DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest

You are Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, mostly-undisputed ruler of the Tri-State Area and master of at least a sizable portion of what you survey. You have worked your way up from nothing, to somewhat more than nothing, and have come to be a driving force in the American west. You run the most powerful corporation to ever put the word 'Evil' in its name. You are an incredible mad scientist, master of every known discipline and at least four you made up yourself. And today, you are conducting job interviews.

Some might question the logic in having the CEO conduct the interviews for a janitorial position. These people are fools. Working as the Head Janitor for Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated world headquarters requires skills that few people have, in conditions less people can fathom, with criteria you alone can discern. This is why you have activated the many many booby traps that line the hallway to your office.

It was a masterwork of trap craft, if you do say so yourself. Spinning floor tiles, waist-high quicksand pits, taser beams, electromagnets, no less than three Inators worked into the system and a few classic pit traps, just to respect the art.

Such a shame that so few people managed to get past it. And the ones that did, ugh! Most of them started yelling at you for some odd reason, which of course was an immediate dealbreaker. You'd been sitting in your office for hours now, working on plans for your next Inator, listening to the sounds of the gravity springboard doing its job, and were beginning to lose hope that you'd ever find a suitable candidate.

Then, the systems stopped. You couldn't hear the sound of the flex manacles, or the steel net launchers, or even the Bag-Over-Your-Head-Inator. It was as if the entire super-trap system had collectively held its breath.

Curious, you stand up and walk over to your door. You hunch down to listen, putting an ear to the lacquered mahogany. That's when you hear it. A single word, uttered from the other end of the hall. A word rich with promise.

"Gawrsh."

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Doofquest is a game where you play Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

…alright, maybe a bit more is in order.

In the World of DVV Gridlocked, A great many Disney Villains got through their shows and movies intact, and they won. But this isn't a fairy tale. The world is a near-future United States lorded over by modern-day villains like the sinister Syndrome, the diabolical Judge Doom of Who Framed Roger Rabbit fame… and… I've got no alliteration for Xanatos.

Major corporations wield outsized power, and jockey in the shadows with each other and with the battered but still very much alive federal government. Magical creatures, alien invaders, and strange things from beyond our dimension lurk in the shadows, kept there not only by their own efforts but by the tacit agreement of those in power seeking to keep things stable just another day.

Look, it's like Shadowrun with Disney characters. Okay? Okay.

You are playing as one of those villains who won; Heinz Doofenshmirtz, fresh off of (not really) conquering (most of) the Tri-State Area. Your colors fly on every building, your robots patrol the streets, and Perry the Platypus is dead.

None of this is bringing you the happiness you thought it would. In fact, you try not to think about that last thing at all, when you can avoid it.

You won. Now what?

Every King in DVV Won, for some definition of winning. They got what they wanted. But most of them... found it wasn't quite what they expected. Every single King, since that fateful day, has been grappling with the question: Now What?

Different people had different answers. Bellwether and Khan spend most of their time arguing with each other over respective ideology and politics. The Yokai got his revenge, looked at the emptiness on the other side, and decided... this couldn't be it. He wasn't done. An inhuman machine poised to enslave humanity finished one phase of the plan, and moved unfeelingly on towards the next. Shego has no idea what to do with herself.

Doofenshmirtz caught the car he was chasing, and now he struggles to know what to do with it, and indeed struggles to understand what it even is he's done.

Doofenhsmirtz is still not quite ready to recognize it, but... that summer ended. Another summer started. And now he has to ask himself a very, very important question.

What is Disney Villains Victorious?

This quest will be based on a campaign setting (DVV: Gridlocked) where all your favorite Disney villains won and rule the world! Only this isn't a fairy tale- it's the Gridlocked expansion, which means a near-future United States torn apart by the sinister Syndrome, the diabolical Judge Doom… and… I've got no alliteration for Xanatos. Look, it's like Shadowrun with Disney characters. Okay? Okay.

The World at Large

The world of the quest may seem superficially similar to our own, but there are several things about it that make the setting unique. You will learn more about the world and its history as the quest progresses.

Superpowers

There are some men and women who can rise above mortal limitations and exhibit extraordinary capabilities, whether through biological or technological means. While the term for such individuals has historically been 'super', 'capes' has seen rising popularity in recent years after many people seemed to realize that you do not, in fact, need superpowers to be a hero or villain- technology works just as well, or even better in some instances. This has seen some quiet support online from various social media platforms, as apparently some people do not appreciate technology being slighted.

Superpowers range from the generic to the more esoteric, although there have been very few 'city breaking' levels of power recorded. There's certainly no Superman equivalent, even the strongest of the flying bricks can't even approach light speed. Most criminals and the heroes that respond to them are street tier at best, and if they're capable of punching above their weight class very few people document it.

