>>2829697
Miellewds-guy here.

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>>2830085
hi hi, i was about to go buy something to eat. Lets wait for a bit and if theres noone else today we can just go ahead I guess. It'll be undeniably fast but not ideal

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btw what do you think of the dress in >>2830088
? I have no memory on where i got this pic from, though.


***

And so, we suggest Mako to start with the construction of the Language Squares, but as that is a relatively minor project, the country can still afford a larger project.

So, it would be either the Land Reclamation Project, or the [Imperial Trading Company]

>Trade Company
>Land Reclamation

To remind you, the land reclamation project aims to populate the desert and build extra foodgeons, OR drain swamps for the same purpose.

The imperial trading company is basically the india's company, isekai version

>>2830177
>Trade Company

>>2830177
>Trade Company

>>2830088
I like the dress, something for Miel and Miel II to wear when they're with us.
If we make a hole for their tales, it would also work for the succubi.

And again we lose an entire day of potential questing.

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>>2830361
>>2830323
>>Trade Company

As Alquia's national bonus grants a bonus to productivity based on tax, boosting trade or industry is not a bad idea however you look at it.

"If her highness is open to suggestions, how about going with the trade company? We are bound to receive a lot of traffic from Heven and Lapsiona from now on, aren't we?"
"Is that so?" - our cute empress blinks blinks while looking at us - "Alright, if Eldric says so."

She went with our suggestions with not even a moment of hesitation. Ah, it would be bad if we ended pulling strings from behind the throne, so lets try and keep our suggestions to a minimum in the future.

"Vizir, please arrange things for the stablishment of the [Imperial Trade Company]." - says our cute empress
"Yes, your highness."

[Imperial Trade Company] has been approved.
Time to completion: 2 years
Bonus:
* 25% corruption reduction
* 200% increase on income from foreign trade routes
* +6 foreign trade routes
* You can now build [Trading Posts] In any hex under your control. Trading Posts develop into commercial cities over time.

Current Trade Routes:

Alquia <--> Sanc:
<- +120.000 gold ´per turn, +75 science per turn, +15 approval per turn
-> +72.000 gold per turn, +125 science per turn, city states do not use approval

Alquia <--> Heven:
<- +150.000 gold/turn, +225 science/turn, +20 approval/turn
-> +225.000 gold/turn, +55 science/turn, +25 approval/turn

Alquia <--> Heaven
<- +450.000 gold/turn, +750 food (tons)/turn, +40 approval/turn
-> +250.000 gold/turn, +750 food (tons)/turn, +40 approval/turn

6 new trade routes available

Trade routes available:
Alquia <--> Eopolis // Gold oriented
Alquia <--> Lapsiona // Food oriented
Alquia <--> Opal // Resource oriented
Alquia <--> Albion // Science oriented
Alquia <--> Blacklake // Science oriented
Alquia <--> Beastlands // Good oriented
Alquia <--> Bastion // Resource oriented
Alquia <--> Sbastia // Science oriented

Eh... the new trade routes options is already on? But, it looks like we can't build new trading posts until the project is actually finished.

Well, we already have a mega harbor we are not using, though...

Pick 6 routes

>>2830421
>Alquia <--> Beastlands // Good oriented

Food, i meant food-oriented

btw you CAN pick a route more than once. Just saying. It just sends more fleets or caravans in that direction

>>2830421
>Alquia <--> Heaven
>Alquia <--> Heven:
Where is Heaven?
I know Heven is Okaba's kingdom, but where is Heaven?

>>2830437
Ren's kingdom

>>2830439
Then you should have written it as "Heavenly Empire" so that it's more clear.

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Come think about it, let's write is Heavenly Empire

Anyway, its big enough it makes it !China. HUGE kingdcom, which is why Mako's kingdom gets so much money from exporting goods to it. They both import/export aboout as much food, and you know Ren's ppl are usually bad at science and Mako's are good at money, plus the hiiiigh approval bonus is because its a really really old and traditional ally so the ppl are used to buying luxury goods from the other kingdom

Ah, you may want to leave at least one slot open for the Miel Hegemony when we actually hand it its first ship... i also forgot Yellowleaves (Aritsu & Sinoe's kingdom) so add:

Alquia <--> Miel Hegemony / Food oriented
Alquia <--> Yellowleaves / Approval oriented
Alquia <--> Silverspire / Gold oriented

>>2830421
1. Alquia <--> Eopolis // Gold oriented
2. Alquia <--> Lapsiona // Food oriented
3. Alquia <--> Opal // Resource oriented
4. Alquia <--> Albion // Science oriented
5. Alquia <--> Beastlands // Food oriented
6. Alquia <--> Sbastia // Science oriented

First let's get those trade routes with Mako's school buddies.
International negotiations come down to personal connections and relationships between the negotiators.

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>>2830458
Like I said, i forgot to include Aritsu & Sinoe's elven kingdom (Yellowleaves). Their 'thing' is diplomacy so Alquia would mostly get approval bonuses from trading with them.

Remember Mako's national bonus is "raising taxes raises production" but we still need to add approval somehow else to help counter the high tax rate.

Also I repeat, we -can- pick the same route multiple times.

Anyway, waiting to see if you wanna change anything, considering i forgot to add miel and the two elven kingdoms on the first list

>>2830456
I was wondering about Aritsu's kingdom.

Then change mine to:
1. Alquia <--> Eopolis // Gold oriented
2. Alquia <--> Yellowleaves / Approval oriented
3. Alquia <--> Opal // Resource oriented
4. Alquia <--> Lapsiona // Food oriented
5. Save for Miel
6. Alquia <--> Sbastia // Science oriented

The approval increase will help because we're going to be pushing through a lot of disruptive policies, so approval bonuses will help with that.
Also the food is important because we're going to be increasing our national population by bringing in the nomad tribes, so having food to take care of them will be important.

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>>2830481
1. Alquia <--> Eopolis // Gold oriented
<- 320.000 g/turn, +60 science/turn, +200 food (tons)/turn
-> 450.000 g/turn, +60 science/turn, +125 food (tons)/turn

>2. Alquia <--> Yellowleaves / Approval oriented
<- 30.000 g/turn, +10 science/turn, +110 app/turn
-> 350.000 g/turn, +60 science/turn, +5 app/turn

>3. Alquia <--> Opal // Resource oriented
<- 250.000 g/turn, +40 science/turn, +Mithril(6) Adamantium(2) Steel(25) resources/turn added to national stoclpile
-> 450.000 g/turn, +20 science/turn, 300 food (tons)/turn

>4. Alquia <--> Lapsiona // Food oriented
<- 150.000 g/turn, +60 science/turn, +25 app/turn
-> 125.000 g/turn, +20 science/turn, city states do not use approval

>5. Save for Miel

>6. Alquia <--> Sbastia // Science oriented
<- 220.000 g/turn, +160 science/turn, -20 app/turn
-> 120.000 turn, +120 food (tons)/turn, +30 science/turn

Sbastia gives a huge science bonus but trading with necromancers gives a considerable approval penalty

Yellowleaves gives a huge approval bonus but not much more.

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>>2830519
Alquia has a much larger pop base than Eopolis so it can't be helped that they gain more from access to our market than the other way around.

Opal gives us mostly science and strategic resources

Lapsiona... bah I got that one wrong, hold on...

Alquia <--> Lapsiona
<- 150.000 g/turn, +600 food(tons)/turn, +25 app/turn
-> 350.000 g/turn, +75 science/turn, +20 app/turn

Like I said, Sbastia is mostly science, and a small app penalty

>>2830527

Anyway this gives us a +70% food surplus per turn with our current pop (which gives us 1/2 as much in approval bonus), you guys want to leave it as is?

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>>2830529
oh and since we're raising approval, do you wanna take the chance to raise taxes? I remind you that Mako gets a production bonus matching her tax rate

>>2830529
Leave it.

>>2830536
>>2830536
Increase taxes.

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>>2830547
Alright so raising taxes to 35% for a 35% production bonus, then? Still leaves a 20% approval surplus, just in case.

That raises our gold income from commercial routes by 20% each, btw.

Uhmm- this actually adds quite a bit of cash flow to the empire's arks every turn... its even enough to fund another super fortress, or rush the [Imperial Trading Company] and have it done by the end of this year (4 months) rather than in 2 years (24 monthys).

>Get another Super Dreadnought Movile Fortress. Fuck the [ERROR]s up the ass. We can trust Mako not to conquer the world afterwards.
>Rush the [Imperial Trading Company]
* 25% corruption reduction
* 200% increase income from foreign trade routes (of which now we have a lot)
* Ability to build [Trading Posts] that will grow into cities.

>>2830565
Will the increased income from foreign trade be used to rush the building of a Super Dreadnought, and have it be finished in time for the invasion?

btw those are all the pics i have for Miel. If you fine gentlemen would kindly provide more, I'd be grateful

>>2830587
If thats what you want to do. Thats why im asking. Do you want to have another dreadnought by the time the continental invasion comes by? Theres no way it can be done in time for the invasion on the islands (3 weeks from now) but it would be on time for their main attack

>>2830592
My question is, if we rush the Imperial Trading Company, can we then put the increased income to rushing the Super Dreadnought after, and have it be in time for the continental invasion?

Because rushing the Super Dreadnought right now is a bad choice since it won't be done in time for the islands invasion, and we won't have the advantage of the increased income by the time of the continental invasion.

>>2830615
Oh, let me see...
We'd need to assign another trade route to Opal kingdom, at least temporarily. I guess its fine since we haven't really gotten Miel's fleet started yet?

But if we do that, then sure. Oh, or assign one to just purchase resources from Ren. Glassteel and Palladium would rush the build time, too, but it would only be a expense with little profit other than the strategic resourses.

Either would work if you wanna rush the trade company and then the dreadnought. I guess we can afford it with the bonuses from the company

>>2830626
Good.

Then rush the Imperial Trading Company and buy resources from Ren to rush a second Super Dreadnought.

>>2830629
Alright, then it'll be over with the change of turn (3 months and 3 weeks) instead of in 2 turns.

***

Uhmm... the Finances Minister has a surprising amount og power, after all...

It makes me curious on who DOES has more power, Yin or us. I mean, she basically just makes all the decisions and then hands us the documents to stamp, as far as it comes to spending money, doesn't she?

Ah, actually, I guess its a team effort now that the harpies are helping her with it...

>Let's not try and micromanage them. Let's trust they know what they're doing
>Let's take a close look at the books next time we are at the office
>Other

>>2830645
>Let's take a close look at the books next time we are at the office
We need to keep Eldric from becoming like his grandfather.

