What is with All These Corpses, Princess?: Let's Play Long Live the Queen

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Super Jay Mann: Nov 6, 2008

MegaZeroX posted:

[i]The only skills that have penalties when yielding are weapons (sorry Super Jay Mann) and lumen, which we can't even learn right now. Best of all, we can finally get the royal demeanor Elodie needs.

Emotional manipulation won't stop me so easily! Let's go Military x2

# ? Feb 16, 2014 02:21

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 17:44

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

MegaZeroX posted:

Luckily for us, she is still able to learn accounting just fine.

Elodie learned 5th grade math!

What has Elodie been doing during the first 14 years of her life? Don't they teach anything at that boarding school of hers?

# ? Feb 16, 2014 02:22

GrizzlyCow: May 30, 2011

JosephWongKS posted:

What has Elodie been doing during the first 14 years of her life? Don't they teach anything at that boarding school of hers?

We all know that school didn't tech Elodie nothing about life. However, I figure most forms of mathematics is probably above everyone who isn't an academic or engineer considering the setting. Elodie's new found ability to add together numbers with a sum larger than 10 without taking off the royal crocs is a great party trick.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 02:31

Pittsburgh Lambic: Feb 16, 2011

GrizzlyCow posted:

We all know that school didn't tech Elodie nothing about life. However, I figure most forms of mathematics is probably above everyone who isn't an academic or engineer considering the setting. Elodie's new found ability to add together numbers with a sum larger than 10 without taking off the royal crocs is a great party trick.

Considering that Elodie killed the printing press, she'll probably be the only person in Nova with access to decent mathematics textbooks for about a century.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 02:45

Happy Blue: Oct 18, 2012

Composure and Elegance.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 03:39

Taran_Wanderer: Nov 4, 2013

Presence and Elegance.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 05:04

Penakoto: Aug 21, 2013

Presence X 2, if we're (finally) going to get violent, we should also get intimidating.

As intimidating as a 14 year old anime princess can get, anyways.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 05:06

Pittsburgh Lambic: Feb 16, 2011

Penakoto posted:

Presence X 2, if we're (finally) going to get violent, we should also get intimidating.

As intimidating as a 14 year old anime princess can get, anyways.

As the adventures of the Ixionite diplomat taught us, presence is less about looking intimidating to somebody and more about having that somebody discover that we've beheaded all his friends and loved ones and are planting the heads in unexpected and hilarious locations around his home. Let's learn how to do that, presence x2.

Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Feb 16, 2014

# ? Feb 16, 2014 05:28

Zikan: Feb 29, 2004

Presence x2

# ? Feb 16, 2014 06:35

MiracleFlare: Mar 27, 2012

We sent a present to Ixion, so we better get twice the presence back.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 07:28

ddegenha: Jan 28, 2009; What is this?!

There's something incredibly chilling about a princess that orders a man executed and then locks herself away in her bedroom to play with her childhood toys all weekend.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 07:35

dizaero: Jan 30, 2012; CORRECT ANSWER
YUO ARE SMART

My friend gifted me this game for Valentine's Day. Yes, its a strange gift for a straight male to give to another straight male but hey, free poo poo is cool. I played a couple of times when it was originally released, both resulting in bad endings. Since I'm not very good at Anime Princess Simulator 2014, I wanna play along with you goons. I caught up to thread just now, making the exact moves.

Presence sounds like a good thing. I kinda want some crystal for some Lumen poo poo. Presence x2

# ? Feb 16, 2014 08:40

ArchangeI: Jul 15, 2010

Presence x2

# ? Feb 16, 2014 11:45

my dad: Oct 17, 2012; this shall be humorous

ddegenha posted:

There's something incredibly chilling about a princess that orders a man executed and then locks herself away in her bedroom to play with her childhood toys all weekend.

