouette to clean the house or something to relieve the restlessness.  Or let her do her own thing for a week and see what happens.

[mad]

Hibachi buys books on being a merchant

Can fighting crime kill us?

Fight crime

Maria trains more

Ruby goes find an ancient library

Kirala practices gem cutting

[Iced Fairy]

Can fighting crime kill us?

No.  Well okay yes, but you'll get better because you're the main character.

Current Ideas:

Build:
Expanded Library

Research:
Neverrust  + Control Weather

Cast:
Call Rain, Dig, and Empower Gem

Special:
1: Alouette cleans the house
2: Hibachi buys books on being a merchant
3: Maria trains more
4: Ruby goes to find an ancient library
5: Kirala works on gem cutting
6: Massage time
7:
8: The White Fox strikes again!

Missing one

[Hello Purvis]

>Let's have Alouette be a bit more useful. Have her make an inspection of the house for possible mold and mildew trouble spots, and recommend ways to deal with them.
>As for Hibachi, if we want her to get better, books aren't going to do it. Instead, let's send her out to there make some connections and give her some golds to wheel and deal with.

What effects does the White Fox have other than stopping the weekly event?

[Iced Fairy]

What effects does the White Fox have other than stopping the weekly event?

Notoriety drops, and there's a chance of injury and looting.  Er, evidence collecting.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 17 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "Magicians and books...."

You built a bigger library.

Eskarina

Scientist

3

+35 research.

Eskarina: "Hm... I have some interesting new theories Miss Yuki."

New spells availible for research.

Research Phase

You learn Neverrust.

Yuki: "That's actually really easy.  I should teach the devils this.  That should help keep maintenence down.  And if Ferra ever starts making tools we'll get more cash off of them."

Control Weather - 120

Yuki: "Feh.  Water spells again.  Oh well I'm halfway done."

Spells:

Yuki: "First, let's get some rain!"

Heather: "I can get crops again!"

Cassia: "And I can make a killing off of them."

The rain revives your crops.  You now have a surplus off food again.  Heather's income will be doubled for the remainder of the drought.

Yuki: "Now some digging."

Yuki: "And then a power gem."

Eskarina: "Impressive.  So much energy in such a small space."

Special Actions
1: Alouette - inspect the house

Alouette: "I expect to be able to bounce a quarter off the matresses!"

Joan: "Yes Ma'am!"

44
Alouette put the mansion in order.  All non event actions this week and next can, at worst, break even.

2: Hibachi - abuse the free market

Hibachi: "Whoops.  Sorry about the cherry market."

14
Hibachi earned $41, and bankrupted 3 farms.

3: Maya - train more

Maya: "Hm...  I think I've gotten a bit of a name for myself."

63
Maya get's a bonus to income based on notoriety.

4: Ruby - hunt down an ancient library

Ruby gains 35xp.

See event.

5: Kirala - work on gem cutting

Kirala: "Ahahaha, this is harder then it looks."

Kirala makes 3 more gems.

6: Massage time

Helepolis: "I'm glad to have you back Miss Yuki."

Lose 10 stress.

7: The White Fox strikes again!

Mai and Yuki sat enjoying some after dinner tea when Elspeth entered the room.  "Miss Mai, a vall for you.  On the red phone."

Yuki looked up incredulously.  "We have a red phone?"

Mai nodded, then headed towards the study.  Confused, Yuki followed.

Then she saw Mai open the secret passage behind the clock.

"No.  Oh no."

"Miss Yuki," Elspeth said from behind her.  "If you don't hurry it's certain you'll be spotted."

Cursing every diety she could think of, Yuki plunged back into madness.

***

Yuki did her best to dissapear.  Sara was certain to recognize them.

"Good to see you again White Fox.  And I'm glad to meet you as well Black Cat."

Or maybe everyone else was insane.

"What do you need, gatekeeper?" asked Mai.

Sara pulled out a map and a list.  "We had a few outsiders commiting some break ins.  Normally we'd ignore this, but there's been a disturbing pattern in the thefts."

Yuki looked at the list.  She couldn't make heads or tails of it.

Mai however apparently was a little more knowledgable about the human world.  "I see.  All from the library of Alexandria."

Sara nodded.  "Exactly White Fox.  So we've gotten a little worried.  We think their hidout is somewhere around here.  It would be a great weight off our chests if you took a look at it."

Yuki sighed.  "I suppose we should."

For some reason Sara chose that moment to turn around, so Yuki left before she could be recognized.  As she darted through the shadows she noticed Mai beside her.  "Good work on the dissapearing act." Mai said.

