Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 19 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "Okay, let's get Elminia and Chou working."

You build a resturant

Chou

Cook

3

$140 income, Devils are less likely to become bored

Chou: "Finally.  We can start getting rid of the lunch line before the dinner rush..."

Research Phase

Metal Mastery: 343

Yuki: "Okay, we're getting somewhere.  I've seen something like this before..."

Spells:

Yuki: "Building spells, go.  And a gem for fun."
You saved 46 wood and got 1 gem

Special Actions

1) Ruby - seek out gems.

Ruby: "I found these deeper in the mines.  Er, well shallower in the mines actually, since we started near the bottom."

Ruby earned 15xp.  Learned Lucky Strike!  Earned 14 gems!  Marie prevented an injury.

2) Apophis - Investigate other kinds of architecture around town

Apophis: "Hm...  Not really feeling anything"

8
Failure.  No gains.

3) Hibachi - seek books on gem cutting.

Hibachi: "Here's something nice!"

97
The book cost $400

4) Kirala practice gem cutting.

Kirala: "I've got it!"

97
Using the book and $200, Kirala gained a level!

Kirala

Artisan

2

+25 income, +12 gems

5) Mai - research a spell

Mai: "..."

28
Mai gives 78 research to Water Mastery

6) Maria - trains in medicine

Maria: "Oh dear.  That went poorly.  Oh well I never liked him anyway."

20
No real gain or loss.  For you."

7) Joan Trains on defensive work

Joan: "Don't worry about anything in a fight.  I'll protect you."

52
Joan will automatically protect one devil.

8 ) Maya trains in European dances.

Maya: "Hm....  Not as fun, but it makes good money."

69
Maya earned $89

Yuki was looking over Mai's notes on water spells when she heard the trumpeting of an elephant.

"Eskarina!" she called out.

"Yes Miss Yuki?" the devil replied, looking up from her experiment.

"I'm very busy right now, so I need you to answer me truthfully.  Was that an elephant I heard?" Yuki asked very calmly.

Eskarina thought about the matter a bit.  "I believe it was Miss Yuki, though I only have a 78% certainty."

Yuki sighed.  "Oh.  Fun."

Carefully setting her notes down she preped some powerful attacks and headed for the courtyard.

Sure enough as soon as she stepped outside she saw two elephants being held back by an impromptu fortification created by Joan and Ruby.  Sakaki was frantically building a second wall for fire support, and Elminia was shuttling ammunition to the two frontline devils.

Yuki sighed and set one of the elephants on fire.  Which for some reason caused it's friend to catch fire as well.  She became concearned when the barracades caught fire but fortunately Mai arrived to put them out.  As the elephants succumbed to the flames Yuki moved to speak to Ruby.

"Explain."

Ruby looked up at her.  "I'm sorry miss Yuki!  I dug too high and awakened the terror that helped drive the dwarves from the fortress!  The terrifying elephants that killed so many!"

Yuki sighed again.  "Fun, eh?  Well they're gone now right?"

Joan shook her head.  "I fear that was only the first wave."

Yuki rolled her eyes.  "Elle!  Take a note!  When I achieve ultimate power I will destroy the world our gem mine is in!"

"Before or after we find a new mine Miss Yuki?" asked the devil.

"After."  Yuki then turned to Mai.  "I know how to handle this.  Keep freezing them while I prep the spell that'll flood the place with lava.  It shouldn't take too long...."

Event:Elephants attacked.  However your devils held them off long enough for you to use "Operation: Fuck that World."  You gained 21 notoriety and 5 morale.

But seriously.  Elephants?
Elspeth is restless.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 20

Current Stats

Wood	307	Gems	94
Iron	346	Money	2366
Research	140	Mana	150
Defense	345+1000*	Notoriety	148
Stress	2%	Morale	167/180

Income - 487 + 16

*One use

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	32+20	19+10
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
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.
Outdoor Baths	90 wood, 4 gems
Spa	900 wood	Raises Helepolis' level
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:
Metal Mastery: 343
Water Mastery: 78
Razorvine:
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.
Fight Crime - Mai.  This weeks event is canceled and reduces notoriety.  Mai and Yuki may be injured.
Write in

[Serela]

Cast Foundation, cast Create Gem twice, then buy the rest of the needed gems to build the Artificer Forge. And then build it.

Edit:Woah it said 82 gems or so a minute ago, not 68 ;_; scratch that, build Outdoor Baths and cast Create Gems 7 times.

