Succubus Manor - A sim magician game.

[Janitor Morgan]

Actually, now that Yuki and Mai are aware of us, we need to distract them for a while; let's drop some Yuki/Mai doujinshi or fanfiction on Ruby while she's adventuring. [/joking]

This is where the portal to MotK would come in if we were building it.

[Serela]

I find it incredibly ironic that they can only overcome us if we specifically direct them to do so.

[Iced Fairy]

Build:
Artwork
Tower

Research:
Research for Patchouli

Cast:
Summon Ferra and Elspeth, 6 gems to iron, make 2 gems.

1 - Ruby Questing for Gems
2+3 - Ferra - Build for Elle and Alouette
4 - Shotglass - Dojo Bar Busting
5) Hibachi - $4000 to wheel and deal
6) Elspeth - Hibachi and Ruby
7+8) Glenda and Maya Tour
9) Fight crime
10+11) Mai and Eskarina aid research
12) Kirala trains gem cutting

Two over

Side Note:  Win Game might just take a bit of research and Mana.  Maybe.

And on nonsensical matters:

I suddenly wonder if building a planar portal to MotK is possible, now that we've researched Break 4th Wall.

If you do this I promise they will set Purvis on fire.  And others as well.

Actually, now that Yuki and Mai are aware of us, we need to distract them for a while; let's drop some Yuki/Mai doujinshi or fanfiction on Ruby while she's adventuring. [/joking]

First you would have to find such a thing.

I find it incredibly ironic that they can only overcome us if we specifically direct them to do so.

I find it incredibly amusing you are considering directing them to do so.

[Sect]

Why not split research between Patchy's research and lost the Win Game, then? It's not like there isn't enough time. Oh, and start storing mana in gems?

[Janitor Morgan]

If you do this I promise they will set Purvis on fire.  And others as well.

But his overcoat gives him superhuman fire resistance, as well as resistance to cold, so I think he could handle them nicely.

Also resistance to the devils' advances.

[Hello Purvis]

Let's drop Kirala's training, and drop fight crime. I wanna see what happens!

But his overcoat gives him superhuman fire resistance, as well as resistance to cold, so I think he could handle them nicely.

Also resistance to the devils' advances.

=3

I had a good larf.

[Kasu]

Let's drop Kirala's training, and drop fight crime. I wanna see what happens!

Agreed.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Let's drop Kirala's training, and drop fight crime. I wanna see what happens!

Thirded

[Iced Fairy]

Week 35 Results

Build Phase

Alouette: "We've added some nice art to the mansion.  Mostly Kirala's works but some independant stuff as well."

Alouette increases morale gains by 3.

You added a defense tower.

Research Phase

Yuki: "Alright, time for some payback.  Er, and required work"

Research for Patchouli: 164

Win Game: 145

Eskarina: "This may take some time...."

Spells:

Elspeth: "I hope this doesn't become a weekly occurence.  No offense mistress, but I'd like a break at some point."

Ferra: "Yeah, I'm starting to annoy myself."

Summoned Ferra and Elspeth.  Turned 6 gems to iron and made 2 gems.

Special Actions

1) Ruby - hunt gems

Ruby: "Okay, I think I've figured this out.  If I kill 17 boars, then move to cheetahs..."

Ruby gained 26 gems grinding low level instances.

2+3) Ferra - Artifacts for Elle and Alouette

Ferra: "For Elle, a Dis-organizer."

Elle: "Oh!  Is this the one that plans my future events?  I've been looking for one of these."

Elle blocks 3 stress.

Ferra: "And for Alouette a RPG supliment book.  Apparently this lets you use any die in your bag instead of a d6 for Maid rolls.  Whatever those are."

Alouette: "Thank you Ferra.  I'll go borrow Eskarina's d34."

Alouette can accomplish almost anything, though asking for too much may cause side effects.

4) "Shotglass" - Bar busting

"Shotglass": "It was... Insane!  They carved the glasses from ice.  They juggled the bottles perfectly.  They could slide the drink to the right seat down the bar without looking...."

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"Shotglass" was awed.  She has sequestered herself to train.

5) Hibachi- $4000 to wheel and deal

Hibachi: "Short term investments are getting harder.  Maybe I should do something mid term."

+6000 income next week.

6+7) Elsepeth - Help Hibachi and Ruby

Elspeth: "It's pretty easy to plan things out for these two."

8+9) Glenda and Maya - tour

Glenda: "We did a Kabuki tour this time."

Maya: "It was... intense."

Yuki: "No more.  I don't want to know."

Gained $641

10+11) Mai and Eskarina help research

Mai: "Split the work."

Eskarina: "Agreed."

Gained +41 + 61 research

There was a knock on the door.  Yuki sighed.  "Must be this weeks event," she muttered as she opened it.