"I WANT to dissapear," muttered Yuki.

***

The site of course was crawling with goons.  Most of them in uniforms that Yuki almost found familiar.

"Are those nazis?" Yuki asked incredulously.

Mai nodded.  "Yep, old chum."

Yuki blinked at the odd term then asked the more important question.  "How are you sure?"

"Because Ruby's right there." Mai pointed.

Yuki looked.  Sure enough Ruby was hiding behind a nearby rock.

Figuring they should figure out why she was there Yuki moved to the cover.

Ruby of course went on guard before they reached her.  "Who's, oh Miss Yuki!  Miss Mai!  What are you doing here?  And what's with those sexy outfits!?"

Mai waved her hand.  "We're not Yuki and Mai.  You don't know us.  But you know we're helpful."

Ruby blinked.  "Oh.  You're not Yuki and Mai.  You just look like them.  Still you seem trustworthy."

Mai smiled.  "Indeed citizen.  So what's going on here."

Ruby pointed at the central area.  "Well they're Nazi's, but they're being led by a cyborg clone of Rasputin who's trying to destroy history and rewrite the world in his image.  They've collected a lot of library tomes in order to do that, so I'm hoping to stop them and steal the tomes for my masters."

Yuki wasn't thrilled with their odds, but the rewards sounded pretty nice.  And she kinda liked history as is.  "You have a plan?"

***

Yuki groaned as she woke up.  Staring down at her were Mai and Elspeth.  "Good, you're awake, Miss Yuki" Elspeth said with a sigh of relief.

Yuki tried to sit up, then the pain kicked in.  "Urgh, fuck.  What happened."

Mai looked apologetic.  "We were doing well until you set that Rasputin guy on fire.  Apparently he can reflect fire spells.  We took him out and got the goods, but you got hurt in the process.  Sorry."

Yuki groaned again.  "So why am I here and not being treated by Marie!?"

Elspeth bowed.  "We have to get you out of your uniform first.  After that we'll claim a lab accident caused by my incompetence injured you.  That should keep anyone from knowing."

Yuki sighed, then winced as the pain returned.  "Fine.  Just knock me out.  I don't want to feel the stairway up."

Mai winced.  "Sorry.  Don't worry.  I'll take care of you while you're down."

As Elspeth started a sleeping spell Yuki shook her head.  "I'm not too angry.  We still got the books."

Event:[/b]
You gain 28 stress, morale drops 21, notoriety drops 23.
Yuki is moderately wounded.
You gain 143 research worth of writings.
The manuals recovered all you to increase Joans level for 1d10 x $100

You gain 2 stress from work.
Cassia is restless
Eskarina is hyper

[Iced Fairy]

Week 18

Current Stats

Wood	413	Gems	63
Iron	146	Money	2367
Research	140+143	Mana	150*
Defense	330	Notoriety	126
Stress	30%	Morale	159/180

Income - 382 + 12 + 90

*You have one 50 mana gem

2 weeks of drought left.

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	32+10	19+5
Gems	126	77
Iron	63	38

Build - You can build the following structures:

Tower	900 wood, 450 iron, 45 gems	Mana +50
Ranch	450 wood	Raises Heather?s level
Lab	450 wood, 180 iron	Raises Eskarina's level
Resturant	360 wood	Raises Chou's level
Office	450 wood	Raises Elle's level
Expanded Atlier	135 wood, 135 iron, 36 gems	Raises Kirala's level
Wine Cellar	450 wood, 90 iron, 8 gems	Raises Elminia'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.
Hot Spring	200 mana	Unlocks structures
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:
Control Weather:
Metal Mastery:
Razorvine:
Break 4th Wall:

Spells - You may cast the following spells:
Name Devil - 100 mana - All done!
Call Rain - 20 mana - Gets you rain.
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.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[Hello Purvis]

WE MUST MASTER THE METAL!

[Suwako Moriya]

Where on Earth do you get the ideas for this flavor? >_>

[Suwako Moriya]

Okay srs post.

We nabbed the 200 Mana so we could cast the hot spring spell, right? Might as well do that.

Right now the two other structures that look both appealing and quickly buildable are the lab and the artificer's forge. Which one do we want to do first? I myself lean toward the forge, though it's hard to say for sure before we get an answer to...

IcedFairy: What exactly do tools do? I imagine it's largely a function of what they are, but if you could provide general ideas, that would be lovely. If you want a specific example, what would a hammer do?

[Iced Fairy]

IcedFairy: What exactly do tools do? I imagine it's largely a function of what they are, but if you could provide general ideas, that would be lovely. If you want a specific example, what would a hammer do?