>>2830648
well lets stop here for tonight. See you tomorrow

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I was organizing the trade routes in a spread sheet and realized the following... (no idea how to show a proper sheet or even a table here, so please forgive the untidyness) If we import glassteel and palladium from Ren to Alquia, we have two choices

> Pay for it in cash, which will be 800.000 gold/year
> Pay for it in luxury resources, which will be +100 approval for Ren, and even out all of our approval from trade routes so we don't actually 'generate' any approval at all that way

Honestly we CAN afford the money, ESPECIALLY when the Imperial Trading Company is completed in a few months

Currently we collect 2.267.000 gold/year(turn) in exports
Currently we pay 1.340.000 gold/year(turn) in imports

We are currently generating +100 approval for Mako from trade routes. We can save 800.000 gold in imports if we let that extra approval drop to 0 (not a loss, just exactly not a profit).

But, remember: This is BEFORE increasing tax rates on imports by +15% AND before taking into account that the ITC will triple export profits starting at the end of the year, so my suggestion is to just pay the money

So

>Pay 800.000 gold/turn
>Pay 100 approval/turn

Technically, its a fair deal either way. Ren could certainly use the money OR the approval

>>2831538
Btw either way we are getting a huge science boost from buying the super advanced alloys

>>2831538
>>Pay 800.000 gold/turn

>>2831564
I just went ahead and added all the numbers, increased tax and paid for it with cash and the end numbers say that we are still generating 500.000 gold/year(turn) for Mako whila paying Ren 800.000 gold for the Palladium and Glassteel

So, got 800.000 extra gold a turn on Ren's side, want to hop over and have something else built over there? lower taxes or something?

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>>2831568
We should take Miel with us and see what projects are available. Though we should be doing the same for Eopolis, since we're probably going to take overall control from our uncle and Alard.

We funded the Capital Sewer System Project, the Advanced Think Tank Research Center, the Experimental Alchemical Furnace, Docile Plant Breeding Program, and Germ Theory.
We should check what new civilization-specific Projects are available.

Also, the rock-it shipyard in Mantequira, is it a nationalized shipyard or is it owned by Eldric, as Duke of Mantequira. I have in my notes that we created Sienar Fleet Systems in Mantequira to produce rock-it ships for the Empire.

So currently (before ITC comes 'online') Alquia's end-of-year line looks like this

GNP 374,000,000

Spending
Military ~ 27%
Research ~ 15%
Infraestructure ~ 40%
National Treasury ~ 18% (+6.732.000 gold/year)

If we really wanna make the most out of the ITC, though, we really need to start spamming trading posts when it comes 'on'.

Also, remember each new population type adds a bonus 'per unit of population'.

A unit of population is 10.000 individuals, btw.

Each type of population has different requirements for growth, and grants different bonuses. IE harpies like mountain OR coastal settlements, but avoid mediterranean settlements with neither high ground nor shorelines nearby, and they add an approval bonus of +30 per unit.

If you want more harpies in a nation, you should move around their pop units to coastal/mountain settlements, where they will grow naturally, or convert more tribes and assign them to a settlement.

And yeah the harpies are cute, but im not assigning them an approval bonus because of that. Its because they tend to work in government and drop corruption, which grants an app bonus.

Beastkin tend to grant a security bonus and an approval bonus, though they're smaller, obviously (same total, but spread between 2 different types)

Honey faeries give a food and industry bonus, etc

>>2831598
That pic is pretty cute, I wonder if the warrior bees would have 4 arms... you know, more weapons

Hold on let me check Ren-exclusive tech...

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Some projects and side-quests that we never finished:

1. Smuggler in Eopolis using our rock-it ship warehouses to smuggle Alquian goods (during the time of the trade embargo against Alquia)

2. Create Linked Journals for the research institutions and labs of the Northern Coalition and of the United Nations for the X-COM Project.

3. Create Linked Journals for Miel so that she can administer the Hives of the Hegemony more easily.

4. Create a number of administrative golems to assist Miel and her daughters in administering the Miel Hegemony as it becomes a global super-state.

>>2831630
>1. Smuggler in Eopolis using our rock-it ship warehouses to smuggle Alquian goods (during the time of the trade embargo against Alquia)
Well, that worked itself out, didn't it?

>2. Create Linked Journals for the research institutions and labs of the Northern Coalition and of the United Nations for the X-COM Project.
Eh? we did that

>3. Create Linked Journals for Miel so that she can administer the Hives of the Hegemony more easily.
I honestly assumed we did that off-camera since it was just a [Craft] skill use away

>4. Create a number of administrative golems to assist Miel and her daughters in administering the Miel Hegemony as it becomes a global super-state.
We haven't handed over the first hive ship yet, why would they need the golems already?

Anyway, checking on Heavenly Empire-exclusive techs and units.

Since we moved the empire to Era III, we unlocked The Ancient (the empire super unit) and the Tribal Council

The Ancient is basically what happens when you DO actually manage to assimilate dragons and add them to your military

The Tribal Council raises the limit on tribes you can assimilate by +1 per language square, and allows you to assimilate dragons. But notice it doesn't removes their need to eat, so we'll need to secure a whole lot of food if we wanna go into an assimilation rampage.

And surprising noone (I hope), is the fact that dragons are expensive, since they require a lot of previous ores to breed.

Era IV

Cultural Indoctrination raises language square limit by +1 again

Eiren Insitute (this setting's version of the United Nation. ie Ren's 'I win' structure)
+20 approval per assimilated tribe
+40 approval per alliance
+20 approval in the city it is built
+20 approval in every city within the empire
Can spend approval (replenishes at the end of turn) to force other countries to ally with the empire.
Can spend approval to call for World Leader vote (notice that each assimilated tribe grants you +1 vote in all votes)
Can spend approval to call for Trade Sanction votes
Can spend approval to call for Universal Projects (Universal Vaccination, Single World Religion, Olympic games, World Fairs, etc)

Era V

Moon Colonies - Grants entire map reveal, approval bonuses, units can embark from the capital and drop anywhere on the map.

Protector of the People
+1 slot per language square

Era VI

Aura of Leadership - You are revered as the most benevolent and polite neighbor, and every other empire sings your praises,
+2 Approval per population unit in foreign empires.
You can spend approval to purchase foreign cities (not capitals)

One World, One People
Unlimited slots per language square


For reference, Ren's kingdom is currently in ERA III, but will switch to ERA IV at the end of the year when our current projects are completed

>>2831710

If anyone cares, Okaba AND Asmund win conditions are research-triggered.

Okaba unlocks Infinity Gate, which is basically an improved version of the gate at the bottom of the keep, and allows for the colonization of other worlds, and basically stops giving a fuck about this world's politics since he gets access to unlimited resources and land

Asmund unlocks the Infinity Serum and his people become a mana-based lifeform, They no longer need food, and begin colonizing the afterlife, building settlements in both heaven and hell, which are infinite.

>>2831726
Do we have a win condition as Eopolis?

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>>2831738

ERA IV allows us to assign heroes as provincial managers, which hugely boost efficiency. Think of a Zoe or Lyann per city.

Rockit Armies - Military upkeep reduced by 25%

ERA V gives us access to Ancestral Walkers, which are our ridiculously high level ancestors, reanimated as military units

Access to rockit buildings, which makes all construction 95% cheaper (and since buildings are basically weightless, makes skyscrappers look like mudhurts)

Rockit Legions - Military Upkeep reduced by 25%

ERA VI - Keepers of Infinity. Understanding the true shape and purpose of the ancient keep at the heart of Eopolis, it once again takes to the skies to resume its duty as Guardian of All Worlds, predicting and shutting down any [ERROR] portals before they have a chance to open in the first place.

Honestly, we don't really have a 'win' condition based by tech, as much as by quest. Either fixing the keep so it can go back to full operational super unit/structure again, or by otherwise stopping the [ERROR] incursions forever.

We do also get a lot of gold-producing tech and structures but since we aren't managing Eopolis ourselves, its not really our problem?

>>2831782
well now i got to go check, hold on...

Era I
Visions of Glory - uh... we don't have any of these, for some reason... basically our civ wins by infraestructure. Building is kind of 'our thing'

Visions of glory grants us
+4 approval on city per public building
+4 approval per new residentlal building (apartment complex, basically)
+4 approval per new national wonder

Era III
High Towers - National Marvel
The beginning of rockit architecture, these impressively tall structures allow complete national awareness, allowing you to watch over every foreign military unit within your borders or within 2 hexes of your national borders.

ERA IV
Rockut Ships - we got those
Rockit Infantry - +2 hexes of mobility when enemy units are within sight. You know, so we can reposition to advantageous terrain or surround the enemy

Yup, that's all. The more we build the more approval we get, the more approval we get the more we can expand, the more we expand the more we can build, etc

Eventually building is stupidly cheap, and then we send a 5 miles radius fortress into the air with the ability to transmigrate to stop [ERROR] incursions in other worlds as/if needed

>>2831782
To be honest, taking control of Eopolis for ourselves and repairing the Keep so that it prevents [ERROR] incursions throughout any world produced by the system seems like the more responsible choice.
So let's do that.

heh, I guess that makes us into the !Egypt of this setting. Don't know if you are familiar with the civilization series, but the egyptians 'thing' is being stupidly good builders

>>2831825
heh, that makes me think of this theme's name/intent

In Endless Space 2, the United Empire is basically humanity, finally getting our shit together and sailing forth into space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlFvp8j6d8

Oh, have you seen robotech/macross? The idea of the keep taking off makes me think of the SDF-1 taking off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smxf_53jEI8

>>2831859
It is pretty Macross-y.
But no Minmei.

Anyway, do you want to 'win' or just re-float the keep? Because I don't see an issue in letting one of our friends 'win' and just continue playing until we can launch it back into the sky/multiverse again.

If Ren or any of our friends 'wins' the world goes into peace, and we can advance our tech without the worry or wars distracting us.

The only nations that we do not want to win are Garsdale (we haven't even made contact with them, but lets just say they win by military victory) or Bastion, but Bastion basically fucked itself already and lost its advantage/window of opportunity, which was cheap and strong low tech units.

Basically a civ tailored to win early game. The more tech advances, the less relevant they are as a military threat.

Zerg Rush kekekeke?

Anyway, Garsdale is the only real 'in house' military threat remaining, and their current leaders are actually isolationists, so its fine so long as nobody goes poke that particular beehive.

>>2831872
>But no Minmei.
Lyann sings <.<

Really, its fine as long as Ren, Mako, Sinoe/Aritsu, Asmund, Honoria or Okaba 'wins' since they can certainly assist us with refloating the keep sooner once way or another.

Of course, Im sure our family will be happy if we show interest in our motherland and get involved in its management.

Grandpa pretty much just handed the government to unfle Wolfric, and our uncle isn't really interested in war or expansion so much as just raising everybody's living standard.

I think that if we just get him to build a couple Visions of Glory (a type of plaza), we'll get a huge boost of approval all at once and can then raise taxes or whatever, since each VoG basically is a scale model of the city, showing all the public works and such, thus ppl can see what we do with their taxes and feel better about paying them in the first place.