Thanks to the omnibus Superhero Relocation Act, biological Supers are exempt from Good Samaritan laws, considered illegitimate vigilantes, and can expect to be bankrupted and worse if their secret identities are ever exposed. Different regions have different degrees of enforcement of the Act: Kronos territory ruthlessly enforces the SRA, while California turns a blind eye to super activity and Drakktek states like Colorado openly flout the law.

Toons

Toons, short for Cartoons, are creatures of ink and whimsy created when an animator truly, deeply believes in their art. While no one knows exactly how toons come to be, come to be they do, full of vim and vigor and a desire to entertain. Most, though not all, toons entertain through comedy, and cannot resist a good joke or a chance to make others smile and laugh. Incredibly resilient, toons have a small degree of reality-warping called Toonforce, and can dish out and withstand incredible degrees of damage without actually killing anyone. Most toons would never dream of seriously injuring another person, and they themselves can be permanently killed only by the acetone-turpentine mix known as Dip.

Just like in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Toons have a well-documented presence in the world. Unlike most strange or supernatural things, Toons are well known, if not exactly popular. Toons were once the biggest thing in entertainment, but several high profile murders by once-beloved toon star Roger Rabbit, followed by the destruction of Toontown LA to make way for the Interstate highway system, have scattered and marginalized them. A few stars of yesteryear like Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny may still be scraping by, but even famous toons can be found desperate for work.

Some toons can be very similar to their on-screen personas, rather like method acting taken to the extreme, but other toons are quite different in their private lives than the characters they played in theaters.

Anthropic Animals

Several cities on the West Coast are populated by walking talking animals. While the line between funny animal and toon can sometimes be unclear, anthropic animals generally do not possess a toon's obsession with comedy or physical resilience. For all intents and purposes, they are furrier- or featherier- people. They are mostly found in the regions of Calistota, Zootopia State, and Cape Suzette.

Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Following the work of renowned, if eccentric, roboticist Trevor Trengrove, basic AI has begun to promulgate throughout the world. The Trengrove 'Funtelligence' system (referred to as the positronic brain by anyone with an ounce of self-respect) is capable of basic conversational skills, problem solving, and very limited adaptation. While not quite enough to pass the Turing test, high-end AIs closer than not to sentience are beginning to pop up, especially in San Fransokyo. Even your very own Normbots, while based on your own AI research and not Trengrove's stupidly-named system, are basically at-par with his work. Norm may be a real swell guy, but a stunning conversationalist and improviser he is not. Rumors of more advanced, truly sentient robots persist, but so far you've not been able to track down any examples.

The Masquerade

'The Masquerade' is a general term used to describe the many secret worlds that are hidden throughout Gridlocked America, that people 'in the know' are aware of but the average joe is not. There are two big secrets in the country that most Kings know about: The existence of magic, and the existence of aliens. There may be other hidden worlds as well, places and people even most Kings have no idea of. Details on these hidden worlds are something you'll have to find out through research…

Or you could just read the setting lore. Cheaters.

Magic

You are almost certain magic exists. I mean, why else would all of Drusselstein require lawn gnomes to ward off wood witches and gremlins? Regardless, if you want to get any real specifics on what magic is, how it works, and who has it, you're going to have to look into things.

Aliens

Likewise, aliens probably exist. You remember that Meep guy, and besides that it's just statistics, come on. Your ideas for spaceflight are unfortunately primitive at the moment, but you might one day be able to see what is out there yourself. Hopefully it's friendly!

The Government

Despite you openly declaring yourself Supreme Overlord of the Two-And-A-Half-State Area, the United States remains under the control of its primary governing body… at least in theory. In practice, the leaders of the megacorporations dotted around the map exert more power than the federal government can muster, but the average civilian wouldn't suspect anything is up. The government puts much effort into keeping its own weakness secret, and the powerful in Gridlocked mostly oblige them. No king wants to be fighting in an all out war, and so they're more or less willing to do things subtly. Even most of your citizens probably see you as a joke or a parody villain rather than an actual dictator. This may chafe at your ego, but trying to make people really take you seriously might draw the ire of what's left of ol' Uncle Sam.

Paradoxes

Throughout the quest, you might notice that some things don't exactly line up. Dates may contradict each other, events could've happened in the past that outright invalidate others, and some people could inexplicably be holding positions of power for decades despite not looking a day over thirty. Rest assured that these are not just multiple simultaneous mistakes on the part of the QM- there's an actual in-universe explanation for this.

Turn Mechanics

Each turn will encompass everything done over a two-month period in game. There will be a total of six turns in a year, and certain actions may be locked or unlocked depending on the time period.