Yeah, that just had me :stare:

# ? Feb 16, 2014 14:45

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

Oh, he lost his head. :toot:

I'm voting for ~~Essence~~ Presence x2.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 16:07

Mikl: Nov 8, 2009; Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Presence x2.

I finally caved and bought this game. My first death was something to behold. Seeing all the successive "(Skill) check -> FAILED" was like watching a slow-motion trainwreck.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 16:24

ViggyNash: Oct 9, 2012

Each one a stab to the heart as your beloved princess approaches her inevitable end.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 16:45

kaosdrachen: Aug 15, 2011

GrizzlyCow posted:

We all know that school didn't tech Elodie nothing about life. However, I figure most forms of mathematics is probably above everyone who isn't an academic or engineer considering the setting. Elodie's new found ability to add together numbers with a sum larger than 10 without taking off the royal crocs is a great party trick.

Bear in mind that she didn't have the chance to finish school -- she was yanked out back to the palace by her father when her mom died.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 19:05

jonjonaug: Mar 26, 2010; by Lowtax

I just cleared what I believe to be about 100% of the game (all achievements, all ending varieties the game tracks plus a few more that it doesn't because it considers a lot of them "repeats") and I'm kinda blown away by it. Now I'm a little disappointed there'll only be two more playthroughs. I would never have gone back to it if this LP didn't exist, so thanks for making it.

Presence x2 sounds good with the current skill gain setup.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 19:14

Zikan: Feb 29, 2004

kaosdrachen posted:

Bear in mind that she didn't have the chance to finish school -- she was yanked out back to the palace by her father when her mom died.

It's still the worst school in history, especially considering that the european nobility this game is based around would have learned a great deal of stuff at a young age due to people not living as long and taking the throne at 16 or whatever. Granted a lot of it was useless for ruling, like riding horses or how to sing.

Elodie literally can't do anything well at the start of the game (literally does not how to add numbers in her head or sing "do re mi fa sol la ti"). I've consider doing a gimmick run were I set her skills via debug console at what an actual good school would have her at her age level, considering that she's the loving heir to the whole kingdom and all.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 19:20

Ekster: Jul 18, 2013

She was just a really lazy student, only motivated by the threat of death.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 19:29

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

jonjonaug posted:

I just cleared what I believe to be about 100% of the game (all achievements, all ending varieties the game tracks plus a few more that it doesn't because it considers a lot of them "repeats") and I'm kinda blown away by it.

That's pretty impressive. I've only managed four attempts myself, but I did at least made four different deaths. :v:

Poil fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Feb 16, 2014

# ? Feb 16, 2014 19:48

MegaZeroX: Dec 11, 2013; "I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"

Voting is closed.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:00

MegaZeroX: Dec 11, 2013; "I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"

Again, the winner is obvious, so points aren't calculated this time.

Class

Presence: 27

Elegance: 5

Military: 2

Internal Affairs: 1

Composure: 1

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:00

MegaZeroX: Dec 11, 2013; "I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"

Woman: Thank you for seeing me, Your Royal Highness. I... I come to you on behalf of the people. I wish to build a hospital where any citizen afflicted with disease can be brought for treatment.

We are not interested.

:doh:

Going into the treasury would make Elodie's strongest emotion angry, so we will have to wait until next weekend to see if we have enough presence to get past the gaurds.

Same as always. What classes should Elodie take? Voting is closed.

MegaZeroX fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 17, 2014

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:22

ViggyNash: Oct 9, 2012

Accounting to make sure we have enough, ~~then ciphering to bring it up to speed with the other spy skills~~ changed my mind, elegance now that we have the bonus.

ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Feb 17, 2014

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:28

Super Jay Mann: Nov 6, 2008

So Elodie has managed to push back both the Renaissance and significant advances in health care and medicine by years, possibly decades, in the course of roughly a month.

...Oh well, who cares as long as we can kill people better. Military x2

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:36

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

Internal Affairs all the way all the time. So close to 100 now.