Elle stood there with a confused look on her face.  "Um, I think you probably want to know about this..." 

She held up the Dis-organizer which chimed *bing biddly beep* "One o'clock, fight off waves of summoned monsters."

Yuki swore as, predictably, the clock began struck one.  Then the defense towers started firing.

"Wonderful."

---

Yuki stood next to Joan surveying the carnage.  "So what's the situation?"

Joan pointed at a hill just out of spell range.  "Well it looks like those idiots that nearly busted up our mansion are over there."  There was a green flash at the place.  "And they're summoning monsters to test our defenses.  Seems like they don't want to mess with the turrets directly."

"Can they get past the turrets?" Yuki asked.  She didn't want to deal with those douchebags again.

Elspeth moved up.  "It's likely they can.  If they get enough monsters in nearby cover, they can safely teleport in while using those monsters to distract the turrets.  However Eskarina has a plan to stop that."  The maid pointed to where Eskarina was working on one of the two massive towers.

Yuki flew over right as Eskarina finished screwing on a focus mirror.  "There!"  The scientist looked over.  "Ah Miss Yuki!  I think I found a way to keep the monsters out!"

"Wouldn't the turrets do that normally?" Yuki asked.

"Not fast enough to stop all of them.  However I've developed an add on for the towers!  By adding these focus mirrors I can send a weaker blast of energy to an area of the battlefield without using up all the towers power.  With enough focus mirrors we can immitate a battery of defense towers that can pick off all the enemies."  She smiled.  "Also we should be able to use your power, as well as miss Mai's, to create fire and ice sub towers."

"But won't that keep them from being one shot kills?" Yuki asked.

Eskarina nodded.  "Sure but we can burn out the focus mirrors to get that back if those adventurers start getting too close."

Yuki nodded.  "Alright.  I want you to work with Elspeth to get a real time model working so we can best plan our defense.  Mai and I will indicate where these sub towers need to be made."

"Roger!"

---

"Well that was a waste of a day," Yuki muttered.

Mai nodded.

Elminia handed them some drinks.  "Still we did beat their army.  Without a lot of casualties this time."

"That's something I suppose," Yuki replied.

"I wonder if these weekly interuptions will stop when we deal with those responsible," Alouette mused.

Yuki sighed.  "One can only hope."

Event:Creeps.  Lots of Creeps.  The defenses handled them easily though.
+5 notoriety
This weeks work caused 2 stress.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 36

Current Stats

Wood	1591	Gems	313
Iron	228	Money	5000
Research	185	Mana	200
Defense	380	Notoriety	229
Stress	8%	Morale	177/180

Income - 3261 + 38 +6000

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	40	29
Gems	120	100
Iron	48	37

Build - You can build the following structures:

High class Resturant	818 wood, 140 iron	Raises Chou's Level
Clock Tower	3250 wood, 3250 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.
Win Game:
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+15 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 - Elspeth.  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

[MysTeariousYukari]

^_^ That was awesome.

Just to be certain, will Planar Portal take a build slot?

Looking at things, I think we should Build another Turret, and the High Class Resturant(didn't we build this earlier? or was the the basic?)

I vote, just for the sake of getting it out of our hair, to dump research into Research for Patchy. Through our aided research actions we end up getting an extra 40+ research per week, thats 225+ a week. May as well dump into Patchy this week, and if it's close enough to completion, the week after we split again.

For the Gems to *Mat* spells, we should put a bit more focus into Iron. Unless finishing all paths brings the Clock Towers price down THAT much, we will need to grind Iron

I feel we should drop Hibachi's wheel-and-deal, and if anything, spend 500-2000 on getting Iron and/or Gems.

[Iced Fairy]

Looking at things, I think we should Build another Turret, and the High Class Resturant(didn't we build this earlier? or was the the basic?)

That was the basic restaurant.

I vote, just for the sake of getting it out of our hair, to dump research into Research for Patchy.

As a note, Patchouli's research will take at least double what it did last time and is due on week 78.

[mad]

Build the Restaurant

Research Patchouli's Research

convert 17 gems to iron make 1 wood

1) Shotglass trains

2) Elspeth supports her

3) Apophis builds a defense tower

4) Ruby hunts gems

5 + 6) Mai and Eskarina aid research

7) fights crime

8 + 9) Glenda and Maya go on tour

[Sect]

10) Alouette fights Ramirez

[Kasu]

^_^ That was awesome.

Just to be certain, will Planar Portal take a build slot?

Looking at things, I think we should Build another Turret, and the High Class Resturant(didn't we build this earlier? or was the the basic?)

I vote, just for the sake of getting it out of our hair, to dump research into Research for Patchy. Through our aided research actions we end up getting an extra 40+ research per week, thats 225+ a week. May as well dump into Patchy this week, and if it's close enough to completion, the week after we split again.