National Actions are actions that further your goals and standing in the world. They encompass everything from spying on a neighbor, performing acts of industrial sabotage, building a new sewer system, or making exciting new leaps in technology. They fall into one of five categories- martial, diplomacy, stewardship, intrigue, or learning. In each turn you have a limited number of actions in each category. This limit may be raised in the future through special actions.

You have a number in each of these stats, which represent how good you are at that area of expertise. You can find a rough chart of what each of these numbers means below:







The base roll for a National Action will be as follows, rolling against a certain DC:

1d100 + Relevant stat of Doofenshmirtz + half relevant stat of relevant Councilor + relevant stat of assigned hero + trait bonuses of Doof or assigned hero + loyalty bonus of hero+omake bonus

The base benefits and costs of a national action are listed in that action, but the exact narrative effects might be adjusted slightly depending on who you assign to what action. For an example, if you assigned Janna to a Learning roll, Doofenshmirtz would have to do most of the work on that himself since Janna does not have much learning. As such, narratively he and Janna would be spending a lot of time together, and Janna would likely become bored of all the science talk, to potential results.

It is possible to increase the stats of Doof, his councilors, and his other hero units over time, either through special actions, going on Quests, or other means.

Critical Rolls

Particularly successful or unsuccessful rolls are considered Critical Successes or Critical Failures. Your chance of critical success is defined as 1/10th of your chance of success, rounded to the nearest percent. Your chance of critical failure is now defined as 1/10 of the chance to fail, rounded to the nearest percent. To illustrate:

If you have a 20% chance of success: 8% chance crit fail, 2% chance crit success
If you have a 50% chance of success: 5% crit fail, 5% crit success
If you have 80%: 2% crit fail, 8% crit success

No matter what else might affect your crits, you cannot Critically Fail at a greater percentage than you could normally fail. If you have a CoS of 3%, your Crit Success chance cannot be more than 3% as well.

A critical success represents an action going as well as it could have, and grants extra benefits. A critical failure represents an action going as badly as it could have, and leads to some additional penalty beyond simply failing an action.

As always, what character you place on a roll can affect how it plays out and cause knock-on effects. A geneticist critting on a genetics roll for example is likely to provide a much more impressive breakthrough than a spy assigned to the same action, and indeed a spy's crit success bonus might have more to do with hiding your genetics activity than expanding it. Toons are likely to stumble into success through odd coincidences. Likewise, a crit fail is likely to be informed by 'what foible or weakness of this character would cause them to screw up massively, and how would that play out?'

As Learning actions tend to have very specialized categories without easily-transferable skills, learning actions by default have a 5% increased crit failure chance if the unit assigned is not a specialist in that area. This applies to both councilors and heroes.

Bare Failures

Bare failures occur when you miss a roll by 10 or less. Narratively, you nearly succeeded but were stymied in some small but critical way. On a bare failure, the DC of the action is halved, and you may attempt it again next turn.

If an action is neither a success, a crit success, a bare failure, nor a critical failure, it is a normal Failure. Generally speaking, nothing happens.

Explosions

If you roll a crit success, you roll another d100 as an explosion, with the same crit success threshold. On another crit success, it becomes a double crit. A theoretical triple crit is again possible, and so on. Each successive crit threshold causes increasingly ludicrous degrees of success.

There are no crit failure explosions.

Personal Actions

Personal actions are actions that each individual hero unit can attempt per turn. Normally, these are simple things that range from talking to people, social networking, meeting up and trying to improve relationships, or even something as mundane as seeing a movie. These actions may potentially unlock new research options or hero units, as well as increasing your employees' loyalty.

In lieu of a personal action, a hero unit may be assigned to a single national action per turn. This will add their relevant stat value to the roll.

As Dr. Doofenshmirtz, you will have a total of four personal actions per turn. They may be spent as you wish, but if you so choose you can burn three of your personal actions on giving a project your "special attention". This means that we will roll for the action twice, with relevant modifiers included, and take the better of the two rolls.

For most normal personal actions, a flat 1d100 will be rolled, with higher numbers indicating a greater degree of success. While 'critical failure' and 'critical success' are not specifically defined, rolling extremely high or extremely low will still cause the action to go as well or as poorly as it possibly could have. Particularly dangerous or chaotic personals will be signposted.

Hero Units

Regardless of their actual morality, 'heroes' refer to notable individuals under your employ that can be assigned to certain tasks. While you have legions of nameless, faceless employees keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes, heroes are what make the magic happen- perhaps literally in some cases.

You started off the quest with one Hero under your employ, and through various actions others can be recruited to your cause. Sometimes this will be as straightforward as a Diplomacy action, while other times entire questlines of successive actions will have to be completed. You might even unlock heroes through some personal actions if you make the right ones.