Turning down the hospital while wearing a monocle is just so perfect. :allears:

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:37

DLord: Apr 28, 2013

Trade, we need to know how to make money, to pay for our armies.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:38

Mikl: Nov 8, 2009; Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Lore x2.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:41

Penakoto: Aug 21, 2013

Presence and Elegance, need to take advantage of royal demeanor having a bonus for once.

# ? Feb 16, 2014 23:58

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Presence and Elegance. Yielding is a precious mood and we shouldn't waste it.

pospysyl posted:

Finally, we can get some demeanor skills. It's strange that we have to be yielding in order to learn how to speak with authority, at least to me.

Think of it as willful being the "gently caress you dad!" mood(which is why it also has a bonus to Lumen) and yielding being the "alright, fine, I'll do what dad wants me to do :sigh:

" mood(which is also why it has a penalty to Lumen).

# ? Feb 17, 2014 00:15

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

What we know at this point in time

Moods posted:

Afraid
Bonus to: Agility, Faith
Penalty to: Royal Demeanour, Weapons, Intrigue, Military

Depressed
Bonus to: Expression, Animal Handling
Penalty to: Royal Demeanour, Conversation, Athletics

Willful
Bonus to: Intrigue, Military, Lumen
Penalty to: Royal Demeanour, History, Economics

Angry
Bonus to: Weapons, Military
Penalty to: Royal Demeanour, Expression, Animal Handling, Medicine

Yielding
Bonus to: Royal Demeanour, History, Faith
Penalty to: Weapons, Lumen

Named Characters posted:

Joslyn - King Dowager of Nova / Duke of Caloris

Elodie - Crown Princess of Nova

Lucille - Countess of Nix / Duchess-Consort of Merva

Internal Affairs 20: Your maternal uncle�s wife, the Countess Nix, claims kinship to the old Merva line and originally asked your mother for title to the Duchy. However, no one could verify her lineage. As a compromise, your mother created her brother Duke of Merva.

Laurent - Duke of Merva

Internal Affairs 10: Until you have children of your own, your maternal uncle, the Duke of Merva, is next in line for the crown, and after him would be his daughter, your cousin Charlotte.

Internal Affairs 20: Your maternal uncle�s wife, the Countess Nix, claims kinship to the old Merva line and originally asked your mother for title to the Duchy. However, no one could verify her lineage. As a compromise, your mother created her brother Duke of Merva.

Charlotte - Heir to the Duchy of Merva

Internal Affairs 10: Until you have children of your own, your maternal uncle, the Duke of Merva, is next in line for the crown, and after him would be his daughter, your cousin Charlotte.

Julianna - Duchess of Ursul

Internal Affairs 40: The Duke of Maree has paid suit to the Duchess of Ursul to no avail. The Duchess�s brother is opposed, as he will inherit if she dies childless. Your agents suspect the Duchess is actually more interested in the Duchess of Hellas. Neither has ever been linked to a man.

Banion - Duke of Maree

Internal Affairs 40: The Duke of Maree has paid suit to the Duchess of Ursul to no avail. The Duchess�s brother is opposed, as he will inherit if she dies childless. Your agents suspect the Duchess is actually more interested in the Duchess of Hellas. Neither has ever been linked to a man.

Internal Affairs 60: The Countess of Dis is now married to the disinherited third sibling of the Duke of Maree and the Duchess of Hellas. Currently, both Duke and Duchess are unwed. If either dies without an heir, a title may still pass to the Countess�s husband.

Alice - Chambermaid

Brin � Duchess of Hellas

Internal Affairs 40: The Duke of Maree has paid suit to the Duchess of Ursul to no avail. The Duchess�s brother is opposed, as he will inherit if she dies childless. Your agents suspect the Duchess is actually more interested in the Duchess of Hellas. Neither has ever been linked to a man.