For the Gems to *Mat* spells, we should put a bit more focus into Iron. Unless finishing all paths brings the Clock Towers price down THAT much, we will need to grind Iron

I feel we should drop Hibachi's wheel-and-deal, and if anything, spend 500-2000 on getting Iron and/or Gems.

Build the Restaurant
Research Patchouli's Research
convert 17 gems to iron make 1 wood
1) Shotglass trains
2) Elspeth supports her
3) Apophis builds a defense tower
4) Ruby hunts gems
5 + 6) Mai and Eskarina aid research
7) fights crime
8 + 9) Glenda and Maya go on tour

All of this sounds good, although if those jerks are back, we may want to focus on getting gems for the barrier.

[MysTeariousYukari]

All of this sounds good, although if those jerks are back, we may want to focus on getting gems for the barrier.

Actually....

IcedFairy: When was our previous/original encounter with those warriors/jerks/whatever guys?

If we are that worried about encountering them again, we could Fight Crime till we get the Barrier/double digit Def Towers.

[Iced Fairy]

IcedFairy: When was our previous/original encounter with those warriors/jerks/whatever guys?

About 10 weeks ago.

As a note there's only so many defense towers that can be added.  You think there's only room for 2 more.

[Kasu]

About 10 weeks ago.

As a note there's only so many defense towers that can be added.  You think there's only room for 2 more.

Crap.

I still think we should stock up on gems for that barrier.

[Janitor Morgan]

I still think a portal to MotK would be interesting to toy with.

Perhaps after we've got enough for the Clock Tower/can cast Win Game, we can try that, since the game's pretty much set by that point anyhow.

[Serela]

I think we've got to research Win Game to make the portal anyway, seeing as once a portal is made, there wouldn't be a whole lot stopping them from beating the everliving shit out of us.

A bigger issue is which ending we want to get, really  :V

[Janitor Morgan]

[18:32] <PurvisHasLeftThisTimestreamNWS> *If it's there to build, we build it*
[18:32] <PurvisHasLeftThisTimestreamNWS> *Then send Ruby to loot it*

I wonder if the loot she'd bring back would keep them from overrunning us or make them fight harder. :ohdear:

[Kasu]

[18:32] <PurvisHasLeftThisTimestreamNWS> *If it's there to build, we build it*
[18:32] <PurvisHasLeftThisTimestreamNWS> *Then send Ruby to loot it*

I wonder if the loot she'd bring back would keep them from overrunning us or make them fight harder. :ohdear:

Oh man.  Now we HAVE to do this.

[Hello Purvis]

We ain't won yet.

We got the Nethack Heroes to deal with yet. And them dudes are probably alchemizing, blessing, and quaffing potions of full healing right now.

And god help us if they get a wand of fire and inscribe Elbereth. Or Graywandir...

[Janitor Morgan]

All the more reason for the portal. They could come over here and get you and UK to help them out.

...That, or just play by different game mechanics, since we've broken the fourth wall and all.

[Iced Fairy]

Current Plans:

Build:
High Class Restaurant
Defense Tower

Research
Patchouli's Research is currently favored over Win Game

Cast:
convert 17 gems to iron make 1 wood

Special
1) "Shotglass" - train

2) Elspeth - support "Shotglass"

3) Apophis - build a defense tower

4) Ruby - hunt gems

5+6) Mai + Eskarina - aid research

7) Fight crime

8 + 9) Glenda and Maya - tour

Other thoughts include building a portal to MotK and looting the place.  Sadly without Win Game, they can only enter alternate universe MotK (like the library verse).  They can however loot the place.  These actions would replace some special actions, and cost mana and gems.

[Kasu]

The current plan looks good for now.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 36 Results

Build Phase

Sakaki: "GOt the Resturant upgraded.  That's almost everything right now."

Chou: "Thanks!  This will allow me to cook for large parties easily."

Chou now makes $360 income.

You added a defense tower.

Research Phase

Research for Patchouli: 457

Yuki: "So much paperwork and term definition.  So boring...."

Spells:

Yuki: "Huh, been a while since I didn't distort space and time.  Better not get overreliant on that spell."

17 gems to iron and made 1 wood.

Special Actions

1) "Shotglass" - train

"Shotglass": "I... I've done it!"

"Shotglass": "Behold!  The ultimate fruity girl drink."

Yuki: "I... don't believe it.  I actually want to drink this."

Mai: "..."

Stress cleansed

2) Elspeth - support "Shotglass"

Elspeth: "Let's see, that should open up Nash Crosby's Still..."

Mai: "...."

Elspeth: "What?  Oh no, "Shotglass" came up on that all by herself.  I didn't need to do anything."