Heroic units are not static and will react to your actions as they occur. Being excessively cruel might earn you the ire of some individuals under your employ, while others might be impressed by it. If treated poorly enough certain heroes might end up leaving or even betraying you! Conversely, treating heroes well may gain you their loyalty, along with potential new perks to use, or in some cases new hero units or technology as well. There is always the risk of exceptionally unstable individuals acting against your interests regardless, so you may need to balance this risk with any benefits they may offer- a mad scientist who offers +60 learning just might be worth it, even if he's liable to freak out and set fire to things unprovoked.

Preferences

Hero Units have Preferences, or things they like or don't like. Assigning them to preferences they enjoy is likely to boost their opinion over time, while preferences they dislike will do the opposite. Particularly strong negative preferences might prevent you from assigning certain heroes to an action at all.

Opinion

All of your hero units will have an opinion value assigned to them that reflects how well they look upon you and how willing they are to do as you ask. For most units, this starts at 0 and can range from -100 to 100. A value of 0 to -25 indicates that the unit mildly dislikes you- nothing too serious for now, and it won't cause any harmful actions against you, but you might want to watch out to make sure it doesn't get worse. At -25 and beyond they will actively start hating you, and may make moves to pack up and leave at the earliest possible opportunity. Values of -75 or worse are when they will probably start to contemplate murder- at this point they deeply despise you and will actively attempt to work against you. Conversely, values above 25 will have them consider you a mild acquaintance, above 50 as a friend, and above 75 will reach the sort of trust it takes years of camaraderie to earn.

Even an opinion of 100 might not be enough to convince your units to do certain things- if your own mother came to you and asked you to pick up a gun and invade Spain single handedly, for example, you'd probably still say no even if you did like her. Character preferences can be mitigated by high opinion, but they will still have their own minds and can still say no to things that deeply violate their beliefs, common sense, or well-being.

Various modifiers can act upon this. An intern you hire on may have a +15 modifier for giving them a job they really need, while a government employee could have a -20 modifier for you flouting the government's authority. Modifiers like these are permanent until some event removes or alters them- the government employee won't change too much just because you invite him to a few cocktail parties, for instance, but if you prove to him that his loyalty is genuinely deserved he might lose the malus.

Pay attention to your heroes' Preferences! Forcing someone to work on a job they despise will give them a mild malus that will decay in a few months… unless you actively force them to keep working on that, in which case the modifiers stack, and the time it takes to remove will increase. Hiring a botanist and forcing them to work on organic chemistry will not go over well!

There's an advantage to keeping your heroes as loyal to you as possible. When making a roll, their loyalty will be reflected in a bonus modifier. A rating of -25 to 0 or 0 to 25 gives you an additional 10% of their relevant stat for that roll either subtracted or added, respectively. 25-49 will give you 15% added, 50-74 20%, and 75-100 25%. Numbers will be rounded down to the nearest whole.

If you have a hero with an Intrigue of 32 and a Loyalty of 15, they will gain a 32*0.1 rounded down bonus, or 3. The total roll will be:


1d100 + Doof's Intrigue + 32 + (32*.1=3.2, rounded down to 3) + any other relevant modifiers


You can find your Hero Units on the Hero Units pages.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/doofquest-a-disney-villains-victorious-ck2-style-quest.68764/#post-15995779
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/doofquest-a-disney-villains-victorious-ck2-style-quest.68764/page-683#post-16980315


Your Stuff

Company-Wide Bonuses

Several organizations or things you control grant you permanent bonuses that affect your entire company. Find them on the Behold, My Stuff page.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/doofquest-a-disney-villains-victorious-ck2-style-quest.68764/page-1426#post-17824864

Funds and Income

Since you start out as the head of a megacorp, money will be no issue for the most part. I won't be tracking specific dollar amounts, so you should always assume that you have enough money unless you seriously screw things up. Of course, money can't buy everything, and some people won't be willing to sell. The DC for a corporate buyout, for instance, would be more indicative of liquidating some of your assets and attending boardroom meetings rather than trying to come up with the cash. Instead, the way we track your financial resources are Funds and Income.

You can find more information about Funds and Income on your Behold, My Stuff page.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/doofquest-a-disney-villains-victorious-ck2-style-quest.68764/page-1426#post-17824864

Items

Items are objects or creatures in your possession that give useful bonuses. Some are permanent, others are single-use. All items are listed on the Behold, My Stuff page.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/doofquest-a-disney-villains-victorious-ck2-style-quest.68764/page-1426#post-17824864

Inators

Inators are incredible machines that can casually violate the laws of physics, but they come with their own set of downsides. For starters, inators are unable to be mass produced, nor are you able to casually gain an understanding of a new technology through them. It may be possible for your less-than-mad scientists to reverse engineer the machines and bypass chunks of research, but more likely than not this will be a long and arduous process.