"Oh, I've never actually GONE to the central marketplace, but doesn't it look nice? Lets take the family there on the weekend"
"Sure honey. And next week, we may try the public baths or the aquarium."
"We have an aquarium?"
"Right there, next to the zoo"
"We have a zoo?"

unrelated, but i like the United Empire because one of their hero units makes me think of a grown up Stella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Wfen9uLwI

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>>2831898
Sure, letting Ren or Mako win and then reaping the benefits of having our other friends finish their final projects would be fine.

Maybe even let Miel win.

As for taking control of Eopolis, I'd like to do it for a number of reasons. We can better coordinate and manage the X-COM Project if we control Eopolis.
But also, so that we can refloat the Keep and eliminate the threat of the [ERROR]s and tell Grandpa and Tapac that they're such disappointments to the Lightbringer House.
They had this harebrained scheme to kill so many people in order to supercharge the shield generator so that it would short-circuit one [ERROR] portal, without considering that OTHER portals could open up and that supercharging the shield generator that they don't understand could wreak it beyond repair, leaving the world, and the Keep, defenseless against the next invasion.
Having had thousands of years and not keeping the Archives indexed and abstracts of the contained information ready is a stain on Tapac's service to the Lightbringer Family.

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Anyway, continuing.

We are buyind the advanced alloys and paying 800k for them, correct? Once the new Dreadnought is completed, what do you wanna do with that trade deal? Cancel it or keep it and use the materials for something else, like better rockitship fleets or buildings?

I'd feel so guilty if we take Ren's raw materials, turn them into goods and sell them back to her...

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>>2831931
Well, Miel victory type is population, and its not hard, but she is pretty far behind since she doesnt has a single settlement yet.

Her racial bonuses add food, which adds growth, and again, more pop means more food, which means more pop growth, etc.

You get pop win if you have 1/2 the world's population and, again, pretty much every type of pop in the hegemony adds to pop or food.

*cough* anyway once the new dreadnought is up...?

>Cancel secundary trade route with Ren
>Keep and use the materials for something else
>Other

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>>2831933
>We are buyind the advanced alloys and paying 800k for them, correct?
Correct.

>Once the new Dreadnought is completed, what do you wanna do with that trade deal?
Keep it, and funnel the materials into better military arms and armor, and improved rock-it ships.

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>>2831961
>Keep and use the materials for something else
Use it for upgrading the Alquian military. Alquia doesn't have much local production of glassteel, so this will help upgrade their military units until local production catches up.

Once the military has been upgraded, the materials can go into the production of local rock-it ships.

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We stay and chat with Mako for a bit, then borrow Miel and take her with us.

"E-eh? You want me to go with you...? B-but..."

>Calm her down. We don't need her to 'work' for us, we just enjoy being with her
>We want her to see how country management works
>Other

>>2831983
>Calm her down. We don't need her to 'work' for us, we just enjoy being with her
We can still show her a basic overview of how country management works, but getting into the details can wait until she gets her first Hiveship and gets access to her own civilization management console (and after we've written a how-to guide from our own experience using the Eopolis one so that Miel has an easier time of using the management console).

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"Really...?"
"Yes, of course." - we lean in to give our petite and beautiful faery queen a kiss
"Alright." - she says, rather happy

Well, it seems we got an unexpected cash infusion into Ren's budget, perhaps we should hop over to the office and assign some more projects?

We are at the edge of ERA IV with Ren, after all.

>Let's do that
>Other

>>2832019
>Let's do that
We can also check in with Yin and Nina, and have them point out where the records are for when we'll go over them after our tour with Miel.

>>2832019
>edge of ERA IV
Didn't we just enter Era III just a Turn ago?
What Era is Eopolis on? We should be at Era IV but we haven't seen any of the Era III structures or units.

>>2832019
>>Let's do that

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>>2832040
>Didn't we just enter Era III just a Turn ago?
Remember Ren moves through eras based on infeaestructure, now research, and we have been building lots and lots of that

>>2832040
We are at ERA III in eopolis, but our uncle isnt interested in military expansion, and we did just win WWI, which left us with huge standard armies (that grandpa raised) that need to be decomissioned so he's not really interested in assembling new military units right now. At all.

He's worried about how to turn 2.5 million soldiers back into civilians, pay them fairly as veterans, and make sure they feel appreciated so they dont turn into bandits.

We do have High Towers, but since they are used for war and we aren't at war atm, we haven't really paid them any attention.

And we're blazing through eras with Ren. Yes, we just ended Era II, but we're already ending Era III too, just a few months away in fact.

We really need those visions of glory in Eopolis

unrelated, but these guys make me think of Asmund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R0G_RZykVA

Do we have just the 1 person on the thread today?

***

We get Miel to dress with one of those cute open back dresses we had made for all of our winged pets and tail-bearing imoutos, then [Treestride] over to Mantequira and, as usual, emerge out of the peach tree in the inner palace's garden.

A group of white lionkin greets us during their patrol.

>Ask them about Ren
>Just nod and move along towards the office
>Other

>>2832082
>Just nod and move along towards the office
We will look for Ren once we have an idea of the Empire's current finances and available Projects for her to approve.

>>2832082
>>Just nod and move along towards the office

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The local honey faeries flock over to greet Miel, so we are still slowed down a fair bit as we get surrounded by tiny workers carrying babies or pulling small children along.

Eh, they are all working while taking their children along. I guess we can't expect them to leave them home, but it feels a bit wrong somehow. Well, their biology is different from humans, you don't get the 'nuclear family' model in a bee hive, after all.

We do eventually manage to move forth, though, and find Yin and the girls enjoying tea with cookies while handling just a few documents... well, obviously, 11 people are going to make short work of what used to be a huge pile of documents being handled by just 1 person.

There's a fluffy and sunny feeling in the office, somehow, with a strong floral scent. No, is this a girly scent? I guess this is a 99% girly place, now...

"My lorc? Is something the matter?" - asks Yin, since this is not one of the days we normally drop by the office
"Master, master!" - the harpies get up or crawl over, looking for headpats

Yes, yes, you're all really cute. Let's give you headpats.

"No, its just that there's been a sudden trade deal which will give us a lot of cash flow, so I wanted to assign it to a new project right away."
"Ah, I know the one..." - Yin hands us a brand new document...

Seriously? Its this end's side of the trade deal. Didn't we just approve of it on the other end? Did it just materialize here? The game-like mechanics of this world feel plain weird sometimes.

Well, let's stamp it. Approved.

Now, let's see...

We probably should upgrade the language squares with the Tribal Council upgrade, which will raise their capacity from +3 tribes to +4 each.

>Lets do that
>Lets take the chance to approve a expansion of the merchant navy
>Other

>>2832188
>Lets do that

>>2832188
>>Lets do that

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>>2832250
>>2832198
>>Lets do that

"Alright, then since we have the budget, let's upgrade the language squares..."
"..." - they
"..." - us
"...?" - they

We're actually being squished by 10 petite beauties.
Yup, we're super popular (with children). In fact we're covered by cute girls at this very moment.

They're 10 beautiful, model like, petite beauties (with wings), kneeling behind us and around us and standing so they can lean forth unto us...

Its (literally, not sexually) hot. Feathers are hot. Being smothered by 20 wings its a little suffocating. Thankfully they're all really light, and with out strenght, its not as if we're actually bothered by the weight, but its still hot.

Oh, I wonder if we should take this chance to officially assimilate our cute harpies into the empire. We'd need to release them so they are not our pets anymore first, though.

>Its fine, we took them in as children, and now that they are hard working office beauties, its fine for them to leave the 'nest' so to speak
>Nonono. My cute chicks aren't ready to leave the nest. We can go find another flock somewhere
>Why not have the local honeyfaery hice take the spot and officially become villagers at last?
>We should probably do a survey and see which tribes are vailable
>Other

>>2832321
>We should probably do a survey and see which tribes are vailable
No, I want to keep our little harpies with us.
Also, we should keep them so that they can Rank Up first.

>>2832321
>>We should probably do a survey and see which tribes are vailable

>>2832400
>>2832344
>>We should probably do a survey and see which tribes are vailable

We playfully fall forth unto the floor, and the girls let out a soft, musical series of chuckles as they fall forth on top of us, piling up in a happy mood

"Girls."
"Yes Master~?"
"Can someone hand me the adventurer's guild report on rmonster tribes within our territory?"
"Me!" - chirped 5 girls, and hurried off to look for it

A few minutes later, they come back complaining about there not being such a document.

"Alright... if I wanted to know what monster tribes are, where would I need to ask?"
"Army records?" - says one
"Merchant guild maps." - says another
"That is why, Master wanted an adventurer's guild survey..."

>Can you girls complile one for me, please?
>Can you give me all that info? I'll comple it myself
>Other

>>2832538
btw, in general Ren's troops have low att and high defense. Just saying.

>>2832538
>>Can you girls complile one for me, please?

>>2832538
>>Can you girls complile one for me, please?

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>>2832711
>>2832671
>>>Can you girls complile one for me, please?

"Ye~es" - chirps Nina
"Me!" - Rosa crawls in and gives us a smooch, then gets up and heads for the file cabinets

There's a chorus of "me too!" as they run away to check documents or request them from other offices

It takes them about 10 minutes, but they sure look busy as they work together.

Documents go and come, tea and cookies follow, but soon enough they have a document they can proudly present to us

Just where did they get THIS info from? Seriously, I would have been happy with just the starting list

Eh... there's a majin tribe roaming around? That's Okaba's people, isn't it?

I wonder what would he say if he knew there's a land where his people count as monsters... it makes me kind of curious. Can we add Kya to our menagerie if we bring her over?

I kind of wanna try...

>Do it
>Better not

Anyway, this is a rather long list... well, we have 2 language squares and already had room for 2 species. With the latest upgrade, that went up to 4...

***

I had to bullshit a page size so it could all fit in a single page. Sorry about that

>>2832743
Remember that a population unit is up to 10.000 individuals, with the exception of dragons, where a population unit is just 10 individuals.

All other races, its 10.000, ok? That means that if we have 9.999 individuals of X race, that normally means we only have 1 unit to move around the empire, while 10.001 means we have 2.

>>2832743

Well, we have 4 empty slots, so let's add...

>Race 1
>Race 2
>Race 3
>Race 4

>>2832743
>Do it
>Write-in: But ask permission first. Remind Okaba that this is for SCIENCE! If he says no, ask Asmund for an undead and an undead construct to try this with. Again, FOR SCIENCE!

>>2832753
Wait, I thought we already Civilized the Aurochkin? And the Honey Faeries are still Monsters? Does Sunday and the local Hive still show up as Monsters or are they Nomads because they came from the Eastern Continent where they’re Civilized?

