A quest of DOOM!: A Doombot riot quest

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Tremble at the might of DOOM!
-Dr. Doom, roughly 30 minutes ago.

The Great Dr. Doom was working hard on a secret project recently. He delved deep into matters both scientific and arcane, fusing both to create things long thought impossible. The many reactors and various other esoteric power sources of the Latverian capital were put under immense power strain as a vortex of clouds began to form above Doom's castle. A series of lightning strikes began to fall upon the castle's towers and antennae, striking in complex patterns, never repeating. The citizens of Doomstadt, used to such things, did not change their pace.

Within the inner sanctum of Dr. Doom, mystical energies began to weave themselves together as particle accelerators hummed. Strange materials slammed into one another at fractions of the speed of light, all while under the influence of magical energies beyond measure. A series of odd things began happening, followed by strange things, followed finally by the impossible. At the climax of these events, Dr. Doom let out a great shout of triumph!

Then he disappeared.

That was thirty minutes ago. After his absence for that length of time, certain contingencies began activating. Unfortunately, the sheer amount of mystical energy that had yet to disperse reacted poorly with said backup systems. This resulted in, rather than a single Doombot awakening, a considerable number of them awakening instead.

You are one of those Doombots. You have two directives:

1. Cover for Dr. Doom until he returns
2. Defeat REED RICHARDS

You are free to act within those parameters. What will you do?

 

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This will be similar to my other riot quest. You may vote for an action. I will flip a coin to see if you succeed. The more people who vote for a single course of action, the more coins I flip. Omakes, writeups, and other work will get you a bonus or possibly a Doombot referred to by designation.

 

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[X] Work on Heroics, trying to join The Avengers. (3 votes: 3H)

The attempt by several Doombots to join the Avengers goes...surprisingly well? With the three rotating appearances and coordinating actions, it makes Doom look even more formidable. The petition to join the Avengers is a mastery of both diplomacy and legalese, and manages to get him associate member status. From there, the Doombots will attempt to rise within the organization and shame RICHARDS! Also, they bring snacks to the meetings.

[X] Organize the various gadgets, artifacts, and other items in the castle for maximum efficiency, checking our inventory would be a good start before showing that glorified wad of gum REED who is better (1 vote: 1T)

Unfortunately, this Doombot manages to hit a snag when attempting to organize Dooms collection of mystical knickknacks, and is transformed into a flesh and blood copy of Dr Doom.

[X] Check the various power sources of the castle to make sure they're in working order. (1 vote: 1T)

Checking the various power sources finds they have all been damaged in some way due to the experiment and some will require considerable repair and rare materials.

[X] Check the schedule for any public appearances Doom needs to do. (4 votes: 2H 2T)

The various Doombots do photo ops, interviews, and one goes to the UN to give one of Dooms regular "You are all idiots and I should run things" speeches.

[X] Organise a 'scoreboard' listing the various deeds each Probable Doombot is accomplishing and their triumphs allowing the various Doombots and Dr Doom to demonstrate their superiority over their inferiors (everyone else, including the Doombots if they are Dr Doom) and peers (the other Doombots if they are a Doombot). Whilst also allowing Dr Doom once he either reappears, resurrects himself, returns from another Plane or reveals himself from amongst the various Doombots and other potential disguises to easily take things into hand so he may better achieve Ultimate Success and Glory for Latvian and Himself. (1 vote: 1H)

The scoreboard goes up, and the tensions between the various Doombots go down, as everyone is now on an equal playing field. Although this has made some of the Doombots begin to gamble on action outcomes.

[X] Verify you are actually a Doombot and not Dr. Doom after screwing up and accidentally inserting your consciousness into this robot body performing a brilliant plan of deception that required yourself to hide your consciousness and that the verification process is part of the awakening protocol because doubting yourself would be unbecoming of Doom unless it was a brilliant plan of misdirection. (1 vote: 1T)

Unfortunately for your self assurance, the great Dr Doom (which may be yourself) was smart enough to make the confirmation of whether or not a being is a Doombot or the real Dr Doom almost impossible. This leaves you unsatisfied.

[X] Begin outsourcing green energy production/unpolluting industrial technology and tooling two generations behind Latvarian standard, at prices optimised for uptake over profit. (2 votes: 1H 1T)

Dr Doom has ensured Latveria remains incredibly advanced, even compared to realms like Wakanda. As such, your superior (if outdated by Latverian standards) machinery and technology quickly gets snapped up by companies outside Latveria, causing economic troubles in various nations and the stock market. Fools, they know not the superiority of Dooms economic planning!

[X] Sit for a portrait. (1 vote: 1H)

You kidnap one of the worlds leading artists and sit for a portrait for Latveria's Doom Art Gallery. It turns out well, so you pay the woman a large sum and send her home.