You automatically create a random new inator every turn and may choose to activate it if you desire. You must choose to do so as part of your overall turn plan, before you know what Inator you get. The result of this could be anything from a bonus to certain actions, a reroll of a low die, or new opportunities presenting themselves. Unfortunately, this also runs the risk of some less-than-stellar results happening as well, from one-time stat penalties to events you will need to deal with.

Mechanically, we have a list of inators and roll a die to choose which one you make in a turn. There are slightly more good Inators than bad ones, but it's a close thing. Write-in ideas are allowed, but there's no guarantee that your inator will be accepted. While we've had some fun with things like the Probabilitor-inator in the past, from now on we're not going to do anything that works on that scale, due to balance reasons and the inherent difficulty that would come with a miniature overhaul for that turn.

As a general rule of thumb, think about what you want this inator to do. If it affects things on a grand scale- like the flow of time, the entire galaxy, or alternate dimensions- it will most likely be rejected. Even if something showed up in the show, some things just don't fit well in a coherent, serialized setting instead of a gag-a-week show.

We have enough Inator ideas at this point that they will likely last us the quest; for this reason, and the fact that we sort inators into categories ourselves now, you dont have to submit paired and equal inators. Submit any inators you want, good or bad! The downside is that, given how many we have, we're likely to be selective here on out.

Narratively, you create dozens of Inators every turn that have no mechanical effect. Activating An Inator simply ensures enough effort goes into them that one of them lasts longer than a summer afternoon.

Global Actions
Global Actions are actions that multiple factions can contribute to, either in cooperation or competition.

Most Global Actions now have a range from its DC to a negative DC. For example, from 250 to -250. All Global Actions contribute their rolls towards a given action's total. The positive and negative DC will each have different outcomes when they are reached! You can generally choose which outcome you wish to move towards, as can anyone else who attempts to them.

Some Global Actions track who has contributed the most towards it, and will reward the greatest effort!

Some Global Actions have their DCs drop over time.

Lobbying Mechanics
So you want to buy a law, eh?

Well prepare for a complex legalistic minefield of bureaucratic red tape! Successfully passing a law within the byzantine corridors of modern american legalism requires front organizations, targeted lawsuits, promises of self-regulation, evidence muddling, charitable contributions, and blame shifting.

And frequently bribery.

Thankfully you have people to do all that stuff for you which means that you can basically summarize what you actually care about to a handful of paragraphs.

Lobbying Actions are Diplomacy actions meant to try and convince the US Government (or, rarely, something else) to change its laws and policies. Anything from the lowering of the corporate tax rate to the acknowledgement of AI as full sentience, to name the two ends of the spectrum of your council's demands. These actions are Global Actions.

Don't expect to get laws passed without some pushback, though! Not all of your proposed policy changes will be popular with other movers and shakers, meaning that policies can be both supported OR opposed by other factions.

Any given lobbying action has a range from its DC to a negative DC. For example, from 250 to -250. If a Lobbying Action reaches Its DC, the law is passed, and you gain its effects! If the issue reaches its negative DC, then either A. an alternate version of the law will be passed that has an opposite effect, or B. the Action will be removed entirely, and cannot be re-attempted!

There are two ways to accomplish this. First, you may choose to roll a DC 0 Diplomacy action. The roll you get from this action is added towards the DC (or subtracted, if you are opposing an issue.) Rolling a 60+21+5 for example means you add 86 to the issue's progress. Alternatively, you may spend a 1 fund Corporate action (in addition to the usual cost of additional corporate actions) to lobby for an issue. If you do so, you gain a ticking +50 (or -50) that continues every turn until the issue is resolved. You may take this corporate action a maximum of 3 times ever for a given issue.

As a result of these rules, it will be a fairly simple matter to push forward issues no one else cares about; but trying to push an issue many others are in opposition to will require allies; and fast!

Factions may start lobbying on their own, or be drawn into a lobbying conflict when other people begin drawing attention to an action.

Lobbying DCs range from DC 200 to DC 999.

You may take a certain Diplomacy action to determine where all factions stand on a particular issue, or spend the personal action of a hero with a diplomacy of 20 or higher to gain the opinion on an issue of a single faction.

Infiltration Mechanics

There are three levels of info security a piece of information can be held at, assuming it is being hidden at all, depending on the degree to which it can reasonably be disguised.

Tier 1: Information available by necessity to rank-and-file DEI employees, ex. Upcoming construction projects, major purchases, and other projects that require large-scale work.

Tier 2: Information or resources provided only to your hero units. Ex. The existence of magic, other dimensions, most of your research options, your secretive black ops work.

Tier 3: Information held only by you and your direct Council. Ex. The fact that you have Flubber samples for research, the location of your Crystal Key, etc.

Note that things can change security levels- for example, on the turn a unit is working on the Other-Dimensionator, the Crystal Key must logically be in hero unit hands until the thing is complete and will thus be at level 2. Information is much harder to put back in its box than an object, obviously.

