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[X] Barricade yourself, and staff in the lab and work on something that might help.

Not necessarily expecting a cure. But a means to detect it and protect yourself from it before it hits you would be nice.
Protecting our staff is common sense, they're an INVESTMENT! Replacing skilled help in Gotham without some crazy sneaking in is hard!
 
This quest looks awesome, that being said...

[X] Barricade yourself, and staff in the lab and work on something that might help.

There's currently two parts of this 'disaster' that we could potentially tackle with using our (Currently unmade) inventions, the raging fire and joker toxin.

Let's start by looking at what we could do about the fire:



This is a fire tetrahedron, it's going to be our helpful friend here while we talk about how to kill a fire.

Fires cannot be made without those four triangles, oxygen, heat, fuel and the chain reaction that brings them together. If we can remove any of these four resources from this fire, it will die.

Directly stopping the chain reaction of atoms doing atom things that keeps the fire going is beyond modern science, but we have super science so we might be able to work with this. Perhaps we could make a device that produces a field that specifically prevents interactions between the elements (such as oxygen) that keep the fire going, but without interfering with them otherwise so that we don't say accidently halt the oxidisation process in humans. If we do something like this correctly we could portably stop the fire with minimal loss of human life, especially that which could be caused by our inventions. On the other hand... super science, it's worked in our favour so far but it backfiring here could be... really bad. Still a promising idea overall in my opinion. Assuming we don't do this however then we have to look at removing either oxygen, heat or fuel from the fire.

Next triangle we have removing oxygen which would be... hard to say the least, even if we did pull It off it gives us the obvious problem that people need oxygen to survive. Those already unconscious due to heat or smoke from the fire would be at the most risk but no one else would fare much better. Removing oxygen from fires as large as this is basically impossible IRL and would be both impractical and dangerous for us to attempt with super science. I'd recommended avoiding this one.

Removing fuel... there's simply too much fuel with a fire this size in a city like this for us to make this idea work. Next!

Removing heat... this has potential. We already have made tech in the past that does direct heat to cold conversion, not to mention that if we're careful and don't drop the temperature for too long and avoid dropping it too long we could put out large chunks of the fire without causing lethal harm. A cold grenade or some kind of heat-sucking void could work wonders here.

Having comic tech on our side makes dealing with this problem really fun to think about for me.

So now I've talked about dealing with the fire part of the disaster, lets look at Joker toxin.

Honestly... there's not a lot we can reasonably do without a sample of the toxin, though if the stuff starts blowing through the business district it might be worthwhile to grab some so we can synthesise a counter agent of some kind, but unless that does happen its much too risky to try and go out to get some.

Probably the best we can do without that is some gas detection/filtration devices and toxin proof suits/material (which would probably make a lot of money in Gotham if it ever goes through a big Joker toxin scare phase).

Now that I've talked about both of these problems and how we could deal with them, I want to mention one more possibility for what we might want to focus on... search and rescue.

Some kind of device/invention that would help people evacuate safely from the danger zones would be a godsend not only for this disaster but for all future catastrophise. While it wouldn't save property it would save lives, which is beneficial to us even from a pragmatic standpoint since it helps publicity. Outside of teleportation, rescue robots or life-sign scanners I can't think of much but it sounds like a decent idea.

So, what's your thought and opinions on all this?
 
Alright, the vote closes in two hours. It would close sooner, but I have meetings to go to.

Just to let you all know that this issue is going to be longer than the others. It's a special for a couple reasons.
 
Burn-The-Candle said:
Probably the best we can do without that is some gas detection/filtration devices and toxin proof suits/material (which would probably make a lot of money in Gotham if it ever goes through a big Joker toxin scare phase).
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Sounds like a great bargain for us. We protect people(mostly rich people) and we make a lot of money.

It also works on Scarecrow
 
Here's another notch on the badness scale. Alan Scott lives in Gotham
 
Well I'm home. Vote closed. I blame paperwork and the IRS.
Adhoc vote count started by Zilla on Aug 22, 2018 at 5:10 PM, finished with 491 posts and 24 votes.
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3-2 What killed the dinosaurs? And other assorted jokes.
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    [O] Barricade yourself, and staff in the lab and work on something that might help.

    Date: April 25th 1999
    Cash: $1,345,176.62


    Rubbing your forehead only helps so much with the headache that's assaulting your mind. A mad man is gassing the streets of Gotham, and somehow set all of the slums on fire without anyone noticing until it was all on fire. How is that even possible?! Was everyone looking away from the Docks for what must have been at least thirty minutes? Did he create a chemical that spreads everywhere and burns everything ludicrously fast? How?