Internal Affairs 60: The Countess of Dis is now married to the disinherited third sibling of the Duke of Maree and the Duchess of Hellas. Currently, both Duke and Duchess are unwed. If either dies without an heir, a title may still pass to the Countess�s husband.

Skills posted:

ROYAL DEMEANOUR

Composure

10: You practice deep breathing exercises, learning to find and maintain a sense of inner calm.

Elegance

Presence

10: You practise wearing the royal regalia and looking at yourself in a mirror. Young as you are, you are a queen of the blood. You are your mother's daughter. You are a force to be reckoned with.

20: You stare at yourself in the mirror and practise focusing and transmitting energy with only your eyes, turning the "intensity" of your gaze on and off at will.

30: You practise using different styles of breathing in order to feel more energetic and to let that energy surround you for others to share.

CONVERSATION

Public Speaking

Court Manners

10: You review the correct greetings for guests according to rank and when to extend your hand to another. All nobles expect their due honors.

Flattery

EXPRESSION

Decoration

Instrument

Voice

AGILITY

Dance

Reflexes

Flexibility

WEAPONS

Swords

10: You take up a wooden sword and practise correct grips and stances.

20: You practise slow swings to move your blade to precisely marked targets, building up your muscles and control.

Archery

Polearms

ANIMALS

Horses

Dogs

10: You visit the kennels and learn about different breeds of dogs.

20: You learn about dog grooming and the most common diseases and injuries that dogs suffer from.

30: You learn the standard commands for working with trained hunting dogs and retrievers.

40: You practice working with trained dogs in a small area, telling them to stay, search and fetch.

50: You choose a young puppy and begin raising him to respond to you over all others.

Falcons

HISTORY

Novan

Foreign Affairs

World

INTRIGUE

Internal Affairs

10: Until you have children of your own, your maternal uncle, the Duke of Merva, is next in line for the crown, and after him would be his daughter, your cousin Charlotte.

20: Your maternal uncle�s wife, the Countess Nix, claims kinship to the old Merva line and originally asked your mother for title to the Duchy. However, no one could verify her lineage. As a compromise, your mother created her brother Duke of Merva.

30: The last Duke of Mead was the older half brother of the current Duchess. His reign was brief and highly scandalous � he defied tradition to pledge himself as the lifemate of the old Duke of Ursul, then broke that off only a year later. He retired into seclusion and died still unwed.

40: The Duke of Maree has paid suit to the Duchess of Ursul to no avail. The Duchess�s brother is opposed, as he will inherit if she dies childless. Your agents suspect the Duchess is actually more interested in the Duchess of Hellas. Neither has ever been linked to a man.

50: Countess Lieke of Dis married the old Duke of Sudbury, who was more than twice her age, then divorced him as soon as she�d borne him an heir in order to marry another. It was considered shockingly rude by the general nobility, but the old Duke apparently had no objection.

60: The Countess of Dis is now married to the disinherited third sibling of the Duke of Maree and the Duchess of Hellas. Currently, both Duke and Duchess are unwed. If either dies without an heir, a title may still pass to the Countess�s husband.

70: Several generations back, the rulers of Elath and Sedna in neighbouring Talasse married. The citizens of Elath objected to this foreign influence, and the resulting heir died in suspicious circumstances, after which the title was passed to a distant branch of the family rather than another child of the Elath-Sedna union.

Foreign Intelligence

10: The current Duke of Sedna is twenty-six years old and unmarried. He might be considered a good marriage prospect for you if you desire stronger ties with the domain of Talasse.

20: The domain of Shanjia, across the sea to the west, has been steadily increasing in size, and now controls a wide range of coastline as well as most of the navigable rivers.

30: The political disruption in Tombula in recent years has caused a disruption in their chocolate production, which is to the benefit of Nova, particularly the duchy of Kigal.

40: Since their recent revolution, the Tombulans have twice begun gathering troops on the Novan border. Both times, their camps were struck by fierce storms and earthquakes, and they decided to give up on the idea.