Likewise, there are three levels of infiltration.

In Tier 1 infiltration, you have placed informants and potential saboteurs into a company.

In Tier 2 infiltration, you have successfully infiltrated the enemy's hero unit list, either by embedding a hero unit of your own or simply gaining a great degree of knowledge about the target's operation.

In Tier 3 infiltration, you have penetrated the enemy's inner circle of secrets and knowledge. Do note that if a faction has no council-equivalent or is small enough to not need one, this level is impossible. Small or command-focused factions are fundamentally slightly more secure than larger ones. In practice though this level is very hard to reach and its unlikely anyone but Xanatos will manage to do it to you unless you make some ill-thought council choices, especially regarding Opinion.

Infiltration
Infiltrating an Organization

The base DC to infiltrate at Tier 1 is:
Base Infiltration DC= 50+Intrigue of King or Councilor equivalent+Relevant traits and company bonuses-penalties.

Succeeding at an infiltration creates an infiltration level in the faction. A bare failure accomplishes nothing but does reduce the DC for next time as normal. A failure alerts the relevant faction that someone is snooping around, but not who. A Critical Failure reveals your actions.

Each higher tier of infiltration increases the DC by 50. However, having the lower level in place reduces the DC by 25, for a total increase of only 25.

You will not be able to infiltrate a faction unless you have already set up a spy network in the relevant area (Red Car, Olympia Network, etc).

The base DC will also be used when you are infiltrating with a purpose- say, trying to steal an item or discover a specific secret rather than performing a general infiltration. For every rank of security your target is behind, add 25 to the DC. For every rank of infiltration you have, reduce it by 25 (canceling out a level of security). Then we add whatever logical bonuses or penalties might be in place for a certain target, and there we go.

If this all sounds complicated don't worry, it's our job to do all this math. We're just letting you know how all this is calculated from now on instead of the previous 'eyeball it'.

So let's use DEI as an example.

We start with our base 50. Mirage has higher Intrigue than Doofenshmirtz, so we add her 31 (soon to be increased, but I'm using the numbers currently on the sheet). Diseased Lunatic grants a +7 to this DC.

So the base DC to infiltrate DEI is 50+31+7=88. In addition, Gary the Goozim grants a -5 to the target's roll if they are operating within DEI headquarters.

Stealing the Zero-Point technology was a tier 2 security action, granting +50 to the roll, so under this system the DC to perform what happened last turn was 138. However, each rank of infiltration the target had accomplished reduces that by 25.

If you think you can pull it off, you can always try to infiltrate at a high level right away. In addition, if you choose to place a hero unit onto an infiltration action, they will automatically achieve tier 2 infiltration a turn after tier 1.

What Infiltration Does
Beyond just reducing Intrigue DCs.

Level 1 Infiltration

• At level 1, you will gain an expanded rival report of the target. Some actions not known to the public will begin showing up on your rival reports. A hero gets you more than a robot gets you more than a faceless network.
• At level 1, you may gain knowledge of items or research that are ripe for theft. A hero gets you more than a robot gets you more than a faceless network.

Level 2 Infiltration
At level 2, you may begin to know about the target's attempted actions before they take them. A hero gets you more than a robot gets you more than a faceless network.


At Level 2, you begin to gain Infiltration Actions. You get 3 Infiltration actions per year.
Infiltration actions can be used to accomplish various sneaky things, some of which you can otherwise only do by spending National Actions! Infiltration Actions roll Doof's Intrigue OR Councilor Intrigue + Infiltrated Hero's Intrigue + Loyalty. If you have not placed a hero (or dopplebot, for lesser effect) onto the infiltration, you roll without a hero's bonus.

Some infiltration actions have no significant risk of discovery, while others result in a chance that your actions are noticed. The DC of infiltration actions is based on the Infiltration DC of the target, and is not (universally) reduced by level of infiltration, unlike National Actions.

Many of these Infiltration actions can be done as a write-in national action if you want to make absolutely sure it succeeds or do not have a hero assigned to the infiltration.