Research Metal Mastery.

[Kilgamayan]

Have Mai assist our research in Metal Mastery.

Optional: Also have Elle and Eskarina assist in that research, the latter for the actual knowledge and the former for keeping our notes organized properly. (This assumes Eskarina isn't a part of the research process by default.)

[Iced Fairy]

Sorry.  One sec, let me fix the gems.  I don't know why it's back to being wrong...

Okay fixed in both my note sets.

[Hello Purvis]

According to Indian legend, Elephants are the natural foe of dragons. Don't underestimate 'em.

>That forge sounds useful.
>Apophis should quietly invade some other build sites during the evening and have a look at what they are doing and what their blueprints are like. Alternately, perhaps we can arrange for a trip to some other notable site, such as Shinki's palace?

[MysTeariousYukari]

Maybe we should the Expanded Atlier, we have all the materials need.

> Whatever building we decide on, cast Dig and Foundation on it, discounts rule (Capitalism ho?)

> With our Noterity being high, couldn't we do things like... set up a visit to Shinki's Castle, Pandemonium?

Edit: Whoops, I misread, I thought we had 84 Gems, not 94. I change what I suggest to the Artificers Forge.

[Kilgamayan]

Artificer's Forge looks to be more useful than the Expanded Atelier, and we have all the materials necessary for it as well.

[Serela]

> Whatever building we decide on, cast Dig and Foundation on it, discounts rule (Capitalism ho?)

Not necessarily; for example, with the Artificer's Forge, Dig will save us 10 Iron for 30 Mana. But if we cast Create Gem and Gem to Iron with that 30 mana instead,  we'd get 20 Iron instead of only saving 10!

And yes, build the Artificer's Forge.

[Kasu]

Build the forge and like Purvis said, try to arrange for a trip to get Apophis some new architectural ideas.

What should we do about Elspeth?  Maybe have her work in the restaurant for a bit?

Also, research Metal Mastery and get Mai on Water Mastery.

[Hello Purvis]

Have Elspeth match proper drinks to the meals at the restaurant.

Suggestion: We have a lot of money. I suggest giving it to certain succubi in 500 golds lots and telling them to go nuts with it within the realms of their chosen crafts. For instance, give Kirala 500 golds and telling her to make something neato. Or Chou 500 golds and telling her to cook up a storm.

[Kilgamayan]

Have Elspeth assist our magic research by waiting on all those involved in the process.

Fake Edit: That also works as a suggestion.

[Kasu]

Have Elspeth match proper drinks to the meals at the restaurant.

Suggestion: We have a lot of money. I suggest giving it to certain succubi in 500 golds lots and telling them to go nuts with it within the realms of their chosen crafts. For instance, give Kirala 500 golds and telling her to make something neato. Or Chou 500 golds and telling her to cook up a storm.

This sounds like it could lead to something good.  Lets try it.

[Hello Purvis]

For extra joy, allow them use of Hibachi to get the most out of their golds.

Though in Hibachi's case, I imagine this would be a good way to level her up. Give her 500 golds and tell her to go try some things, see what happens. Let her learn through experience.

[Iced Fairy]

Current Breakdown:

Build - Artificers Forge

Research - Metal Mastery

Cast - Foundation (Dig?)

1) Mai - assist research in Metal Mastery. (Alt - Water Mastery)
2) Apophis - Plagiarize!
3) Elspeth - Drink menu for the resturant?
4) Kirala - $500 spending spree
5) Chou - $500 spending Spree
6+7) Elle + Eskarina help with Metal Mastery
8 ) Hibachi - $500 capitalism spree

Notes:
Mai is an Ice mage, so she receives a bonus to water studies.  However spells have no intrinsic value until you finish researching them so....

$500 is a lot of money to the average person.  To give an idea of scale, your mansion is already bigger then the SDM (or it would be were it not for time/space hax).  While Kirala and Hibachi can definitely spend all of it, Chou's going to have to go 'kitchen stadium' or 'cakes with actual gold leaf' to blow it all in a week.

[Kilgamayan]

Okay, have Mai dig into Water Mastery, have Elle help us and have Eskarina help Mai. If one finishes, have that team move on to help the other. If both finish, move everyone on to Fire Mastery.

[MysTeariousYukari]

I can never remember, is our Private Action limit 7 or 8?

