Questionable Questing

Honestly there's nothing that quite fits the same niche that I've ever found. The closest would be various empire quests, but you're probably aware of that general genre.

Persimmon

You never seemed to be on Plan Battle Angel... Other than dragging us into political involvement, why else do you dislike it?

inverted_helix

Dragging us into political involvement is a big issue. However my other issue is that everyone seems to expect we can just lewd mind bend our wife into submission. Battle Angels are women with centuries of experience and people explicitly try that against them. I expect it to fail utterly with them being pissed.

inverted_helix

Another issue is that it requires waiting for years for our genius to be apparent to attract one and hope we don't run into problems from our existing candidates in the meantime.

inverted_helix

It's just sheer hope that there's a decent candidate as well. We have no one lined up.

Persimmon

To summarize:
-Politics
-Potential lack of control or even "hand" in relationship
-Uncertain timeframe
-Unknown, unevaluated candidates

A solid argument.

Persimmon

Did not see that coming.

inverted_helix

Honestly not even sure if I want to continue reading the quest.

I mean I read plenty of Isekai, but throwing in such an element into this story is just so painful.

Persimmon

Ideally Farela/Natala/Eris for maximal research stacking? I'm really unsure we could manage all 3 though, so which duo would we pick to be safe?

inverted_helix

At this point I would accept an RNG result just for the wife fight to end.

I personally favor Farela/Eris though simply because I think Farela/Natala/Eris would be too hard to achieve.

inverted_helix

There wrote up how I'd try to go about achieving the Farela/Natala/Eris option. The straightforward route where if it fails there's minimal backlash. If it succeeds the costs are manageable.

Persimmon

Pretty much how I'd try it; research/knowledge bribery + 'sincerity'.

On that note, I'm wondering why everyone is so ridiculously worked up over the waifu wars when it might not even be a good idea to get married; if we hit Body Purification in 3 years we could attract waifus of greatly increased quality.

inverted_helix

Well we can't wait that long or Eralin becomes our wife by default when she reaches elemental mage, and that would cause problems with the clan. Unless we could somehow convince her to hide it. But no one seems confident in getting her to do that without hurting her feelings.

inverted_helix

Also personally I want to try to hide our power until we're well on our way to Rank 5 so that we're not assassinated right after Body Purification. So not interested in revealing right away.

inverted_helix

At this point I'm definitely serious about being okay with RNG result on the waifu war. Though I'm kind of sad that it seems to be increasingly likely that Eris, the one I like most, will end up being dropped.

Persimmon

I just hope the plan to sandbag at 50 power/year doesn't win... I'd probably get bored and quit the quest.

inverted_helix

I've no shame admitting Eris is just the one I like the most regardless of actual benefits. I'm not fond of socialites or yanderes. The teased to pieces repressed girl I really like.

In terms of sandbagging I don't suspect it would be boring like you think. We haven't been growing even at 50 power a year yet and have still been a packed schedule.

Persimmon

"Stop questioning my retcon and balance decisions!"

inverted_helix

I had to take a step back for now because his reply upset me quite a bit.

I mean his response had the obvious counter that if he'd done that it would mean the creation options were outright *lying* because the spirit garden and spirit farm options specified that our clan set them up.