>>2832753
I want to get a Pet of each race before we bring them into the Empire, though. So hard to choose.

>>2832758
We civilized the aurochkin...in the jade islands. You need to civilize them per continent

If they reach 10001 and we move a civilized one to the mainland, then they'll count as civilized in the mainland

Same for the honey faeries. They count as civilized in the eastern continent, not the eastern one.

Thats why Majin and succubus show up as monsters HERE, in this continent.
Also remember that Fleur started as a thorny demon then evolved like 4 times and is just 1 evolution short of the end of her evolution chain, and its thanks to her that we have a variety of thorny demon evolutions to choose from since she can breed/seed any of the sub evolutions.

About the succubus, keep in mind that each, stronger evolution is slower to breed than the one before it.

>>2832758
Or wait, is being Civilized (not a Monster) separate from being a Vassal/Citizen off a Civilization?

So the succubi in New Hope are Civilized (not Monsters) but are not Citizens of Eopolis/Albion, so if we build a Language Square in Eopolis we can have them take up a slot in it and become Vassals of Eopolis?

>>2832771
>Same for the honey faeries. They count as civilized in the eastern continent, not the eastern one.

Also in the southern continent.

>>2832771
I thought the Jade Islands were Heavenly Empire territory.

>>2832771
So the guards in the Imperial Palace are okay with Monsters being there? I thought that Sunray and her Hive was Civilized when we got them some land in the capital? Or did that not get done even after we spoke with Ren about it?

>>2832753
Delvers, Dorgeshi, Aurochkin, Eyeless Ones (after we take one as a Pet)

>>2832775
yes but they still count as other continent. Think Oceania

And yes the succubi in New Hope count as civilized (villager class) but arent citizens of any one nation right now

To be civilized in a continent, you need to OWN land in that continent
To be a citizen you need to be either your own major faction (at least 10 units of population), or have joined one through a language square

>>2832778
I totally forgot about that, You are right, they would count as civilized, but not as citizens until we add them through a language square

>>2832778
Anyway, do you WANT to add them to Ren's empire? It will be a hassle to have them migrate en masse later when we get them their first hive ship...

>>2832784
>Delvers
Right, its a good bonus
>Dorgeshi
Ditto
>Aurochkin
We COULD just move the whole tribe from the jade islands to the mainland, though i guess it would be a hassle if we need them to abandon the village they already built there... may be faster to just find another tribe in the continent and have THEM own land, then join
>Eyeless Ones
Yeah, its a good solid bonus
>(after we take one as a Pet)
Can I ask why? I just imagine a humanoid mouse, sort of like a nezumi. I guess a girl would be petite, use hude eyeglasses, have a tiny set of ears and a tail... its the glasses factor, isn't it?

>>2832793
No, all fairy peoples are to belong to Miel and the Miel Hegemony. I’m sorry to Ren and Mako, but that’s my position and I won’t change my mind on it.

I’m actually having second thoughts about the Eyeless Ones; they sound like a people that could be useful to the Plant Faeries. Maybe instead of adding them to the Empire, add the Equus so that the food production is there for when the Drakken get added.

>>2832801
Yes, the petite glasses factor.
I want to expand our Pet Harem, so definitely get a female Lupus Regio before adding them to the Empire.

>>2832807
>Lupus Regio
You did notice that was a joke about Stella's tribe, right?

I think the mole people would be too big for the hive ships. Sure, I imagine they would be about dwarf size, but still... the thing is that faeries can shrink, most species cannot.

So anyway lets see... you want to add both flavours of dwarf to the empire, plus the centaurs and aurochkin, right?

And get a pet of which tribes? There's a LOT of advantages in adding Kya to the menagerie, really. The 'you can't actually kill her' being the most important one, obviously

>>2832821
>You did notice that was a joke about Stella's tribe, right?

Come think about it, I think I only commented on twitter once that Stella can actually shapeshift into a dire wolf... well, dire puppy :P

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>>2832826
Ah good I found the pic. I guess I did post it here, though it was literal years ago.

I remember joking about the wolf shape having a bit of colored hair matching her own.

>>2832821
Well, adding Kya to our Menagerie is for SCIENCE! and if she feels like the immortality aspect is safe then she can keep the slot.

As for Pets/harem members: Lupus Regio (make her wear a priestess robe), Eyeless One, Haunter, Hurnas are the ones I want.
Drakken would also be good, and maybe one of the other harpy types.
I’m unsure about the construct/elementals.
And maybe a Jungle Faerie as well.

Anyway, lets see if i got it...

both dwarves
centaurs
monotaurs

And someone mentioned Stella's tribe?

That's still 1 race too many, you guys wanna make your votes again or we going with just the first 4

>>2832848
Oh ok hold on, then for newly assimilated tribes into Ren's kingdom is:

Delvers
Dorgeshi
Aurochkin
Equus

And for the menagerie/harem is

Lupus Regio,,, i thought we were adding Stella in 3-4 years? You want a wolfgirl NOW? And why the priestess robe? Is this a Lunar reference?

If its a lunar reference, remember to carry protection when you with her into the forest

Drakken... we already got Tanis, Akroma and Tien, though?

I think I butchered Akroma's name, but we haven't played with our hikikomori dragon in a while. We also got a new dragon recently, remember? (I forgot her name ;_; )

Construct/Elementals ... its just a intelligence inside a body or iron... unless we all want to go with a Kos-Mos -like construct, I guess?

Jungle Faery, right. So, have we agreed on what they actually look like? Same as honey faeries, just slightly taller, or are they delicious brown or what?

>>2832874
>Lupus Regio
Even if we add Stella, I still want another wolfgirl, maybe one that’s more mature.

As for the Jungle Faeries, I was thinking delicious brown Amazons.

>>2832874
>We also got a new dragon recently, remember? (I forgot her name ;_; )
Did we? There’s Atruma, our hikikomori NEET dragon. Tanis, our strong and independent dragon. And Tiel, the Fairy Dragon born from Atruma and Miel II.

I suppose you could include Radiant, our mount, but she hasn’t shown her sapience yet.

>>2832874
>And why the priestess robe? Is this a Lunar reference?
It’s an Overlord reference, to Lupus Regina Beta.

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>>2833122
Yeah, we got another field dragon while going to Bastion on the rockitship. It was a random field monster and we tamed her. She's a very classical dragoness in that she was just gathering treasure because she's building a horde previous to mating and laying eggs, so her personality is pretty different from Tanis.

I guess she's more of an older sister type while Tanis has a more 'late teens' feel to her. I am sorry to say I forgot her name, but im sure its in the archives.

>>2833124
ah, the sadist.
I was dissapointed by how they skipped her fun moment vs the troll. In the LN she has a lot of fun beating the troll and goes full sado when she realizes she can smash it and break all its bones and it wont die unless she actually burns it

So, a more mature wolfgirl (around what age?), Kya, a jungle faery, and that's all? Or do you wanna add a bubble faery to have another plant faery too?

<-- i thought you meant this wolfgirl priestess since you said white priestess robe and lupus wears black

btw i love lupusregina's hat

>>2833137
Oh, right, that dragon. I’ll have to update my notes.

>a more mature wolfgirl (around what age?)
Maybe around early 20’s, an adult but young? Basically the same maturity as say, Aritsu and Lyann (though Lyann is very mature for her age).

>bubble faery
Oh, yes, having one member each of the fairies of the Hegemony sounds like a good idea.

I hope we have enough Menagerie slots.
Does the number of slots increase our Beastmaster levels go up?

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>>2833170
>though Lyann is very mature for her age
shes aaaaaaaaa~lmost 20 now, but she's delaying her aging with her collar since she's waiting for us, so she looks 17, but i guess you are right

>>2833170
>Does the number of slots increase our Beastmaster levels go up?
Yes, IIRC we have 5 empty slots remaining, so lets see...

1st - jungle faery
2nd - bubble faery
3rd - kya?
4th - wolfgirl
5th - centaur

Need to level up if you want to get slots for another harpy type, and a centaur, or should we switch one of the above for a centaur?

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>>2833187
ah my bad i had already included the centaur

By the way, apparent ages for the future pets?

>>2833190
Centaur - mid-age woman
Wolfgirl - young adult, early 20’s
Jungle Faery - 19-22’s
Bubble Faery - 16-18
That sound okay?

>>2833208
>Centaur - mid-age woman
what do you call middle age? late 30s and early 40s?

>>2833208
oh and do you want the jungle faery to be a queen, drone or warrior?

>>2833219
I was thinking mid- to late-30’s.

>>2833226
On the one hand, a Warrior or Worker would be useful. But getting Queens would be in keeping with our theme.

>>2833259
Alright, so, continue by showing the interface to Miel and talking about it with her, or do you wanna go out on a 'hunting expedition' for new pets?

>>2833265
I want to stick with Miel for now. We can go on a hunting expedition afterwards or even after our trip with Miel.

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>>2833318
sure, seems best. Im goin to bed now, see you guys on sunday. Any ideas, suggestions or requests, feel free to post them and ill read them between now and then

We thank our harpies with headpats all around, then sit down to look at what they came up with.

Honestly, it is pretty useful info if you are planning on adding new citizens to your country. Some provide a very strong, but also very specific bonus to a specific location, while others grant a smaller but empire-wide benefit.

Still, 10.000 people per unit... I can't decide if it is a lot or not. I mean, a medium size city has what, 280.000 people or so? And a capital can easily exceed millions.

We pull Miel over and have her sit with us to look at this together.

"Oh. If you want honey faery population to go up, you need to assign us to cities with plains or forests, you know?" - she comments when she hears our mumbling
"Is that so?" - we look at her, and lean in to give her a little kiss - "I bet I could help you raise your population in any terrain, though. One cute baby at a time, though."
"M-master!" - she complains while blushing

Uhmm... but it looks like you do need to investigate each tribe a bit more than that. They each have a favorite enviroment and even a different culture. From what we know about dwarves, for example, they prefer a industrial society over a farming one, and majin definitively prefer monarchy to republic as their system of government.

In other words, you can't just assimilate whatever you want as if you were a child in a candy store.

Right bonus
Right terrain
Right government

You need to think about all of those.

For now, let's pull open the General Management screen for the Heavenly Empire.

It allows us to see a overall screen of our current trade routes, but doesn't allows us to assign them.

I know, its because we're the general manager, not the minister of finance, like we are for Mako. In other words, our work is different.

We can assign new projects to different cities or even on a national scale. We can also point a general direction for research, but we can't specifically say 'research this next'.

My guess is that we'd need to be the Minister of Science for that.

We can see our military budget, and again, point towards a type of unit (Cavalry, Navy, Infantry), but not specifically say "this, build horse cavalry". That would be the job of general Li, right?

So, again.

We can assign large projects, we can point our researchers in a specific direction (but not towards a specific discovery), and our military towards a type of unit (but not towards a specific unit).