Espionage Actions
No chance of discovery

• Increase the DC of an action targeting your own territory (ex 'establish a spy network in Doofania')
  • DC: Base Infiltration
• Gain a +15 general bonus to National Actions (not Infiltration Actions) targeting the faction for the next 3 turns
  • DC: Base Infiltration
• Learn a King's current secret actions
  • DC: Base Infiltration, potentially modified by degree of secrecy.
• Reveal a King's unique mechanics
  • DC: Base Infiltration

Small chance of discovery

• Steal an item/research, gaining it for yourself (and removing or increasing the difficulty of the target using it themselves)
  • DC: Base Infiltration, modified by degree of secrecy.
• Incapacitate a Hero Unit, distracting, confusing or harming them and putting them out of commission for 2 turns.
  • DC: Base Infiltration+Hero Unit's Intrigue
• Sabotage an action the target is taking next turn (if you are aware of it), increasing its DC by 30 and its critical failure chance by 15.
  • DC: Base Infiltration+30
• Learn a target's major secrets (Evelyn Deavor has superpowers, Syndrome is murdering Supers, Toffee is an interdimensional warlord); grants only one at a time.
  • DC: Base Infiltration, modified by degree of secrecy (Infiltration actions cannot crit fail, barring risk of discovery)

Level 3 Infiltration
Level 3 Infiltration grants you access to new Infiltration actions, and drops the DC of all Tier 2 infiltration actions by 25.

• Remove a Hero Unit (extremely high chance of discovery)
  • DC: Base Infiltration+Hero Unit's Intrigue+10
• Assault a King (guaranteed discovery) Requires multiple actions
  • Final DC will not be revealed until it is time to take the final action.

Discovery
If you are discovered while infiltrating, you do not lose your infiltration. However, your target becomes aware that 'DEI' is infiltrating them, and their security sweep national actions will be much more likely to root you, specifically, out.

Fallback Actions

In addition, the topic of stealing provides us with the chance to talk about what we now call Fallback Actions.

Sometimes, you perform an action that is risky. Even a regular failure might pose a problem of some kind, whether discovery or injury. As such, if one takes certain actions and fails, one then performs a Fallback Action of a different type using the same unit. Success and failure on the roll will lead to different effects.

One of the most notable sorts of Fallback Actions is a Heist, so let's give an example to show what I mean.

You've sent Mirage to try and steal Granny Crockett's cookie recipe you remember liking, but refuse to pay for store-bought frozen cookies. The DC is 100. If she succeeds, the action just completes, nothing unusual happens. But let's say Mirage gets a 72, which means she fails!

The Fallback Action for this heist will be listed in the action in question. For this example, it's a DC 50 Martial roll. Mirage must attempt to make this DC. Her Martial is low, so this will be difficult.

On a Critical Success, Mirage gets away with the recipe and without her identity being discovered. Phew! Action saved.

On a normal success, Mirage must choose: does she get away clean but without the target, or does she take the delicious cookie goodness with her at the cost of your involvement becoming known? You get a vote.

On a failure, you fail to obtain the target and your identity becomes known. Bad times.

On a critical failure, Mirage has been captured by Granny Crockett, leaving your hero unit list until she can be retrieved. If she can be. Also neither of you would ever live it down.

Other examples of Fallback Actions include Flubber technology (Learning, Fallback Diplo) and Large Carnivorous Dinosaurs (Learning, Fallback Martial).

Collaboration Actions
You have the opportunity to collaborate with other factions to achieve greater results together.

Sometimes, you will take the 'collaborate' or 'research agreement' diplomacy national action with a faction. This allows you to then perform one action on the following turn as a collaboration action.

On the next turn, you will be given a list of collaboration options, partially picked from your own actions and partially picked from special actions that either only your collaborator or only you and your collaborator together have the resources and knowledge to do. You cannot simply do yourself actions that are presented here; they need skills or resources your collaborators possess to be done.

You can choose to go back on your agreement and not perform a collab, but doing so can result in serious monetary and opinion penalties. The same goes for 'shirking' your part of a collab, like assigning a clearly unsuitable unit or no unit at all.

Once you choose an action, you perform the action as normal for national actions. However in addition, you add a single unit's bonus from the collaborating king (typically the higher of the King or their specialty hero unit) to your roll to determine success, failure etc.

In addition, factions with good opinions of you can choose to present a collab to you from time to time. If you agree, they will either insist on a specific action or present a list of possible actions, again drawn from a mix of your actions, theirs, and actions you can only do together. When you choose one, you immediately perform the collab that turn as only one faction needs spend a diplo action to begin the collab. In total, one faction performs a diplomacy action and then both perform the collaboration national action next turn. In this case, you either assign a hero unit as usual or, via a single personal action, Doof to the roll and provide your bonus to their roll.

Unlike collabs you begin, there is no penalty to saying 'no' to a collab someone else brings to you unless you had previously committed to it.

In both form of collab, success splits the benefits of the action roughly 50-50, as does penalties on a possible critical failure. For example, if an action provides 4 funds, you each receive 2. In cases where rewards are hard to split or unequal, they will be handled on a case by case basis.

Collaborations are a good way to hit DCs that are otherwise slightly out of your reach, as well as improve your opinion standing with the relevant King. Collabing with a King will frequently reveal their relevant hero units and information about the state of their organization to you; though the reverse is also true!