3) Apophis - build a defense tower

Apophis: "Hm... I should give it a really unnerving charge up noise."

4) Ruby - hunt gems

Ruby: "This is boring..."

Ruby: "I know!  I'll steal your gems back from where ever they get sent when you use them in a spell!"

Retreived your 17 gems.  Marie prevented an injury.

5+6) Mai + Eskarina - aid research

Mai: "...."

Eskarina: "Hm...  It's weird writing about myself."

Gained +52 + 56 research

7 + Glenda and Maya - tour

Glenda: "So in order to get the insurance money he tried to scare everyone off!"

Maya: "That's where the ghost of the shrine maiden came from!"

Old man McGregor: "And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling devils!  And that pesky bat too!"

Glenda and Maya cuaght the criminal!  But the show still didn't play so there was no money....

9) Fight crime

Event

Yuki took deep breaths as she steadied herself.  She didn't approve of this nonsense.  The only reason she was down here was because the secret lair had a really nice gym.  And she was only in costume so Elspeth wouldn't comment on it.  Normally she didn't bother with such things, but, well... Chou was a REALLY good cook.  And Yuki had her pride.

She'd just finished up and was heading towards the showers, when she caugh movement from the corner of her eye.  Turning she swore she saw something sneak behind a stalagmite.

Normal people would have thought it was a rat.  But Elspeth was too much of a stickler for cleanlyness to allow such things to last long.

Yuki called upon her subtler magics to give her the echolocation abilities of a bat.  She gave a supersonic squeek, and listened for it's return.

The results surprised her.  There was a large pool behind the rock.  That wasn't supposed to be there.

Yuki readied an attack spell and moved to see behind the rock.  She almost thought she'd misheard things when a tendril of darkness flowed out at her and slammed her backwards.  She tumbled across the ground.

She'd probably aquired a good deal of bruises, but even someone who'd stuck with danmaku battles knew to move after taking a hit.  She rolled to the side and leaped up into the air as another tendril struck at the area.

To her surprise the ooze creature flowed up into a humanoid form.  "I was here for White Fox, but you will do just as well Black Cat.  That annoyance's raid last night has set me back millions.  I'll take it out of your hide."

"Yeah sure.  Why don't I just boil you," Yuki said as she tossed a massive wave of fire across the room.

To her annoyance the creature dodged.  "Hrm...  Your magics are strong.  But alone you shall fall to Flowze."  It struck out with several more pseudopod, which Yuki was forced to dodge, while returning fire.

After the initial surprises though Yuki had the upper hand.  Her opponents attacks could target better, but Yuki could burn him if he over extended.  She began to push the monstrosity back.

"The white fox will be down here any second," Yuki stated.  "Then you won't be able to run."

"Hshhhh!  So it seems.  But I have another strategy."  The creature suddenly turned and ran.

Right towards where Elspeth was.

Yuki flew after as fast as she could but when she arrived she found she was too late.  'Flowze' had it's tentacles around Elspeth's neck, while Mai stood fuming to the side.  "Now," the creature said.  "Take off the mask or I break the devil's neck."

"You won't get away with this!" Mai said, reaching for her mask.

Suddenly there was a distortion and Elspeth appeared behind Mai.  "Sorry.  It took me some time to manage the teleportation magic without being able to speak."

Yuki and Mai didn't bother replying they just froze then blew apart the monstrosity.

Yuki sighed.  "Well I guess we better hunt down and finish off this thing's gang."

Mai nodded.  "Indeed.  Such villainy can not be allowed to persist.  And we'd best refreeze this thing and drop it into a portal to someplace... unpleasant as well."

Elspeth nodded.  "I'll get right on it"

Event:A crime boss got angry at you.  But they were no problem.
No effects
This weeks work caused 0 stress.

[Iced Fairy]

Week 37

Current Stats

Wood	932	Gems	384
Iron	486	Money	14431
Research	185	Mana	200
Defense	405	Notoriety	229
Stress	-10%	Morale	180/180

Income - 3393 + 38

First post for current devil list

Market

Asset	Buy Price	Sell Price
Wood	40	29
Gems	120	100
Iron	48	37

Build - You can build the following structures:

Clock Tower	3000 wood, 3000 iron	The Finishing Touch.  Wins the game.  Prince decreases as other build paths are completed.
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.
Win Game: 197
Research for Patchouli: 457

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+15 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 - Elspeth.  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

[Janitor Morgan]

Suggestions:
--Build defense tower
--Chou tries to invent The Wok of Ages a better cooking technique

...Yeah, I don't really know what to do.  :/

[Sect]

When should we go ahead with the Super Devil Summon (summon 4+ of the same devil)? I mean, Yuki's at -10% stress right now, so OBVIOUSLY she's a bit too tipsy from Shotglass's new drink to realize that it might be a bad idea.