What else can we do?

We can assign diplomats to assimilate specific tribes of monsters... we didn't need to go ourselves? Ah, but it says here that they would be assimilated by the end of the turn, which means that going ourselves is, usually, much faster.

Well, there's just something like 3 months remaining for the end of this turn, so it wouldn't really be that long in this case... that makes me wonder, with this world's RPG mechanics, what happens if we assign all prokects on the day right before the end of turn?

1/?

>>2834299

Somehow, that sounds a little scary. Seeing a new building pop up from one day to the next would feel weird... to us, anyway. I wonder if this world's people would even bat an eye...

Anyway, we can also... oh, we can move units of population from one city to another, by switching to a city-by-city screen. This... this feels like a LOT of micromanaging.

It feels like we'd need to get acquainted with the preferences and bonuses of every single type of population in the empire.

>This is one of those great times to delegate. Yup, let's put Yin in charge of population movement
>Just do it (will take the rest of the day)
>Other

>>2834306
>Other: We will micromanage later; for now we need to pay attention to Miel

>>2834306
>>2834328
I should elaborate:
I want to set up the initial micromanaging of the city populations, then delegate to Yin once we have the system in place and a set of guidelines for her to follow. That way she should only need to tweak things rather than it being a big pile of work for her.

This way we can look like we know what we're doing, and spend more time with Miel (and Yin when we're in the office).

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>>2834331
Well I already posted the benefits of a unit of population of the tribes that can be added. Just remember those bonuses grow at 10/20/50 units of population in a non-linear manner.

Anyway, posting in pdf the bonuses and traits of our friend's empires

I'll see you guys tomorrow, most likely

>>2834306
>This is one of those great times to delegate. Yup, let's put Yin in charge of population movement
That girl needs a rise

>>2834657
The Yellowleaves bonuses reminds me of the Forest Dome facility and Ecological-type Secret Projects from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Since Sinoe is going to be on the throne of Yellowleaves and not Aritsu, I guess we won't get access to their menus.

Which reminds me, Lyann, Aritsu, and Dawn need to be pampered as well.
Well, for playing into their fetishes, lead around our island manor naked while we forcefully take them in front of the maids, then making them watch as we force ourselves on the maids (only the ones who asked for it earlier, of course).

>>2834702
>The Yellowleaves bonuses reminds me of the Forest Dome facility and Ecological-type Secret Projects from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Uff I played that YEARD ago, maybe over a decade ago?

Anyway, the yellowleaves bonuses are designed so they expand the forest, and allies want to stay allies. Losing their ally bonuses its really hard, in various ways, thus, diplomatic win

>>2834821
I found the reference to our third dragon:
Spelth'Gagaron - [Ancient Dragon] Level 540 at time of capture (20 levels above Tanis and a point of argument between the two), humanoid form is: 6’2” tall and curvy elf with pale skin, bright green hair, and golden eyes.

She was saving up ores for when she gets pregnant with a child, and we learned a little bit about dragon breeding requirements, how soft ores produce smart kids and hard ores are good for muscles and bones for strong kids.

We should set aside private places on our island where the dragons can keep their hoards (and a room in the manor for Atruma, since she's so afraid of the outside).
We should talk about having children with Tanis and Spelth, talking over things like how dragons rate the metals for dragon growth (so that Eldric can work out what properties of metals best create the desired effect), and how alloys like brass, bronze, and steel affect growth.
And I want to talk about having kids with Atruma too, just to bully and tease her.

>>2834900
Right, that reminds me that Spelth's humanoid form is an elf because she's old fashioned and elves used to be the most common race, while Tanis is younger and humans are prevalent right now

Reading back through the archives, we complained at one point that maybe we should get a stealthy Pet.

For that purpose, I'm thinking a Haunter or an Owl Harpy (because of how quiet they are when flying).

So one vote to pay attention to miel and micromanage later, and one vote to delegate it to yin.

>>2834306
>>This is one of those great times to delegate. Yup, let's put Yin in charge of population movement

>>2834694
>>2837324
So we're going to dump the entire thing on Yin, even as she doesn't have access to the screens since she's not the Minister?

Why do you always make her life harder?

>>2834306
>Just do it

so is still tied? should i just flip a coin?

>>2834306
>Other: We will micromanage later; for now we need to pay attention to Miel

>>2837362
Give her a big rise and promotions

>>2837574
There’s no place to go up in the hierarchy, though.

>>2837584
Make her acting minsister when we not there?

>>2837614
Giving her authority to approve in our place, why are we needed? It’s not like we came up with and implemented new taxation policies or reorganized the currency, so at that point we would be out of a job.

>>2837618
She dose most if not all the work anyways and all we do is stamp shit.
We ant that needed really.
We would be better as an advisor rolw for her

>>2837644
Then vote to tender our resignation if that's what you want.

>>2837677
>>2837644

Well, we do have a different mentality. Our uncle for example is a great manager, but he's not really worried about 'winning' or 'advancing the era'. He's worried about his responsibilities in the present, and about things like coming up with fair veteran pensions for 1/11th of the total population, rebuilding the teleport gates that grandpa took down, managing the unruly nobles, diminishing corruption, etc.

Yin would pretty much do the same. She would be great in many ways, but Ren's empire would still be stuck at ERA II if we didn't push things forth.

Honestly, im pretty sure either Okaba or Asmund would 'win' if left alone, because they both just happen to love research and their win confitions are research-triggered anyway.

I even stole the achievement from Endless Space for if/when either of them wins.

"Science. It works" with a golden tab showing a test tube

>>2838945
Come think about it, we could help our uncle a lot if we told him about the idea of an 'army reserve' and using the troops as construction workers, like the roman legions. Then instead of pensions, they would be salaries, which would be better and uncle could easily justify to the senate

>>2838950
I was thinking of keeping the soldiers in a National Guard/Army Reserve because we know that the [ERROR] invasion is coming and we're going to need trained soldiers, but not for a year, so rather than losing those soldiers it would be better to let them go back to civilian life while staying in shape and keeping up with their military training for a small salary.

Putting them to work as construction and infrastructure is also a viable option.
One that we would have needed to implement anyway in order have all of the VIsions of Glory structures built in all of the towns of Eopolis.

>>2838950
They still need to be paid pensions when they retire, though. And that pension is likely to become bigger because of the longer service.
We'll need to crunch the numbers on that, and we'll need to reduce non-combat pension accrual so that we can keep the final price to the Eopolis Treasury down.

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After thinking about it for a while, decided it was better to use smiley faces than numbers. It just looks so much better.

To trigger any tier of bonuses, you need at least 1, 10, 20 and 50 population units of a single species ON THE SAME CITY, not empire-wide, k?

>>2839999
is that a get? i mean, its normally on the zeros but thats so many nine's it looks pretty nice
Oh and remember that a population unit is at least 10.000 individuals.

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Uhmm I expected some comment on the pdf by now.

***

We spend a fair while just sitting down next to Miel as we look over the population screen.

There's about a hundred towns, but basically none of them reach the single digit population unit, so they are excluded, akbeit they do appear as valid trade route destinations for merchant caravans within the country.

Rather than producing gold or science though, national merchant routes simply move supplies around, which makes them a good way encourage population growth.

In fact, we find that there's at least 3 supply caravans headed to Paskua, the large island (hex) off shore from the main continent.

"Uhmm... so that's how the minotaurs reached a full population unit so fast." - we nod to ourselves
"Whom?" - asks Miel.
"Moccha and Cremâs' tribe."
"Ah, the aurochkin."
"Yes, indeed." - we pull her in for a gentle squeeze and smooch her

I see, so this is the difference between building immigrant districts or integrating the population directly into the empire. In Ren's kingdom, each different tribe has to grow on its own, be managed on its own, and needs its own space, but in return, they grant more varied bonuses, while in Mako's, they are directly integrated into the main population and boost its numbers directly.

Well, both ways have their pros and cons, since some tribes have openly conflicting political preferences.

Let's write down the numbers for Yin, along with their racial traits so she can make suggestions on moving them around, if needed.

Ah, I wonder if that wouldn't generate a conflict of interests? I mean, her people are included in this too, after all.

Anyway, let's just hang out with Miel for a few hours, then

>Head back to Bastion when it is time for lunch there to spend time with our puppygirl imouto.
>Take Yin and our faery queen to the island manor and have some fun with them
>Take our harpies (to our local) home and assign them rooms, then spend some quality time pampering them for a bit.
>Other

By the way, it may be worth it to mention the pólitical party system, i think?

A government can have 1, 2, 3 or more parties, and while it is easier to 'get things done' with just one party receiving orders from the beloved leader and passing laws unanimously and in a timely manner (it would be just rude to make the beloved leader wait), it doesn't really gives much representation to the interests of the people.

Incidentally, Ren's empire is a 1 party system, and she assigned power to a Pacifist party (policy, really), which grants large bonuses to economical and social development, while penalizing approval each time a new military building or unit gets built.

As for the concerns of the people? Well, rather than having representatives in congress, the people in the Heavenly Empire can go directly to Ren about their concerns, so its hard to point a finger and say 'tyrant' you know? She really works hard for her people...

On the other hand, it means they only ever make the trip over really important things, and some times not even then, since they just feel awkward and rude, going to waste the empress' time with their problems.

Well, nothing is perfect, after all.

Honoria and Asmund also have 1-party systems in place.

Mako has a 2-party system, and I assume you are familiar with how that works.

Our motherland of Eopolis has a multi-party system with 4 parties, which allows pretty much everyone to speak their minds, but can really slow down congress sessions and pretty much demands a two hall system.

Deputies represent different sectors of the population and then after agreeing on it, hand the issues to the senators above them.

By the way, more political parties also allows for more extraordinary laws to be in effect at any one time. Think about them like general empire policies.

Asmund, Honoria, and Ren's governments have 1 Law slot

Okaba and Mako's governments have 3 Law slots.

Uncle Wolfric runs a 5 Law slot government.

Well, Laws also tend to have a upkeep cost... in short they have good and bad things. I'll try and see if I can come up with a pdf chart with them.

>>2840212
>Head back to Bastion when it is time for lunch there to spend time with our puppygirl imouto.
>Take our harpies (to our local) home and assign them rooms, then spend some quality time pampering them for a bit.
Can't we do both by abusing the time zone difference between Mantequira and Bastion?

>>2840239
>Can't we do both by abusing the time zone difference between Mantequira and Bastion?

Sure, but we'll spend a bit less time with Miel. I guess its okay since we're taking her along with us, though?

>>2840240
I think it's okay because all of the time will be with Miel.
I want to do all three things, but there's just not enough time. We need to find a way to eliminate the need for sleep from Eldric so he has more time to get things done while still pampering all of the women he has.

>>2840242
Well we could try the REM sleep thing the shadows do.