Tools in general are things you sell.

Specific magical tools that Ferra can forge are likely to raise the level of the devils that use them.

(As for where the flavor comes from, that was a combination of Batman (Normal and Adam West flavored), Hellboy, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Raidou Kunzou vs the Souless Army.  Mixed with a dash of san loss)

[MysTeariousYukari]

Let's finish up getting Control Weather, then start going for Fire Mastery, Razorvine and probly Break 4th Wall or Metal Mastery.

Iced Fairy: What do those spells(aside from Control Weater) even do for us? Or is it a "Get them to find out" sorta deal?

[Hello Purvis]

WE WILL MASTER THE METAL FIRST.

After control weather.

Also: Hyper?

[Iced Fairy]

Iced Fairy: What do those spells(aside from Control Weater) even do for us? Or is it a "Get them to find out" sorta deal?

Razorvine probably lets you grow the plant of the same name, allowing for the prettiest razorwire fence you've ever put eyes on.
The Mastery Spells and Break 4th Wall are take and see, though you can get hints to the first from the story that spawned the whole thing and hints to the second in the first post.

Also: Hyper?

It's like restless.  Only with a stack of research materials.  And SCIENCE!

You may want to give her something to do before she builds a death ray and starts attracting spys.

[MysTeariousYukari]

I feel I am missing a reference that you seem to have noticed and liked Purvis. Care to share?

Iced Fairy: The Batmai/White Fox thing showed at the end that we got 143 in reasearch mats, but our reasearch only shows 140... wouldn't it say 140+143? Or am I missing something?

increase Joans level for 1d10(w/e that means) x $100

I am sorry, but I that makes me think Joan just gained 1d10 x 100 levels... What was it meant as though?

> We need a massage badly, without a doubt. I don't even remember the last time our Stress hit 30%

[Iced Fairy]

Iced Fairy: The Batmai/White Fox thing showed at the end that we got 143 in reasearch mats, but our reasearch only shows 140... wouldn't it say 140+143? Or am I missing something?

Whoops!

I am sorry, but I that makes me think Joan just gained 1d10 x 100 levels... What was it meant as though?

Alas, no.  You may spend $100-$1000 to have Joan gain one level for no action if you wish.

[Hello Purvis]

We need an Omnissage

Get Helepolis teamed up with Chou, Elmina, and Glenda to give as an splurge day. With a show.

[MysTeariousYukari]

$100-$1000 to insta-gain a level? I say it's worth it, the range isn't that huge, and we rarely spend, and whenever we do, we almost always get a nice benefit. This falls under "nice benefit" to me.

> Make use of the $100-$1000 Joan Level Up.
> Hibachi Book hunt. Something that can be used by our Doctor is prefered(mainly for a level up), but if nothing useful can be found, research material or books that will aid someone else will also do nicely. Price isn't really THAT much of an issue.
> If our injury does not slow/affect it too much, finish research on our current spell, then Metal Mastery, then Fire Mastery, then Razorvine, and should any remain, Improved Defense Turret.
> Eskarina/Hyper Devil will need something so that she isn't Hyper. let's give her the 'Go Ahead' on researching something/anything of her choice, so long as it either helps us, or doesn't cause issues for us.

[Kasu]

We need an Omnissage

Get Helepolis teamed up with Chou, Elmina, and Glenda to give as an splurge day. With a show.

$100-$1000 to insta-gain a level? I say it's worth it, the range isn't that huge, and we rarely spend, and whenever we do, we almost always get a nice benefit. This falls under "nice benefit" to me.

> Make use of the $100-$1000 Joan Level Up.
> Hibachi Book hunt. Something that can be used by our Doctor is prefered(mainly for a level up), but if nothing useful can be found, research material or books that will aid someone else will also do nicely. Price isn't really THAT much of an issue.
> If our injury does not slow/affect it too much, finish research on our current spell, then Metal Mastery, then Fire Mastery, then Razorvine, and should any remain, Improved Defense Turret.
> Eskarina/Hyper Devil will need something so that she isn't Hyper. let's give her the 'Go Ahead' on researching something/anything of her choice, so long as it either helps us, or doesn't cause issues for us.

Agreed with both of these.

Also, the hot spring is an obvious build this week.

Get Cassia to find a way to make more money or something.

[Hello Purvis]

In particular, have Cassia look for overlapping purchases that we might be able to get some bulk benefits on.

[Kasu]

I TOTALLY want to research Break the 4th Wall, but I think it can wait.  I just wanna see what happens.  :3