Stratagemini
Totally a Fire Ferret.
- Location
- Central Park
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
I mean, it was only a temporary correction. 2 months, max.
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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- USA
This post summarizes the last time we got the all crit turn. We crit failed 20% of all of our actions, and that's after taking out one of the crit fails from the calculation!
Lab_Accident
A 2D 1D4
- Location
- Your dreams
Also, they benefitted last time and don't nearly have room to complain about it. And we just fought off an invasion of alien cats, plus we helped stop Demona from destroying the human race a while back so really? We have a ton of credit to burn through before anyone has any room to complain.
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- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
As seen in copyright collection, we're also much more dangerous, on account of being petty and WILDY UNPREDICTABLE
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
Some of those failures for the result of high-risk actions we considered necessary at the time.
Lab_Accident
A 2D 1D4
- Location
- Your dreams
You guys' capacity to focus on the negative always amazes me. Crit failing 20% means we crit succeeded 80% of our actions. I mean, really. How is that not an amazing trade-off?
- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
not getting the crit on company retreat really sucked though, It would have been so good!
Lab_Accident
A 2D 1D4
- Location
- Your dreams
It would have been amazing, but we rolled so terribly it would have been a crit-fail even without the crit turn.
- Location
- USA
- Location
- Great Khanate of Scotland
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[x] The On-Ice-inator! Doofenshmirtz cryogenically freezes himself for two months as a proof of concept. Next turn, Mirage is in charge of DEI! King stats and National Actions will be changed to reflect this!
- Location
- California
We were literally one off from the retreat and superpowers
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'll make one last appeal SilentGrove. If you want Muppets as fast as possible, vote duplicator. I have no issue with people voting On-Ice because the want Mirage Quest, even if I disagree, I respect their preferences. But your reasons to vote for it are a little backwards, since the other option brings you closer to your goal.
The Feldrake quest getting us 7 or even 5 income right off the bat in the quest itself is staggeringly unlikely. We got 2 from his untouched main sanctum, and needed a second action to get the other 5. I don't expect this already-explored base to have 5 income total in the whole place, but even if we did we'd need a second action to touch the bulk of it, so no matter which inator we pick, we aren't getting Muppets next turn.
Now as for getting it the turn after - yes, Duplicator costs us 3 from meat rain, but we can crit sweep a few income actions and almost certainly come out with more than enough for Muppets. With Mirage - well, we've got all our eggs in the Feldrake basket. Her pathetic Martial makes Supervillainy risky and we can't invest in instability. If Feldrake doesn't pay out 5 or more, and it very well might not - it might have been looted already, a smaller base without much loot, or we might fail the follow-up action - we're hooped and need to wait a whole extra turn. By focusing on income on a crits turn we don't run that risk.
If you really want a Mirage Quest then by all means vote that way, but if you want Muppets as quick as possible, join us in the chaos train! And isn't that the Muppet-ey thing to do anyways? All the hijinx and unpredictability of a dysfunctional organization always kept barely afloat by zany schemes is what I love so much about the Muppets, they wouldn't want us to bring them into the fold by playing it safe and doing things like corporate suits.
KidFromPallet
Pokemon Fan
- Location
- Pallet Town
Decided to go back and look at the positives and negatives from our first time breaking probability. I'll only be including the things that it actually effected here, so I'm leaving out crit successes that were more than double the dc and the crit fail from the nat 1:
Good:
Bad:
So basically, we got three extra crit successes at the cost of two crit failures. I'd say that's pretty good.
Edit: Another thing about the Duplicatinator is that it also includes the Super Inator that'll boost whatever we roll next. If we take Tinker with Inators this next turn, there's a high likelihood of getting a boosted beneficial Inator that could give us a much needed advantage on the turn after.
Good:
Bad:
So basically, we got three extra crit successes at the cost of two crit failures. I'd say that's pretty good.
I wanted to say that we weren't one off on superpowers, as we had rolled a nat 1, but I guess you could count needing a 2 or higher as 1 off?We were literally one off from the retreat and superpowers
Edit: Another thing about the Duplicatinator is that it also includes the Super Inator that'll boost whatever we roll next. If we take Tinker with Inators this next turn, there's a high likelihood of getting a boosted beneficial Inator that could give us a much needed advantage on the turn after.
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- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
My big problem with this is that the benefits we got for the three boosted successes don't really compare to the downsides of the two crit fails. We got +15 defense which sure, eh, we got juniper with +10 loyalty I believe and we got "minor bonus and some tech tree" compared to "our OS is borker forever, majorly cutting into our income and a 7 turn -10 loyalty malus for each hero.
Inator Your Way to Success
- Location
- USA
Inator Your Way to Success
You are Joe, a staff accountant at one of the largest corporations in the world, run by the least likely individual in the world. On this chilly fall day, you find yourself in a garish tight vest, watching a hailstorm of meatballs raining outside the offices of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated. As you sip a nice morning cup of coffee - you begin to reflect on why your short amount of time at the company has you thinking this is a place you can make a long career out of.
It's quite simply really. The CEO actually remembers your name. That's something that can't be said for a lot of places. It shows that beneath it all, your boss cares about the little guys. But that doesn't mean you don't have a few things that boggle your mind. And the boss's robot super was watching the meatballs outside too, so you figured you would ask him some questions to assuage your confusion.