You need to REALLY tire yourself for 3-4 days, then when you go to sleep you go straight into REM sleep, which is what actually rests your brain.

Normally you get about 15 minutes of REM sleep a day with 6 hours of sleep, but if you do this and catnap 30 minutes every few hours, you actually get 2 hours of REM sleep. Let me see if I can link you to some articles...

https://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/overviews/uberman-2/

There's a lot of other unusual sleep regimes you can look up on google, really.

>>2840240
>>2840242
Speaking of pampering all of our women, maybe it's time to consider a change to the maid uniform code at our island manor? It's a tropical island, so it must get hot.

Is a maid kamisk possible?

>>2840249
The problem I have with that sleep schedule is the need to stop actions every hour or two for a 30 min nap. That might be fine for some types of work, but I want continuous activity, especially for level grinding.

>>2840264
like i said, there are other sleep schedules out there if you google them.

The shadows use one i found YEARS ago where you sleep 15 minutes every 6 hours so you get 2 hours of REM sleep per day with 2 hours of sleep per day instead of 15 minutes with 6 hours of sleep.

>>2840272
That's still 15 minutes every 6 hours we have to stop.

I want 0 downtime, all uptime.

>>2840287
Do some ice, or coke

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Took me a while, but this should be the last government-related PDF for a long while.

I hope.

This thread will probably named "PDFs, PDFs everywhere"...

Anyway, go to our fluffymouto in Bastion after assigning rooms to the harpies in our Mantequira manor, right?

>>2841088
Right. And thanks for the PDF's.

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We spread the smooches and headpats all around, and take our cute office ladies (to our local) home for a meal.

Our butler is obviously happy about getting to do his job, and our harpies are happy about having a meal in such a pretty place, while Yin seems as nervous as if she was sitting in the middle of a rocking chair convention, tails spread in all directions.

We're not going to pin you against the table and do lewd things to you in front of our cutesy harpies, you know? Silly Yin.

Anyway, the meal goes by quite nicely, and the harpies seem to love the local food. We do need to remind them to actually eat the greens too, and not just the meaty bits, but overall it all goes quite well.

Ah... should we tell Miel to eat some meaty bits and not just the greens, though? I mean, she's a bee, right? And arent faeries vegetarians?

No, wait, Fleur is a lot of things, but vegetarian is not one of them. Then again, she's basically a maneater plant-based faery so she may be the exception...

I guess we'll just need to trust she knows what is best for herself.

"Master, here~" - Nina leans over while holding a spoon with
"Yes, yes. Ooom"

That causes a small crisis as the rest of the harpies all try to feed us, but a simple reminder not to play with their food calms them down with minimal fuss.

Things are, indeed, going quite nicely until we suggest they pick a room, so they don't have to [Treestride]-commune from home to work every day.

They don't like that at all, and many openly start crying about us 'kicking them out' and about how much they'll miss 'mommies and daddy' as well as 'their siblings'...

>I... uh, I guess we do need to kick them out of the nest at some point, after all...
>You can still go back home whenever with [Treestride] you know?
>You don't have to if you don't want to, but don't you want your own room?
>Other

>>2841307
>You can still go back home whenever with [Treestride] you know?
Until they Rank Up most of them are still kids.

"Well, you can [Treestride] home from the garden at the back, you know?"
"Ah!" - they immediately cheer up, and a few run off to check it
"Uuuuh~" - Nikita is still crying by our side, though
"What is it?"
"I thought Master was kicking us o-out..." - she manages to say, then starts crying even harder

I guess she was really scared

Let's pull her into a hug and give her a smooch

"There, there. I'm not going to kick you out, you know?"
"Uuuuuh..."

>Really
>Not until you evolve again, anyway
>Other

>>2842797
>Really

>>2842797
>Really

>>2842797
Not until you evolve again, anyway

>>2842905
Man, way to be a dick by hitting them right where their childhood trauma of abandonment hurts.

>>2842797
>Realy

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>>2842926
well, since i didnt add the " " at the beginning and the end, this was meant to be Eldric's inner thoughts, though. Not what he'd directly say to them.

>>2842905
>Not until you evolve again, anyway

>>2842826
>>2842822
>>Really

"Yes, really."
"W-waaah!" - eh... now she's crying again

And hugging us

[Your pet [Nikita] has accumulated enough experience to evolve. Would you like to evolve her now? Y/N]

Eh? They haven't been fighting anything, though, so I guess this use of the word 'experience' has a different meaning, right?

[Your pet [Janice has accumulated enough experience to evolve. Would you like to evolve her now? Y/N]

E-eh!? Why Janice, though!? Looking around real quick, we find her quietly looking at us from across the table, and a little to the left.

Uhn-- this girl, could it be that she's been quietly growing up without us noticing? Makes me feel like a terribly irresponsible dad, though...

Anyway! We had been waiting for this! So Yes! So Yes!

It was important, so I said it twice.

[Your pet [Nikita] has followed the [Assassin] evolution path and will now evolve for the last time. Please pick her final form]
>Fury [Wind] Melee-based
>Statue [Arcane] Magic-based
>Aello [Darkness] Death-based

Eh? I guess Aello is the final evolution of the assassin path, though the name doesn't really evokes that feeling, to be honest.

Well, let's see..

***

Uhmm give me all their names again? I need to update this image

>>2842996
I'm pretty sure that they all at least Ranked Up to [Holy] by working at our shipping company.

Nina - intelligent one (still bird-brained) and most mature. Magic Tree. Sorceress
Rank [Divine] [Gold]
Rosa - Pink and girly. Magic Tree. Witch. Rank [Holy]
Adrianna - Runt of the litter. Smallest, has platinum blonde hair, brown wings, and blue eyes, and is Rogue Tree. Rank [Holy]
Pamela - Big boobs and short, Assassin evolution. Rank [Holy]
Janice - Blue Harpy of Happiness, Seducer, a dodge-based tank. Rank [Holy]
Nikita - Assassin. Rank [Holy]
Lyudmila - brown, eagle-like, Sniper. Rank [Holy]
Tanya - Sniper. Rank [Holy]
Sophia - Archer/Healer. Rank [Holy]
Matty - Archer. Rank [Holy]

>>2843026
>I'm pretty sure that they all at least Ranked Up to [Holy] by working at our shipping company.

Yes but that's sort of a template, not an actual evolution. It shows their level of intelligence, not their physical evolution.

Thanks, that makes me realize they're actually two evolutions away from max, still. Let me retype, then.

They're evolving to Gold now, not Diamond yet, but do you want Nikita to evolve into a melee or magic variety, or further specialize into assassin?

>>2843043
I think have Nikita further specialize into Assassin, so go for Aello.
And then Pamela can go into the [Arcane] path, and take the Statue evolution.

>>2843043
And for my notes, the other harpies are still Ranked [Holy][Silver]?

>>2843055
>>2843053
Hold on im realizing I got the beams mixed, the threads made into a mess, and the paths mixed.

I fucked up, hold on, checking notes and will repost the options soon.

Alright here we go

Nikita - Rank [Holy] Rogue/Assassin
She's at gold, so she can either raise her intelligence to [Divine] which is adult human, or evolve her body, so its either
>Intelligence Holy -> Divine
>Class Assassin -> Aello (further assassin specialization)
>Class Assassin -> Statuesque (Magic)
>Class Assassin -> Erinye (melee damage)

Janice - Rank [Holy] Defender/Seducer (dodge-base tank)
>Intelligence Hply -> Divine
>Class Seducer -> Specter (further dodge-based)
>Class Seducer -> Roc (defensive stats boost)
>Class Seducer -> Erinye (melee based)

There we go, all streamlined now

>>2843055
nah, physically they're all gold (except Matty, she's still silver for some reason), but so far nina is the only one that is divine, meaning she's actually a young adult rather than a child, intelligence-wise.

Looks-wise, they all look in their mid-to-late teens

>>2843096
I'd say to Rank Up her Intelligence.
The Intelligence Ranks become locked once their physical Ranks reach maximum, so we need to finish Intelligence before Physical Evolutions.

Also, a higher Intelligence will help them with social interactions, which will let them accrue more experience that goes towards Rank Ups.

>>2843107
that also means Matty is the only one that looks somehwere in her early teens. I guess intelligence and looks wise, its like this

Nina. Young adult int-wise, late teens look-wise
Everyone else (except Matty). Child to pre-teen int-wise, late teens look-wise
Matty, child to pre-teen int-wise, juuust entering her teens, look-wise

I wonder if we should drag Matty around to give her more life experience or send her to a job where she's more involved with people...

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>2842996
Fury [Wind] Melee-based

>>2843117
Sorry man I made a series of mistakes, ignore >>2842996 and check >>2843096 instead

>>2843096
Nikita
>Class Assassin -> Aello (further assassin specialization)

Janice

Intelligence Hply -> Divine

Lets go eith this.
Though if people wana power game it il change

>>2843116
We should bring Matty, Tiel, and Fleur around with us more so that they can Rank Up their Intelligence. And Fleur especially needs to learn more so that she stops trying to eat everything and properly talks.

>>2843096
>Nikita: Rank Up Intelligence [Holy] -> [Divine]
>Janice: Rank Up Intelligence [Holy] -> [Divine]

>>2843107
So wait, if they're already all [Gold] evolutions, wouldn't Nikita and Janice going up in their physical evolution push them into [Diamond]?

Okay so >>2843111 wants to rank up both their int
And >>2843136 wants to raise Janice's int to divine and further specialize her into assassin, right?

As for their int, yes, we can still raise their int later, but their final int wont be -quite- as high.

If they raise their int sooner, the end result will be that much higher

>>2843151
yes
physical evolutions are like this
Copper -> Silver -> Gold -> Diamond -> Mythic

Spelth and Tanis are both in Mythic, btw. With divine intelligence, so we can't evolve them anymore, just level them up

>>2843144
Alright, so we have 2 votes for raising their int

typing

We decide to pump up both Nikita and Janice's intelligence, so we choose that option, and after clicking 'yes' on the [Confirm Y/N] window, our cute pets glow softly (yup, very softly. None of that blinding light business),

Yup, their long term growth is more important than a small power boost right now. Definitively. We're best dad.

Sometimes.

Come think about it, we should probably take Matty along with us until we get a chance to raise her int and/or her physical evolutions, shouldn't we?

Let's take a look at her status window, and...

Why does she have an accessory equipped? No, I mean, we gave all of our cute pets a set of water breathing + fire resistance accessories so they can party up with Lyra and Fahima with no issues, so where did Head Accessory [Feather of Eternity] came from?

We look at the tinniest harpy. She's about as big as Adrianna. Or rather, as small as Adrianna, without the all too-big-for-her-body-frame frontal fruits,

She has an ahegao. There's just no other way to call it. It's a long and bright golden feather that looks perfectly at home between her platinum gold hair and head feathers.