    Well, it didn't matter now. It did, at least to you, but you think your employees come first before going out into the night looking for opportunity. So you lean forward in your chair and gently push the intercom button on your desk. "This is Adrian, we're going to seal the main lab. If you wish to take shelter in it please be here in fifteen minutes, and if you're going to brave the outside world right now please be careful."

    You think that was a good enough corporaty announcement, so now you wait.

    *****​

    POV: The Penguin

    It's time, and you can't help but smile to yourself. After all these years it finally time to kill the Old Man and take over. Sionis took care of himself by being an idiot and trying to kill Harvey Dent with a chemical attack. Now there was a two-face ex-attorney running around Gotham that could seemingly teleport. Seemingly, because according to your sweet little girl he was just moving too fast to see. Somehow that's worse, at least to you.

    Penguin Small Gun Attack Roll!
    1st Roll 1D100= 52+80(GUNS!)= 132

    Falcone's minions Dodge Roll! DC 90, 132
    1st Roll 5D100= 77, 37, 96, 3, 27
    One dodges, but is clipped by the bullet! All others shot dead!

    Lone Minion Gun Roll!
    1st Roll 1D100= 1!
    Gun jams!

    Penguin Attack Roll!
    1st Roll 1D100= 40+80= 120!

    Lone Minion Dodge Roll! DC 90, 120
    1st Roll 1D100= 17
    He's dead

    Like normal you walked into Don Falcone's meeting room, the meeting was of course about the maniac attacking all of Gotham. You saw the writing on the wall, superheroes and villains running around. Times were changing, you could either take control of your destiny or be left behind, and what type of father gets left behind? Not a good one that's for sure. So as you go to sit down you do what you've planned to do since swearing yourself to Falcone, you take charge. Smoothly drawing your pistol as you sit comfily in the chair, you take aim and shoot everyone else at the table before they can react. Well almost everyone, Jimmy No-Nose actually manages to duck under the table despite your enhanced reflexes, and Falcone well… You're saving Falcone for last.

    "What the hell Penguin?! That maniac cause you to lose it too?!" Jimmy is yelling at you while Falcone just watches this entire thing go down with his fingers steepled. Jimmy shoots up from behind the table, pointing his gun at you and quickly pulls the trigger. There's no click, Jimmy confirms this as he pulls the trigger several more times. You jump up onto the table before he can even think to unjam his gun or get another weapon, and launch yourself at him. Balling your hand into a fist you punch Jimmy in the chest, and feel it become slightly concave. Jimmy, or his body if that blow killed him goes flying back into the wall and with a loud crash there was now a Jimmy sized hole in the wall.

    Falcone Reaction Roll! DC 65
    1st Roll 1D100= 59
    Falcone is delirious from Smilex, and has been just before everyone arrived.

    "Good, good my young apprentice. They were no match for you." Falcone is wearing the stupidest grin you've ever seen on his face. "Falcone, are you high? I'd have prefered to kill you when you actually knew what was going on."

    The don just started laughing, and talking gibberish. "Ahahahahaha! Well guess who saw the new starwars movie before you? Me! It's got Podracing!" You really weren't sure what he was talking about but you wanted to shut him up, and take his place already.

    "Old Man, I'm going to rip your head off."

    Falcone just frowned at you as he stared into your eyes. "In death, I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

    *****​

    POV: Adrian

    Good, everyone's here now. You nodded to yourself and flipped the switch for the lab to go into lock down. Time to be a relatable/inspirational boss, and make a speech.

    Adrian Charisma Roll! DC 60, 85
    1St Roll 1D100= 67+30(Charisma!)= 97!
    Pass both!

    "Listen up everyone! We're here for two reasons to be safe, and think up a way to solve this problem. There are two problems out there right now, laughing gas that may kill you or put you in a coma and the fires. So we needs ideas." As you spoke you climbed onto a table so you could see everyone, and maintain eye contact with them.

    The group of scientists started mumbling to themselves, before you think Bob called out to you. "What about something to deal with oxygen. It'll put the fires out, and might disrupt the gas. It could work."

    Several of his colleagues nodded at that, until your assistant put his foot down on the topic. "That's a terrible idea."

    You chose this moment to interject. "It's also super illegal unless we get an 'oxygen' license from the government. Good idea Bob, but because of the Japanese, Godzilla, and the Oxygen Destroyer it's not going to happen. After all no one wants half a city's population to disitigrate again, even if it did melt the monster known as Godzilla all the down to it's bones." That was really the only reason you haven't tried something with gases before, the Attack on Tokyo in 1954 is not easily forgotten even 45 years later.