You walk up to the windows and gesture outside. "So uh.. what's up with this meatballs? Again?"
"Ah Yes! Father decided the best course of action was to reactivate his Rainfoodinator."
You scratch your chin. "And why don't the Normbots, I don't know, build a large net to catch the meat before it can hit the surface?"
"Great question! The explanation is quite simple: That's now how you inator your way to success!"
He continued "You cannot do anything to interfere with the inator's effects."
"But what about those meat golem things from that art project that someone made two months ago?" You question him.
"The meatlings! They of course are not in violation of the inator principal. They were created after the inator was finished."
"So if you can affect the results after the fact, why not simply have the normbots at least assist with the clean up operation instead of outsourcing everything? Then the inator's effects wouldn't be interfered with and you could save a bit of money."
"That would violate the second principal of inators. First: Do not interfere. Second: Do not mitigate. Paying the clean up costs is part of the effect of the inator, and thus cannot be mitigated in any way."
As you absorbed the information about your boss's methods for "success", you came to a stark realization.
"So you know something is going to happen, can't avoid or prevent it, can't mitigate the consequences after the effects are over, but you *can* find some way to reuse whatever is left over to make something new?"
"Now you're getting it! I'm going to discuss with father on promoting you to lead the inator branch of the company! He still hasn't replaced the last guy who quit!"
As the robot quickly walked into a nearby elevator, your stomach dropped in despair. You guess you won't be cutting out of your new vest with a pair of scissors.
You are Joe, a staff accountant at one of the largest corporations in the world, run by the least likely individual in the world. On this chilly fall day, you find yourself in a garish tight vest, watching a hailstorm of meatballs raining outside the offices of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated. As you sip a nice morning cup of coffee - you begin to reflect on why your short amount of time at the company has you thinking this is a place you can make a long career out of.
It's quite simply really. The CEO actually remembers your name. That's something that can't be said for a lot of places. It shows that beneath it all, your boss cares about the little guys. But that doesn't mean you don't have a few things that boggle your mind. And the boss's robot super was watching the meatballs outside too, so you figured you would ask him some questions to assuage your confusion.
You walk up to the windows and gesture outside. "So uh.. what's up with this meatballs? Again?"
"Ah Yes! Father decided the best course of action was to reactivate his Rainfoodinator."
You scratch your chin. "And why don't the Normbots, I don't know, build a large net to catch the meat before it can hit the surface?"
"Great question! The explanation is quite simple: That's now how you inator your way to success!"
He continued "You cannot do anything to interfere with the inator's effects."
"But what about those meat golem things from that art project that someone made two months ago?" You question him.
"The meatlings! They of course are not in violation of the inator principal. They were created after the inator was finished."
"So if you can affect the results after the fact, why not simply have the normbots at least assist with the clean up operation instead of outsourcing everything? Then the inator's effects wouldn't be interfered with and you could save a bit of money."
"That would violate the second principal of inators. First: Do not interfere. Second: Do not mitigate. Paying the clean up costs is part of the effect of the inator, and thus cannot be mitigated in any way."
As you absorbed the information about your boss's methods for "success", you came to a stark realization.
"So you know something is going to happen, can't avoid or prevent it, can't mitigate the consequences after the effects are over, but you *can* find some way to reuse whatever is left over to make something new?"
"Now you're getting it! I'm going to discuss with father on promoting you to lead the inator branch of the company! He still hasn't replaced the last guy who quit!"
As the robot quickly walked into a nearby elevator, your stomach dropped in despair. You guess you won't be cutting out of your new vest with a pair of scissors.
- Location
- Academy City
- Pronouns
- They
[X] The Duplicatinator! This inator replicates the effect of the last five inators rolled, all at once!
KidFromPallet
Pokemon Fan
- Location
- Pallet Town
...Y'know, I just realized something. We've talked about how the Duplicatinator could let us easily crit succeed creating a Coven, but there's another action we're taking next turn that would also be really great to crit: our research collaboration with the Imagination Institute.
Even disregarding the benefits of crit-succeeding whatever we actually do, if people are concerned about our relationship with the feds getting a crit success while working with them might help boost their opinion of us.
Even disregarding the benefits of crit-succeeding whatever we actually do, if people are concerned about our relationship with the feds getting a crit success while working with them might help boost their opinion of us.
[X] The Duplicatinator! This inator replicates the effect of the last five inators rolled, all at once!
- Location
- USA
A Mirage turn is our one unique opportunity to give us the entire perspective on DEI from someone that is not only sane, but has experience running megacorps, secrets, the cape scene, advanced tech, etc.
Doof would never let someone take the helm naturally, and wouldn't freeze himself if he normally developed freeze tech.
We do know this inator isn't coming up again.
Its a roulette. We take it or its gone.
- Location
- Washington
Well, doing some pros and cons for the Duplicatinator.
Pros:
Pros:
- All successes will be crits!
- Any action by the Turn Evil hero unit that is considered "evil" by them gets a +5.
- All failures are crit failures.
- All Diplomacy rolls get a -5 hit (except on quests).
- Turn Evil hero units get a -10 to anything that they consider "good".
- Income takes a hit.
- Our public image is damaged.
I mean... the same can be said for the Duplicatinator.