Looking up its stats...

[Feather of Eternity] - Equipped creature cannot evolve.

The fuck?

>Rip it out
>Other

>>2843167
Above [Divine] is [Legendary] Intelligence, correct?
I thought there was one more tier above [Divine].

>>2843203
No, that too was me fucking up. I should do a better job of keeping notes, but when you're blind you really don't like keeping notes in the 1st place

>>2843202
>Other
We need to look at it further, maybe even check the Lightbringer Archives and the Heavenly Empire Records for legends about the [Feather of Eternity].

Not being able to Evolve might lead to some great power up, like [GAINS] does.

>>2843202

What's more, she has [Holy] intelligence, but its still at her Bronze evolution... meaning she must have gotten it at some point BEFORE we even found her.

At least it allowed us to raise her intelligence... wait, if we let it on and raise her in to [Divine], and THEN let her evolve, won't the end result be that much higher in the end?

Uh... maybe its function is just as it says, but for subtle reasons. In that case, we should just do our best to get her intelligence to go up soon

Meanwhile Kanice. Nikita and Nina have grouped up and are having an enthusiastic conversation.

Their int is already at [Divine] so they are at least as smart as any young adult's now, isn't it?

It is a little heartwarming to see that they're growing up so nicely. And, we can probably count on them to look over their little sisters.

It was, indeed, a lot to expect from Nina to supervise nine hyperactive children on her own, after all.

Yup, 1:2 or 1:3 its a lot more manageable than 1:9

"Matty, come here."
"Ye~es" - the pale blond chirps happily as she pats pats over to us and sits next to us with a FLOMP!-like sound
"Let me look at that thing on the top of your head for a bit..." - we say gently while holding her head down to look at the accessory.

It really isn't part of her. It clearly has a brooch at its base, and its clipped on discreetly, sort of like a hair extension.

I sort of want to try removing it, but have this deep suspicion that it would be better to wait until after doing some research in the matter.

"Uwaa~" - Matty seems pretty happy

She seems to think we're just rubbing her head to pet her. Well, its fine, isn't it?

>Have Janice, Nikita and Nina take their sisters to pick a room.
>Other

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Alright, updated the image with their names

>>2843249
>Have Janice, Nikita and Nina take their sisters to pick a room.

>>2843301

We are about to ask the smart three to wrangle the little ones when we remember our ring.

Taking out our [Ring of Knowledge], we get ready to look at Matty's ahegao, when we realize that just looking at -her- actually gives us a lot of useful info.

[Evolutions Ready: 10]

Uhm- well, that can't be right, can it? I mean, if she's bronze, she needs to go to silver, then gold, then diamond, and finally mythic.

The point is, there's not -that- many evolutions to go, even adding in her int-upgrade

Matty looks perfectly happy to let us rub her head, though, and cute little "waa~" and chuckles leave her little mouth every few seconds.

Finally looking straight at the [Feather of Eternity] through our ring, it says:

[Delays standard evolution to unlock alternative or unique evolution paths]

[Currently Available: Assassin, Healer, Sniper, Monsoon, Harpyja, Teraform, Byangomi, Berunda, Homa, Argentavis]

What is this, I don't even know...

>Remove the accessory and have her evolve
>Keep it there until her intelligence goes up
>Other

>>2843351
>Keep it there until her intelligence goes up
We need more Harpy chicks to try out all these different Evolution paths.

>>2843351
Well, Assassin, Healer and Sniper are standard jobs her sisters already have

Can we focus on each of the others to get an explanation, though?

Monsoon (unique archer variation) - AoE specialist ranged attacker

Harpyja (unique archer variation) - High damage single target ranged attacker

Teraform (species mutation) - melee brute with highest physical stats of all harpy evolutions. Cannot use skills

Byangomi (species mutation) - Attack Caster with four arms that can use three spells per turn

Berunda (species mutation) - Supprt Caster and melee defender with high hp and defenses

Homa (species mutation) - melee assault. Can move in, attack and retreat to safety in the same turn.

Argentavis (species mutation) - Largest harpy evolution still capable of flight. Highest stats in all attributes. Cannot use magic, but can use skills.

>>2843361
>We need more Harpy chicks to try out all these different Evolution paths.
Well, now we have three 'adults' if you wanna try breeding them, I guess

>>2843388
The problem would getting enough [Feather of Eternity] to level up and Rank Up the harpies in a timely manner.

>>2843430
Really, thats the only problem? And here i hoped someone would say "we couldnt possible lewd our cute daughterus."

>>2843388
Does the [Ring of Knowledge] give us any clue as to how to get more Feathers?

>>2843477
Then there’s considerations of Racial Bonuses; do different Harpy breeds have different stats, since they give different civilization bonuses?

>>2843479
Nope, but I guess I can tell you as a free service after fucking up so much. Sometimes a monster is just born with a rare item

>>2843484
yes but honestly the difference is only important on the first few levels. Its just too small to really make a difference.

The population bonuses ARE significant from a civilization manager point of view, but certainly not from an individual's point of view. I mean, do you care if 50000 humans give a bonus to their city? It doesnt helps YOU in combat, does it?

>>2843494
>yes but honestly the difference is only important on the first few levels
I was wondering if it affected skill or stat caps; like how in some games certain races are best for certain classes.

So we need to grind some more Beastmaster levels to increase our Menagerie slots.
We should talk with our dragons and fairies more on the topic of breeding and foods that affect offspring.
And check on the progress of Miel’s Throneship.

>>2843530
>I was wondering if it affected skill or stat caps; like how in some games certain races are best for certain classes.

Monsters follow a certain guideline for leveling up, such as gaining more agi or str, but for civilized peoples, it is more about their job and class.

Noble gets bonuses to caster classes every level, while villagers get physical bonuses. So, a noble singer has much better stats than a villager singer, if you are trying to min max.

The harpies get stats based on their race, so a level 300 roc has very different stats than a level 300 aello or a level 300 fury.

I guess it depends. If you are asking about monsters, then their current evolution determines their stats as they level up

If you are asking about civilized folks, its related to their jobs and classes.

Which reminds me, if we switch a monster into a civilized folk, their levels get redistributed, which is, I think, why we didnt do that with Lyann, since her 350+ levels in like 12 different classes would just turn her into a [Shattered]-race monster level 2900+ (exp converted, its not as easy as 12*350, oviously)

Well, we would certainly get to evolve her all at once, though, so we could pump her int to divine before having her evolve and finally have the system assign her stats.

>>2843558
Come think about it, level 2933 is nothing to sneeze at... evolutions included, she may actually squish grandpa without much hassle <.<

>>2843600
Seriously? Is Eldric really that weak?
Because right now even Stella has more levels on him.

>>2843603

He's not weak, he's stronger than 99.9999& of the population, its just that we don't 'work at leveling up' like grandpa, stella, our monsters, or lyann do.

We do a lot of other stuff too, remember?

And both Mako and Ren basically leech exp off entire (literal) armies as they harvest supplies and goods inside their nation's foodgeons.

I wouldn't call him weak.

>>2843614
I would. We should grind our Beastmaster levels high enough that we have multiple Pet parties grinding XP deep in dungeons while we have XP Bonuses and [GAINS] turned on to get double the attribute increases on level up.
If we stay outside of dungeons ourselves and have our Pets farm XP for us, we can get the benefits of [GAINS] without the threat of permadeath.

>>2843664
That sounds reasonable.

So, wanna drag Miel, Matty, Fleur, Stella and Kya along for a while as we level up BeastMaster?

>>2843673
Yes. And lets try some dungeons we haven’t done before. Maybe Lapsionia, or some of the ones in Bastion that Stella can guide us on.

And send some rock-it ships with trees to Raid Dungeons.

I want Miel to experience some of the thrill of adventuring with Eldric that they used to have.

>>2843673
>>2843690
Since we were planning to go have lunch with Stella, why not some of the harder Bastion dungeons?

>>2843706
>>2843690

Well, for the time being, let's wait until Matty's intelligence levels up before thinking about letting her evolve.

Besides, her ahegao looks cute, anyway. Cuteness is important, so its alright.

So, we ask Janice, Nikita and Nina to take their sisters and go pick rooms to stay in.

"ah~" - complains Matty gently when Nikita picks her up like a kitten and carries her off in her arms.

They are sisters, but it honestly looks like a heartwarming mather-daughter combo right now...

wawawa, let's dispel that image away.

*we shake our hand before our eyes until that illusion dissapears*

Yup, our cutesy harpies are much too young to be moms yet.

It was just that we were deceived by how cute they look, that's all.

"Those girls can really eat..." - whispers Yin as she looks at the devastated dinner table.

There's dozens of empty bowls, as well as discarded dishes and cutlery.

It should be said, the cuttlery has politely been left on top of the empty dishes. It is not a messy scene. Because mom has taught them properly.

As well as the elderly couple from the restairant they like. Thankyou very much.

"Isn't it fine? Children should be full of energy." - says Miel as she sees their retreating backs with warm eyes

That's right. Miel is an experienced mom, after all.

Alright...

>Let the servants clean the table, and go with Miel and Yin to check how the harpies are doing
>Lets go have some digestive drinks in the gardens outside
>Maybe a nice hot bath before we go back to Bastion
>Other

>>2843750
>Lets go have some digestive drinks in the gardens outside

>>2843750
>>Let the servants clean the table, and go with Miel and Yin to check how the harpies are doing

>>2843750
>Let the servants clean the table, and go with Miel and Yin to check how the harpies are doing
>Other: remember to put the two White Mantises in our Menagerie.
And our cat familiar really isn’t ours anymore, is he? I wonder if he even recognizes us as Master.

>>2844845
>And our cat familiar really isn’t ours anymore, is he? I wonder if he even recognizes us as Master.
he never did. He was always mom's cat, in many ways.

***

"...cute it might be, yet this is wrong on so many levels." - points out Miel as she looks at the winged girls

Why? Because they all agreed unanomously to roost in our bedroom, that's why. Even the three most developed ones agreed with the feeling of chickens staying close to their mother.

Thus, they are right in the middle of bringing over the beds from the other rooms.

Well, to begin with, I don't think we've ever actually slept in this ro- ah, no, we have slept here three times, but it was always a sort of post-coitus nap, wasn't it?

To our left, Yin has blushed bright red, as if she could read our thoughts.

*cough*

"Girls, please wait." - we call over and they all turn to look to us right away - "Listen, when I said you should claim a room, I meant a different room for everyone."
"Not it! I want this one. This one is Master's room!" -calls out Nina right away

A quick rush of angry cries assaults her, but she looks quite happy.

"No, a room noone else is using, you know?"

If we wanted -that- we could just let her claim a niche in the harem room back at Mako's place, you know?

"Eeeeeh!?"