If 7, maybe we should drop the Cooks $500 spending-fest. Between the Cook and, say, Apophis, we benefit far more from a level to Apophis(reduced building cost) then to the Cook(more income, lower rate of bored Devils).

Or initial Time Limit on the Research for Patchy was the stuff we finished a while ago, correct? Did Patchy get our research stuff, or have we yet to hand it in?

[Kilgamayan]

We get 8, thanks to Elspeth.

[Iced Fairy]

8 is the correct limit.

Or initial Time Limit on the Research for Patchy was the stuff we finished a while ago, correct? Did Patchy get our research stuff, or have we yet to hand it in?

Patchouli will be collecting the research on week 26.

[Hello Purvis]

$500 is a lot of money to the average person.  To give an idea of scale, your mansion is already bigger then the SDM (or it would be were it not for time/space hax).  While Kirala and Hibachi can definitely spend all of it, Chou's going to have to go 'kitchen stadium' or 'cakes with actual gold leaf' to blow it all in a week.

Yeah, that's the point. Have a shitload of money to go nuts with. In the case of Chou, I would expect crazy fancy things "we fed this duck nothing but healing potions" style stuff.

Also,  once we finish mastering the metal, we'll help Mai with water this week?

[mad]

Cast foundation, dig and create a gem

[Serela]

Nooo, do not cast Dig. It would be inefficient. We'd spend 30 mana to save 10 iron when we could instead cast Create Gem+GemtoIron for 30 mana and create 20 iron.
 
So, cast Create Gem twice, and then... Gem to something.

[Hello Purvis]

Listen to dat Serela.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 20 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "Ferra's been slobbering over this one for weeks, so we might as well fix it up."

You build an Artificers Forge

Ferra: "Excellent.  With this I can craft anything!  Er given enough time and money."

Ferra: "More specifically I can make tools to help everyone at their jobs."

For $1000 and 5 gems Ferra can raise the level of any devil once as an action.

Research Phase

Metal Mastery: Complete

Yuki: "Ah ha!  This is the spell matrix I'd need to use to duplicate Patchouli's Philosopher's Stone!  Of course I'd need the other 4 elements as well, then find a way to tie them together.  But then I'd be able to turn lead into gold.  And boost my magic."

Spells:

Yuki: "Building spell.  One gem for me, one gem for the other spell."
Made 1 gem 20 iron and reduced the forge cost.

Special Actions

1) Elle - Research aide

Elle: "Here's the notes you were using yesterday Miss Yuki."

57
Elle adds 17 research to your work on metal mastery completing the spell.

2+3) Mai and Eskarina - Research Water Mastery.

Mai: ":<"

Eskarina: "Ehehe, oops."

50, 7
Mai adds 100 research to Water Mastery.  Eskarina fails and burns $37 in the process.

4) Apophis - Plagiarize!

Apophis: "Oh, I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk..."

29
Gained ideas worth 10 wood.

5) Elspeth - Drink menu for the resturant?

Elspeth: "Hm...  While 'Shotglass' knows the proper mixed drinks, I do believe I have a few better options for the wine list."

71
Income boost = to notoriety / 10

6) Kirala - $500 spending spree

Kirala: "Check out what I found!  It's apparently the eye of some sorta dead god.  Sauren or something."

Yuki: "It looks kinda evil there."

Kirala: "I know!  I figured we could put it in a tower and use it to burn the unworthy."

Yuki: "I think it might be trying to possess you there."

90
You found the Eye of Sauron.  You can use it to boost defense by 100 at the cost of 100 notoriety or to smash it into 30 gems and never speak of this again.

7) Chou - $500 spending Spree

Chou - "...and the reason the frosting twinkles is because it's sprinkled with diamond dust."

33
Chou made $33 profit off the 500 investment.

8 ) Hibachi - $500 capitalism spree

Hibachi: "I have good news, bad news, and news that I'm not sure how you'll react to."

Yuki: "Spill it."

Hibachi: "I made $2316, crashed the iron market, and we own the immortal souls of everyone at the bingo parlor last night."

Yuki: "What."

Gained $2316 and 30 notoriety.  Iron can't be bought or sold.

Yuki stared at the distant flames in concern.  She could feel the wind picking up, and the dead grass outside was still dryish from the drought.

Mai shook her head in annoyance.

"Yeah, we don't really have the ambient power to get a good thunderstorm going," Yuki replied.  "We should start setting up a fire break."

Mai sighed and nodded then started freezing the walls.  Hopefully that would keep the mansion itself safe.

