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So guys its 1974, the Ethopain Civil War and Coup is coming up...who wants to help an emperor out and make bank.
Digging for Nations in the Desert (No SV, You are a Micronation in the End of the World)
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Magoose
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You are not allowed to know, but most of the time, its double the cost you give, barring special actions.
No. Failures lose double the amount of control spent.
So 1=2. 3=6 Etc.
Most of the time however, but there are exceptions.
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Good to know! Please update the OP to reflect this, it currently says:
So to be clear the "most of the time" is that most of the time we will not game over to mid-turn weirdness?
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Might even help the rebels if they decide to pay us more.
Magoose
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I mean, that just depends on your business sense.
do you value peace, ideal, and possibly crazy, possibly genocidal intent?
Or do you value Cold Hard, Cash!
I mean, either way, you may be facilitating genocide.
Magoose
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God dammit, I know for a fact I put the control there when I was writing.
(sees that the completed draft was on another document)
I pasted the wrong fucking document. god dammit!
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Why Should we trust the Derg?
All I want is Hellie Selassie to maintain his nation.
What have the Derg ever done for Ethiopia except cause a Famine and make it fall to Soviet Impiralism!
Checkmate Communist!
Welp we were gonna do something Lawful Evil anyway might as well choose the LEAST evil side.
FOR THE EMPEROR AND ETHEOPIA!
Magoose
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I mean be honest with yourselves.
Your mercenaries, that will fight for cash.
You think that you will always back, Moral and good causes.
No. Fuck no.
If you were, this quest wouldn't be realistic at all.
You will be helping some evil people.
Your mercenaries, that will fight for cash.
You think that you will always back, Moral and good causes.
No. Fuck no.
If you were, this quest wouldn't be realistic at all.
You will be helping some evil people.
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Anything other than an evacuation mission for the royal family to a neutral country after they lose the coup would end up with facilitating genocide.
Magoose
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Like I said: You are not going to be the good guys.
You are just the mercenaries hired to do things that will get you paid.
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Come on guys...FOR THE EMPEROR! He's against Imperialism and can give us all that Soviet shit when we win. Lets at least consider it.
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Depends on how much we get paid and the opportunity cost of good publicity.
If it pays enough to get involved okay. If they're not paying enough we might just sit it out and offer to do a rescue for the royal family when the empire falls.
And honestly, sometimes there may be no good side to back in the first place, just varying shades of grey...
It's real life, many times, whom the hero or villain is depends on perspective.
Magoose
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Knowing what we might do, we might be the biggest monster, or the greatest Hero to ever exist.
Well, we have already started our path to embracing our namesakes reputation.
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I wonder how we'll respond?Well, we have already started our path to embracing our namesakes reputation.
Magoose
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No Big boss is not here, and no, I will not add him here.Well, we have already started our path to embracing our namesakes reputation.
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That feels good.
[X]Plan: Walls, Wars and Writing
-[X]The Red Tsarina's Death: She is a problem that needs to be dealt with. Permanently. (Cost 10 Control)
-[X]The Bush Wars of Rhodesia (Revolutionaries): Well you might not like those boys, the snakes that you have heard of willing to send places to hell for their men, but you were not interested. There would be the African Republic. Though the less time with Mugabe, the better. (Cost 4 Control)
-[X]Organizing the Companies: You have so many mercenaries that you need to organize (Cost 2 Control)
-[X]Tired Faces, and Worn Out Places: So… Which idiot on the planet put a hit out on you, and what idiot would travel across the world to collect. They'd must have some balls to try and collect? (Cost 4 Control)
-[X]The Only Thing They Fear is You!: You are going to announce to the world that yes, you are alive, and you are well. Take that China! (Cost 3 Control)
-[X]Hire Some Workers: You are not doing all the grunt work all by yourself. (Cost 2 Control)
-[X]Starting up the Fire of Industry: Well there is no time like the present to decide to turn a single patch of desert into something amazing (Cost 2 Control)
-[X]Building a Home for a Family: You did Promise that one woman you love a villa. Best get on that. (Cost 3 Control)
-[X]My Kingdom for a Horse: You need a horse because none of the jeeps work. Fuck (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]Build Barracks: Your people need a place to stay. (Cost 5 Control)
-[X]Develop Sustenance Agriculture: Well the Desert isn't the best place to farm, but it is a start? (Cost 5 Control)
-[X]River Connections and if Such irrigation is possible?: Wait there is something that can make the Nile reach you? Inconceivable?! (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure, and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]Tell Dad to Fuck Off: Time for the semi-annual letter to your father, who will need to burn in all hell for this. (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Take another swing at solving the water retention problem. Desert's not getting any less dry any time soon.
-[X]Say Hello To the Glorious Leader: Wei is a fine boy, last you met him. He seems now to be a fine man. Perhaps there will be no hard feelings about the whole… going mercenary thing. (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]The KGB Says Hello: Oh, the KGB found you, and aren't trying to recruit you? Oh god, this must be the end of the world. (Cost 1 Control)
-[X]It seems that the Americans are Back… Again: American CIA operatives in Egypt, coming to you? This will be interesting at least. (Cost 1 Control)
[X] Li Mei - (RP)
-[X] Create Soldier of Fortune, a monthly newsletter posting reviews of various mercenary outfits, private military corporations, security firms, and generally guns for hire. It rates them based on their equipment, training, reliability, international and general reputation, suitability for various jobs that they have a history of being contracted to do, and moral integrity as according to Li Mei, her wife, and various friends she is able to get to comment on such things. Also a phone line by which various certified employers can submit their own reviews.
-[X] More attempts to drum up a positive reputation for the country while doing mercenary work (but this time in Rhodesia!)
-[X] Get to know Vasily. He's our right hand man, and as much as I'm glad we aren't dueling to the death I would eventually like to be several notches above that point.
There is a lot of Military stuff in here, largely because our current greatest strength is a mercenary army and it's our highest roll bonus. I resent spending 10 Control hunting the Tsarina, but letting her run free seems even more dangerous.
Economic covers housing and food, and a bunch of small things which seems like a good way to get the most out of our resources (both in terms of getting stuff set up sooner and in terms of normalizing our crit potential by just rolling way more dice). The river connection option is also a nice way to try to get some irrigation for our crops so we can push off trying to tap our underground reserves until next turn.
Science is peak bonus, albeit with a bit heftier an up-front cost and probably less immediate payoff, which is why I'm only doing one right now. Hopefully as we start getting infrastructure handled we will be free to put more in this direction.
A bunch of Politics rolls largely because a lot of this stuff seems like it will expire on us if we don't look into it eventually and we can afford the 4 to do so.
No Social, as usual. I don't think it's worth it unless we can fix our penalty or we get real desperate.
Total cost: 50
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[X]Plan: Walls, Wars and Writing
LETS GO!!
LETS GO!!
I know. Was more referring to sticking a middle finger to those in power. Considering we took a reputation hit, and set ourselves to possibly be a beacon of hope to the disenfranchised. We don't know where we will go from their, but he have takin our first steps somewhere.
[X]Plan: Walls, Wars and Writing