As it turns out, they are all unhappy with this idea

Well, harpies are highly social beings, and their nests are usually shared by 2 or more individuals, unless one needs space to breed, so perhaps it can't be helped.

>alright, let's get some bunk beds, I guess? They can share rooms in pairs. That should be fine, right?
>No, no, they're not wild harpies anymore, they need to get used to how society works. One day they'll all go their separate ways, after all.
>Other

>>2844862
>Other: Have Mr. Li hire some carpenters to build a new Harpy nesting room that will fit all the girls.

>>2844862
They can share rooms in pairs. That should be fine, right?

Rolled 2 (1d2)

1) >>2845215
>They can share rooms in pairs. That should be fine, right?
2) >>2844886
>>Other: Have Mr. Li hire some carpenters to build a new Harpy nesting room that will fit all the girls.

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>>2845267
Alright so we're going with option 2

***

We grab Janice and Nina to help us design a comfy place for their sisters and themselves.

Why not Nikita? They played rock-papaer-scissors and she lo- I mean, won, thus she would be taking charge of the 7 little ones in the meanwhile.

Showing her [Divine]-ranked intelligence isn't there just to fill up space on her character sheet, she took them to the manor's large bath, together with several jars of honey.

Having candies and a bird ba I mean, big kiddy pool to play in, the little ones chances to get into trouble were rather minuscule.

There were several ideas floating around, including

>Taking down a few walls and making several small dormitories into a barracks-like long one with bunk beds
>Building two large tree houses
>Letting them have the master's room and moving our things to a smaller room. Maybe taking down a single wall to make two bedrooms into one.
>Other

Pic totally unrelated but i've been waiting for literal years to use it again, yet we haven't played around with Ren in exactly as long

>>2845337
>Building two large tree houses
>Other: have the two connected via a covered walkway/balcony

>>2845337
Building two large tree houses

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>>2845364
>>Other: have the two connected via a covered walkway/balcony
Dare I ask why? They can fly

>>2845405
I mean it could be so that other people can go in there?

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>>2845420
Well I assumed that each would have a entrance from the ground, so i was asking why connect the two.

Surely if we go into one of the two, all the harpies would just fly over to us

>>2845405
But what if it's raining?
And there should be a way to go easily from the main manor to the tree houses for the maids to clean the rooms.

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>>2845451
>And there should be a way to go easily from the main manor to the tree houses for the maids to clean the rooms.

You seem rather invested in having a roofed access from the manor to the tree houses... I guess its ok?

>>2845479
I want the tree houses to stylistically be a part of the manor.

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>>2845510
That seems fine, lets go with that unless someone has anything to say against it.

***

After talking about it for a while, and with Miel's help (she has a surprisingly comprehensive architechtural knowledge), we manage to come up with what is basically two expansions to the manor in the form of two houses on stilts under the shade of the two largest trees in the garden, which will be moved to the ideal position over the next week before starting to work on the houses themselves.

In paper at least, it all looks very fantasy-ish and beautiful, while still following local aesthetics.

We thank Janice and Nina with smooches and head rubs, and are about ready to go tell Nikita she doesn't has to keep babysitting the girls, when Nina tugs on our sleeve.

"Unn... Master?"
"Yes?"
"Ah... c-could I get a kiss?"
"Yes, of course." - we smooch her forehead again
"Uuuh~" - she looks unhappy with it

>Well, she's our adoptive daughter, so that's going to have to be enough
>She has grown into a beautiful and smart girl. Its fine if she asks for it.
>Other

>>2845619
>She has grown into a beautiful and smart girl. Its fine if she asks for it.
>Other: especially because she's our adoptive daughter

>>2845619
>Well, she's our adoptive daughter, so that's going to have to be enough

>>2845625
>>Other: especially because she's our adoptive daughter
You're a princess maker fan, aren't you?

gonna wait for a bit for a tie breaker, then roll

>>2845619
>Well, she's our adoptive daughter, so that's going to have to be enough

Theres enough LEWD already, its time for some PURE

>>2846053
Alright so there's our tie breaker.

***

"What is it?"
"Muu... Master always gives us little kisses. I want a big kiss, too!"
"Alright."

We give her a long smooch, and also a hug.

"Me too!" - calls out Janice
"Yes, alright."

We squeeze her gently, then give her a loong smooch.

"Yay!"

Well, they're happy now.

Yup, they're good children. Just because they -look- in their mid-to-late teens and have a nice figure, we're not going to forget they're cute children, you know?

I'm sure Zoe would like that, but no. Yes, we know Zoe's feelings, but she's a 9 years old, so she doesn't gets a say on it. She's our cute kitty little sister.

I'm sure she'll grow out of it. Eventually.

***

Meanwhile, Zoe is coughing while chocking on her milkshake.

"Are you alright?" - asks her classmate as she gets ready to stand up and pat her back.
"Ah~ I'm okay... I just feel a need to say I'm 10, not 9... for some reason."
"Un." - nods her classmate, her long bunny ears falling over her face

Dawn stops by on her way to the lab, and greets them.

"Eh? I understand that the kitty likes the milkshake, but why is the bunny eating pancakes?" - asks the strawberry succubus
"They're carrot-based..." - says the bunnygirl
"Uhmmmkay?" - Dawn turns to Zoe - "Don't take too long. We're testing the new probe, remember?"
"I know..." - Zoe sluurps her milkshake dry, then says goodbye to her friend and hurries after Dawn

***

Anyway, we give them each an extra smooch, and go check on the little ones.

We're taking Matty with us, then sending the rest back to the office with Yin, and heading back to Bastion with Miel.

***

"Welcome back, big brother!" - says Stella as we go back into the manor

She's wearing a really beautiful long dress, with a slightly-too-deep cleavage for our little sister

>Is alright, she's just trying to look adult-ish
>"Why is there a hole in your dress?"
>"Once you are done with that, can you guide us into the local dungeons?"
>Other

>>2846100
"Why is there a hole in your dress?"( in our mind)

>"Once you are done with that, can you guide us into the local dungeons?"
Time to kill things to take mind off of her become a woman.......

>>2846100
>"Once you are done with that, can you guide us into the local dungeons?"

>>2846280
>>2846215
>>"Once you are done with that, can you guide us into the local dungeons?"

Looking at his soft, caramel-skinned puppy little sister showcasing her large, soft feminine attributes for the world to see, Eldric couldn't help but to screm 'Why is there a hole in your dress!?'

In his heart.

I mean, after all, he has a basic understanding of this world's lazy designer's sense of fashion by now. This is what you'd call fantasy baroque, or maybe victorian? And despite its excessively generous boob window, the lower half of the dress really has a very elegant air to it.

Yup, we're perfectly aware that it is cynical from us, but there's a difference between having our lovely late-teens lover in a skimpy almost dress that only she will find to be lewd, and allowing our imouto to display her watermelons like fruit in the market.

Watermelons are fruits, right? I know the courts said tomatoes are fruits, but that was just so they could charge better tax for them... *cough* anyway...!

Even if the overall effect is very elegant and fashionable, we object!

Because she's a little girl, and our little sister, it is wrong!

"Ah, what is that dress for?" - we manage to ask with a calm face
"Cousin Alard gave it to me for this weekend gala! We're inaugurating an opera house!" - she says happily
"Ah, is that so?"

We're going to smack cousin Alard on the back of the head, later.

"Ah, isn't that too much dress for a 10-years old?" - we ask while gently petting her head
"Big brother!" - she protests while inflating her cheeks - "I'm thirteen!"

Eh? wait, did I hear an age ending in 'teen' just now?

Hahaha... nah, no way. *shakes hand*

Must have been hearing things.

Let's see... eight years ago, when we met her and Zoe, the kitty was 1, and the puppy was 4.

Right, therefore, 1+8=9 and 4+8=12

She was almost 5? No, that's surely a mistake. And even if she was, then that means she's only almost 13, anyway. She's still 12.

Therefore, she's still our cute little puppy girl. Definitively.

She's a (adopted) fantasy princess little girl. And in this world, those aren't considered grownups at least until they're 15, you know?

Sleeping Beauty married at 14? Nonono, that's surely a mistake, and there's noone in this world who can correct us anyway.

Besides, there's a surefire way to tell when a beastkin is reaching a nubile age, anyway.

Yup, because they can grow to their physical ideal at a young age, the world is kind enough to provide a telltale visual clue. You see, grownup ears are slightly hairy on the tips.

And stella's ears are still baby ears. They're soft and end in smooth short h... uh,,,

"Brother, what are you doing with those scissors?"
"Its nothing, don't worry. It's just that you seem to have some hairs there that shouldn't be, so I'm going to snip snip and make it alright."
"Uuuh... d-don't let scissors near my ears, that's scary!" - she says as she covers her ears with both hands.

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>>2846361

"No no. It's not scary at all. You've gotten haircuts before, right?"
"Y-yes...?"
"So then, there's no problem."
"Muu... don't cut my hair. I spent all morning with an stylist."

Ah, we must be hearing things as well as seeing things. It sounded like our tomboyish puppy sister said she spent longer than 20 seconds with a professional stylist.

That's it. We're just seeing and hearing things. Yup, that must be it, because there's no way our Stella is actually starting to approach a point where she can be called something other than a cute child. No way.

Having cleared that out, we store away our scissors, which seems to calm down Stella a great deal.

Yup, that liiittle tiny bit of hair at the tip of her ears must be just an illusion we're seeing for some reason. Yup.

*cough*

"Stella, would you like to go to a dungeon with big brother?"
"Yes! I'd like that!" - she perks up right away, her fluffy tail going wag wag behind her
"Alright, then let me know when you've changed out of that dress, alright?"
"Alright!"

She picks up the hem of her dress, and runs away upstairs.

Yup, that's the energetic tomboy we love so much.

Ah, let's just check, just in case. Let's peek at her through our ring just so it can show us how silly we've been. Stella is going to be 12 forever. Obviously

Stella Lightbringer Crownguard
Lupus Regis (Wolfkin) - Age 13

Ah...

...I need to repair this silly ring.

"Master, what is it? You're making a weird expression."
"No, I just didn't know magical items needed tuning from time to time..."
"They do?" - asks Matty while looking at us
"I guess they do?" -comments Miel

>"Apparently so."
>Slap ourselves and deal with reality
>Other

>>2846408
>Slap ourselves and deal with reality
>Other: come to the self-realization of how pathetic we’ve become, worse than the old geezers who spent decades planning to kill thousands of people on a stupid idea that they didn’t even test to see if it had a chance of working or exploring alternatives because they were too academically challenged to think beyond their narrow meat-headed view of the world.

>>2846416
I think you're being too hard over something that's meant to be funny,

Anyway, it took me a while to find a dancing wolf girl. I did found a brown one but that video is too T&A and little more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7I-z-s3Mg&feature=youtu.be

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