50: Pirates are once again operating out of Orcus, although they are currently sticking to the northern seas and no threat to Nova. However, if they turn to slave raids, the Borealans may be quite vulnerable.

Ciphering

10: You practise reading words whose letters have been arranged in reverse order � the simplest of transpositions, which anyone literate can puzzle through if they try, but sometimes useful to hide information thg is nia lpni.

20: You practise shifting substitution ciphers, where each letter is replaced by one a few steps further along the alphabet, so that �cake and pie� becomes �fdnh dqg slh�.

30: You practise random substitution ciphers, where the normal alphabet is replaced by one in jumbled order. This is harder to decode, but most people need a written substitution chart to read or write it, and that chart can be lost or stolen.

MEDICINE

Herbs

Battlefield

Poison

10: The first treatment for most ingested poisons is to purge the stomach by forcing the victim to eat powdered charcoal, which can absorb dangerous substances.

ECONOMICS

Accounting

10: You brush up on basic mathematics with the help of an abacus.

20: You study the manipulation of larger quantities through direct calculations, using written numbers instead of an abacus.

Trade

Production

MILITARY

Strategy

Naval Strategy

Logistics

10: You learn about the types and amounts of food required for an army on the march, and how long they will remain edible.

FAITH

Meditation

Divination

Lore

MAHOU SHOUJO

Sense Magic

Resist Magic

Wield Magic

Skill Checks posted:

Week 3
Composure � Skill Level 10 was enough to pass

Week 5
Foreign Intelligence � Skill Level 15.05 was enough to pass
Court Manners � Skill Level 10.05 was enough to pass

Week 7
Elegance - Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass
Reflexes - Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass
Court Manners - Skill Level 10.05 was not enough to pass

Week 8
Production + Trade � Production 0 / Trade 0 was not enough to pass

Week 9
Foreign Affairs = Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass
Military � Strategy 0 / Naval Strategy 0 / Logistics 15.4 was enough to pass

Week 10
Novan History = Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass
Foreign Affairs = Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass
Foreign Intelligence = Skill Level 52.4 was not enough to pass
Accounting + Trade = Accounting 0 / Trade 0 was not enough to pass
Logistics = Skill Level 15.4 was not enough to pass

Week 12
Herbs + Battlefield Medicine = Herbs 0 / Battlefield Medicine 0 was not enough to pass

Weekend activity - Getting past the guards at the treasury
Accounting � Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass
Presence - Skill Level 0 was not enough to pass

# ? Feb 17, 2014 00:19

Zikan: Feb 29, 2004

Presence and Elegance

# ? Feb 17, 2014 00:26

of bees: Dec 28, 2009

Presence gets my vote again.

# ? Feb 17, 2014 00:32

Taran_Wanderer: Nov 4, 2013

Composure and Elegance. We don't want to hit the cap on Presence.

# ? Feb 17, 2014 00:34

I Said No: May 21, 2007; jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av

MegaZeroX posted:

We are not interested.

Oh christ, what a dumbass! :ughh:

Going with Presence and Elegance. If we can't be smart, we can scare the poo poo out of everyone instead.

Also Joseph, no offense intended or anything but perhaps you should edit one of your prior posts for the complete list or only post newly gleaned information? The big infodump every update is a little much to scroll through.

# ? Feb 17, 2014 01:44

Francis: Jul 23, 2007; Thanks for the input, Jeff.

Maybe just link to it on the test poster and only include new information in your post?

# ? Feb 17, 2014 02:04

dizaero: Jan 30, 2012; CORRECT ANSWER
YUO ARE SMART

Elegance x2.. That will give us a probably 30 some points and make a nice dent.

# ? Feb 17, 2014 02:13

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 17:44

GrizzlyCow: May 30, 2011

Internal Affairs and Presence.

# ? Feb 17, 2014 02:30

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