Fanart and Omakes

We will be awarding bonuses for anyone who is willing to complete a good omake or piece of fanart! You can then spend that XP to increase your roll on any national action at a price of 100XP per point of bonus, to a maximum of +10 total. You can keep track of XP gains and allocation on the XP Trackinator. (Add a link here when its finished)

If you write an omake that is good, entertaining, and doesn't conflict with the quest, we may put it into the Canon Threadmarks! 'Canon' omakes would be stories that could actually take place in the quest's universe, and more importantly, can provide rumors that you could potentially act on. Got a favorite minor character that you really want to show up? Write an omake about them! With a little bit of tweaking to ensure it's canonical, your character may very well be available as a hero unit in the future! Of course, certain characters will be held in reserve, so writing an omake will not guarantee their fate- some characters are off doing their own thing, and some of them are dead.

Non-canon omakes would be just for fun. Have you got an amusing story idea, or wondered what would happen if the quest was taken in a different way? Write something up and you can earn some XP! This will be completely separate from the quest though, and have absolutely no bearing on any future events.

Fanart will also earn you a bonus, but it's got to be at least mostly relevant to the quest. Your picture of Thanos fighting Goku might be awesome, but it won't be awarded any XP. High-quality non-content will be given some XP, though not as much as fanart or omakes, and we reserve the right to stop this if it looks like things are getting spammy.

For 100 XP add 1 to any one national action roll. A maximum of 1000 XP can be used per roll.

Random Events

Following your personal and national actions every turn, we will be rolling 1d100 to see what sort of random events will take place in that particular month. There is no way to control or modify this roll, you'll simply have to deal with the results as they happen. Higher numbers mean good things for you while lower numbers mean bad ones. These events could be anything, ranging from unexpected boons like new research options to minor, annoying events taking place elsewhere in the world to the start of something terrible you will have to deal with eventually. Some will just be for flavor and might not practically affect you at all.

Quest Missions

At certain points in the quest you will be given the opportunity to participate in events that will be more involved than a single roll. These can range from opportunities to explore new locales, from lost temples to other planets, attend technology expos or huge parties, and have the opportunity to make powerful friends or attain huge technological leaps. Many of these events will be time-limited but I'll always tell you when that's the case. Yes, we know these are quests inside the quest. We considered 'Adventures' but that feels corny.

Quests are a series of interludes connected by choices and challenges. Quests always begin with you designating a Party Leader. (If Doofenshmirtz is on a Quest, he is always the party leader.) You then assign up to 4 (usually) other Hero Units to go on the quest. Going on a Quest costs a hero unit's personal action for the turn. If Doofenshmirtz goes on a Quest, it costs 3 of his Personal Actions.

Two things can happen on Quests: Choices and DC challenges.

For choices, questers are presented with a dilemma with multiple options, and can choose or write in how to respond. Choices often lead to DC challenges.

For DC challenges, you roll against a DC to accomplish some goal. You add the stat of the Party Leader plus the stat of the highest other person present. So, if it is an Intrigue challenge with Doof as party leader, as well as Janna and Russ, you add Doof's intrigue plus Russ' intrigue, but not Janna's because hers is lower than Russ'. You then roll 1d100 and try to beat the DC. The only exception is combat- combat consists of a series of martial rolls, and depending on who an enemy chooses to target and how well they roll, they might be able to test their martial against your heroes even if that hero is not particularly good at fighting.

• Martial challenges are challenges that require you to fight a foe or perform a physical feat.
• Diplomacy challenges require you to convince others of things or keep the party together when arguments arise.
• Stewardship is used when solving puzzles, performing feats of logic, or deciding how to allocate resources.
• Intrigue is used when trying to lie, stealth, trap or misdirect someone.
• Learning is used to know stuff about things.

There's more room for granularity in quests than in actions- what happens when beating someone in a fight by 5 points is very different from what happens when you beat them by 50.

When calculating critical chance on a random roll, chance is calculated using a neat excel formula Nystical made. Thank him.

Successful checks lead to neutralizing threats, progressing forwards, and possibly finding optional rewards.

Quest rewards are really varied. You can improve hero units, improve loyalty, get a bonus to income, find new hero units, find new research or personal action options, improve relations with other factions, discover more about the world, and more!

Not all quests are dungeon delves. A fraught shareholders meeting with an opposing King can be just as much a quest as a castle to explore.

Characters that are good 'all-rounders' make good leaders of quests, since their rolls apply to every quest DC, unless the party gets separated or something. Otherwise, you'll want to focus on heroes who are specialized in one or two areas, especially if you expect that challenge to come up.

Choosing certain hero units might unlock (or conversely, lock) certain actions. For example, having Goofy in your party could let you begin diplomacy with an otherwise intractable toon.

Criticals are still unchanged.

Hero Units

Hero Unit Cap: 25/30
Contractor Cap: 5/5