Re: [SLG] Jack-o-nine-tails
Here is a small guide to Johny (aka the ultimate sissy boy, the black hole of patheticness).
He is the character that makes the other characters look good, prepare for maximum save scrumming,
once you play him you are going to enjoy all other characters( Except Milord who is gay).
If you start right off and try to buy a slave and train her you are going to be wholly unprepared, so what is the first step? well obviously we are going to patrol the border of fog.
Now you might have played the Blade and got your ass kicked don't worry you are going to get your ass kicked even more(thus the save scrumming).
Go to the armory and buy yourself a bastard sword, then go to the boutique and buy from the menswear an Aketon jacket. As for armor, who has the sparks for that?
Go and sleep until you have enough energy (4-5 stars) and go to the Colosseum.
Here you are going to grind until you get some strength. From here you can also going to get special attacks.
I have gone with roundhouse>battecry>swift blow.
Depending on the weapon this might not be optimal.
The great secret to combat is in alignment(or multipliers).
Every attack can either cause a buff or debuff or deal double damage for attack of the same color.
So what you want is to align an attack to cause the biggest damage of the same color.
A simple example is while you have furry(2x red) while the enemy is unbalanced(2x red) and the enemy is blocking(2x red) if you strike it with a roundhouse special skill(lots of damage) he is toast.
You can kill pretty high level monsters with this.
To defend yourself want to use halve damage buffs and debuffs.
Slow and steady is also good for more manageable opponents.
You generally only want to strike with same attack color as there defense only when you have so power backing you(multipliers).
For defense I usually leave it green since you get a buff at the start of combat with this character(from fetish or vigor?)
After you grind a bit the Colosseum you want to patrol the fog.
This where you are mostly going to save scrum, you generally want small to medium fog tentacles or a vampire,
you might be able to challenge a werewolf if you get the the roundhouse and battlecry but not much. Fight with multiple opponents is off the table until you get some medium armor.
The problem is going to be that you will get both hurt and your slaves that you capture are going to be cheap from the slave market(if you manage any profit thats good after you subtract your wound healing)
When you patrol the fog you can get martial arts pretty quickly to soldier(blue).
Also try to clean your house from time to time.
After barely managing to make ends meet its time to go to the slave guild and try to get a gladiator contract.
But first go to the boutique and get the other menswear, this are you basic skill unlocks by giving you a +1 bonus to whatever you are wearing. Get especially the Livery.
You want an easy to train slave, less pride, less temperament, less sensibility.
If they are not healthy you might want to reload, do not go for feeble for contracts.
Try to train your slave to cleaning and secretary so that you grow your housekeeping(cooking, cleaning, secretary) to blue.
With this you can do assistants/secretaries.
The problem is the slaves are sometimes going to run away and you can't whip/torture/rope so you have to be "amicable" and reload. Find some traits to exploit.
Talking is pretty effective. If they are healthy they can generally take a few bruises and scars can be removed in the technosphere.
After this you are about on the level of the other characters so you can train slaves and fulfill requests,
move out of the slums and finally buy armor( you can get one from the assistant in the slums), buy a Flamberge or try the other weapons.