    "So any other ideas?" You look to Victor Fries just as he's about to speak, he's your assistant for a reason. "Cold Energy. We just need to make a device that harnesses it, then we can put out the fires. A protective suit would be best for the gas."

    Smiling at your assistant you turn to the rest of the scientists. "Good idea Victor, alright everyone. Let's get to work."

    Adrian + Victor Science(Int+Tech) Roll! DC 270, 300, 340, 400, 450, 500, 575
    1st Roll 2D100= 71, 94 +70(Adrian Tech)+40(Adrian Int)+60(Victor Tech)+50(Victor Int)+20(Other Staff)= 311, 334
    2nd Roll 1D100= 9+234= 243
    3rd Roll 1D100= 30+143= 173
    4th Roll 1D100= 80+73= 153
    5th Roll 1D100= 45+53= 98!
    Total: 498!

    The suit glimmered in the light of the lab, as did the long shining silver freeze gun. A faint hum filled the air as it activated and a pale blue light filled the helmet, painting Victor's face in blue.

    Before you or anyone else could say anything Victor flipped the lockdown switch off, and the doors unsealed themselves. "I'll be back. I'm going to end this, and save my wife."

    There was more emotion in that single sentence than you've ever heard from the man. "Bring back the suit, and stay safe."

    *****​

    POV: Joker

    The night was bright and filled with laughter! Just like old summer days back in… Ahahahahaha! It doesn't matter! Now what matters is him! One of the only people who can understand you! The pointy weared man who flaps in the night! "Darkwing Duck! Let's get dangerous!"

    You level your gun at him as he dives towards you silently, he really isn't a talker is he? Well you'll have to change that!

    Joker Shooting Roll!
    1st Roll 1D100= 25+30(Gun!)= 55!

    Batman counter attack Roll! DC 55
    1st Roll 1D100= 35+90(Counter Attack!/Dodge!)= 125!
    Pass!

    The Darkwing fan threw his cape out to obscure himself, as I fired and missed! "Ahahahahahahaha!"

    His fist came down on my head as I laughed and laughed. I was just too funny, though if he was Darkwing what did that make me? "Hey, Darkwing old pal. Old Buddy. Amigos. Am I Negawing?"

    He just looked down on me frowning. When did he get so tall? Or… "And when did I get on the floor."

    Something else was missing, though I couldn't put my finger on it… "I'm Batman. Why did you do this Joker?"

    "Why? Joker?" Oh! That's what you were missing! In the excitement of it all you forgot one of the most important things! "Ahahahahahaha! Why to put a smile on everyone's face!"

    Joker Tech Attack Roll!
    1st Roll 1D100= 54+45(Attack)+10(Tech)= 109!

    Batman Defense Roll! DC 109!
    1st Roll 1D100= 49+125(Defense)-45(Damage has gotten worse throughout the night)= 129
    Pass!

    Batman Attack Roll!
    1st Roll 1D100= 44+155(Batsuit attack)-45(Damage has gotten worse throughout the night)=154

    Joker Defense Roll! DC 154!
    1st Roll 1D100= 50+40(DEFENSE)=90
    Fail! Knocked out!

    You shoot your arm out and grab Batman by the ankle. "Tag!"

    Your joy buzzer, buzzes and sparks but doesn't really do anything. "Drat. Well, I guess I'll just have to beat you in a staring contest, huh Batsy?"

    He just punched you in the face, you aren't sure what happened after that because everything went black, but you dreamed of opening a bar.

    *****​

    POV: ???

    The chaos in Gotham is perfect. Yes, it is time! The world will know your might!

    JUSTICE LEAGUE FORMING EVENT ROLL!

    [] Random Kaiju

    [] Alien Invasion Table

    [] Extra Dimensional Invasion Table


    This fought me for a while, mainly because I feel terrible. But I knew if I didn't finish it I'd just keep pushing it off, so I hope you all enjoy it. Gonna lay down now.
     
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    • lockingbane said:
    can we see the tables?
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    No, but I will tell you Cell is on one, and Frieza on the other.

    Generally aliens are easier unless you roll bellow 50.

    The extra dimensions table is generally harder unless you get a 100, then you get Jar Jar Binks.

    Kaiju is totally random. If it's a space monster, aliens will also show up. If it's Megalon prepare for Seatopia, the rival of Atlantis.
     
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