Yuki took off towards the fields.  She'd start using her own flames to make a fire break.

***

The firestorm was insane.  Yuki was amazed that they'd managed to hold it at bay so well.

Mai's ice had melted away long ago, but she was creating cold water for the massive pump and hose array Eskarina had brought out.  Meanwhile Joan and Elspeth were helping Heather get the livestock to safety, while Alouette directed Elminia and Ruby to put out the smaller fires that moved into the area.

Yuki closed her eyes and felt the flames.  It seemed like they were starting to subside a little.  Or at least move on.  These walls of wood resisted their hunger like iron.  It was time for the fire to leave.

Feeling that she could safely leave the defense of the manor to her familiars she moved inside, where another minor issue awaited.

In the lobby were the foolish resturant customers who had decided to visit here despite the blaze, and those people living nearby that didn't have magically reinforced homes with moats to protect them.  Currently Chou and Hibachi were keeping order.

Yuki wanted to help her neighbors out, if for no other reason then to keep them from needing to steal from her.  But the fools who'd come here for a bite to eat should probably be fleeced for all they were worth.  Of course Hibachi was good at that.  All Yuki needed to do was seperate the two groups...

Event:
Firestorm outside!  The moat and walls, in addition to your enchantments prevented the blaze from damaging your home.
Repairs to your fields and aqueduct cost $221.  Gained 10 notoriety
This weeks work caused 7 stress.
"Shotglass" is restless.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 21

Current Stats

Wood	309	Gems	14
Iron	206	Money	3992
Research	140	Mana	150
Defense	345+1000*	Notoriety	187
Stress	9%	Morale	167/180

Income - 487 + 36

*One use

First post for current devil list

Market

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

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
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
Outdoor Baths	90 wood, 4 gems
Spa	900 wood	Raises Helepolis' level
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:
Water Mastery: 178
Razorvine:
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

[Kilgamayan]

Suggest smashing the eye instead of using it, I don't think we're in that dire need of defense.

Level Sakaki or Ferra first? Leaning Sakaki even with the iron market crash.

[Serela]

Smash the eye, with the gems we'll build an Expanded Atlier.

Level Kirala with the special ability. The gain in wood/iron we can get from transmuting the additional gems is likely bigger then the bonus we'd get from directly boosting wood/iron production. Then again, we might start getting into surpluses of gems soon, and we can only transmute 15 per turn at most... for now.

Okay, don't level Kirala. Level whichever devil makes Wood. Sakaki, I think?

Research Fire Mastery, have Mai and Eskarina research Water Mastery!

Edit:Oh, transmute gems to wood is only 5 mana, not 10! Level Kirala. Definitely.

[Hello Purvis]

Smash the eye.

Perhaps it's time to have Hibachi rebuild the iron market and center it on us?

[MysTeariousYukari]

IcedFairy: If we use the Level action we gained from the forge then used the Demonic Summoning on Ferra, could we use the forge's Level action again?

Will the iron market ever start back up again? Or is it dead for the remainder of this awesome game?

How much is our Noterity affect the price of Wood? Like, what would it cost to buy if we had 0 Noterity rather then our current amount?

> I say we smash the Eye, we don't need Defense that badly. The Gems however are very helpful.
> We should turn a few Gems into Wood, with 40 wood per gem, if we use 4 Gems, we can build almost anything.
> Ruby goes hunting for a place we could get plenty of materials from.
> Shotglass and Helepolis help us relax with some nice alchohol and a massage
> We level a devil through the forge, and if IcedFairy says it's allowable, we use Demonic Summoning to be able to use the forge level-up again, on another devil. I suggest Hibachi or the Doctor as one of the 2.

Is the devil Helepolis Female, like the rest? Cause I keep picturing the guy Purvis had as his avatar as the devil Helepolis :V

[Iced Fairy]

IcedFairy: If we use the Level action we gained from the forge then used the Demonic Summoning on Ferra, could we use the forge's Level action again?

Yep.  That's one of the things the spell exists for.

Will the iron market ever start back up again? Or is it dead for the remainder of this awesome game?

The iron market has a slight chance to recover that increases each week.

How much is our Noterity affect the price of Wood? Like, what would it cost to buy if we had 0 Noterity rather then our current amount?

Wood started at 25.

Is the devil Helepolis Female, like the rest? Cause I keep picturing the guy Purvis had as his avatar as the devil Helepolis :V

The succubi all default to female.  It's their preferred form.