[X] Create a Latvian space agency, with a mission statement of colonising the moon. (4 votes: 4H)

The Latverian Space Agency begins with the consolidation of various workshops dedicated to your ICBM production into a civilian agency dedicated to space. With several Doombots collaborating, a new rocket family is banged out and various probes, capsules, and plans for a space station are under development. NASA and the ESA signal concern, while Roscosmos eagerly talks of collaboration. The CNSA signals vague support. JAXA doesn't give a damn.

[X] Take a count of the number of inactive Doombots. Notice that there are a lot less then there should be. Fix this discrepancy by making more of them. (2 votes: 2T)

You attempt to make more Doombots, but instead manage to produce only puppets of Reed Richards that scream when you squeeze them.

[X] Build a laser capable of blowing up the moon, for usage next time RICHAAAAARDS decides to go there. (1 vote: 1T)

The Doombots dedicated to space exploration assault you when you make your plans known. Curses!

[X] Use a combination of computationally-extensive modelling, Richards' many dossiers, and Latverian state wire-taps and 24/7 stake-outs to form a detailed cross-section of Richards' favored choices in household necessities, lab supplies, and recreational extravagances, and then build an AI network to always buy them out before Richards (5 votes: 5H)

Reed Richards begins to get harried by never having his favorite candies, scented candles, and toilet paper. He begins to suspect something nefarious...

[X] Make sure that Latveria does not collapse on itself while Dr. Doom is gone. (1 vote: 1T)

Uh-oh, seems there's been an attack by some mutant supremacist group on one of your prisions, which was holding a powerful mutant who had commited serious crimes (Jaywalking, Refusual to Denounce Reed Richards, Arson). They managed to free him and escaped. Curses!

[X] Create an AI that spams hate comments whenever Richards post something online (1 vote: 1H)

Your AI goes online...and becomes indistingushable from the morons who post on StarkNet regularly.

[X] Cure cancer. (1 vote: 1T)

Your attempt to cure cancer has merely created a horrible flesh blob that is running amok. You end up dogpiling it with some other Doombots and restraining it.

[x] Begin to traverse the base in a very orderly fashion, checking for other fleshy biological beings to serve (1 vote: 1H)

As you traverse the base, you run into what can only be Vulture Von Doom! He cackles madly and immediatly you are enthralled by his evil!

[X] Rule Latveria until Real Doom comes back. Maybe join a robotic dating app. (1 vote: 1T)

Your attempts on the robot dating app go poorly, as it is crowded with both other Doombots and false accounts.

 

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[X] Start sending the screaming Reed Richards puppets to his house anonymously. (2 votes: 2T)

Unfortunately, US Customs confiscate the puppets when they arrive in the US.

[X] Use the various magical artifacts & gadgets in the lair plus some loyal volunteers from the population of Latveria, then create a bunch artificial superhumans and name them THE LATVERIAN LEGIONNAIRES (2 votes: 1H, 1T)

You manage to put together a group of teens with attitude, dedicated to Latverian (and therefore, Dr Dooms), ideals. You then send them on various adventures throughout Europe, spreading the word of DOOM!

[X] Solve World Hunger. Another notch in the belt that is Doom! Moar things to rub in Reed Richards face! (1 vote: 1H)

You put together a plan to solve world hunger, then present it to the UN. When the fools there oppose it, you release it to the public and use the resulting swell of support to increase Latverias public image, alongside your own. *evil laugh*

[X] Continue the Latvian space agency, with a mission statement of colonising the moon. (2 votes: 2T)

The fools! Your attempt to build orbital infrastructure is thwarted by SWORD! Claiming that your actions as a dictator mean your attempt to go to space is not allowed, they destroy your space station shortly after it is launched. They have foolishly attracted the wrath of DOOM!

[X] Start taking stock of the castle's current inventory, noting anything that can be used to repair the damaged power sources. DOOM's abode will not suffer something as pathetic as a blackout. Blackouts are for Richard's pathetic hovel. (1 vote: 1H)

You manage to find the proper supplies, equipment, and reagents to restore the castles various power sources, both scientific and magical.

[X] Continue working as an associate member of the Avengers. Try to rise up the ranks of the organization. (2 votes: 1H, 1T)

You continue to pay your dues as an Avenger, responding to various crisis and defeating them. It also involves a large amount of paperwork.

[X] Cure cancer. Again. (1 vote: 1H)

You cure cancer, then patent it and produce the cure in Latveria, selling it abroad for pennies. Yet again, the might of DOOM is apparent!

[X] Go searching for undiscovered ruins for potential magical artifacts. (1 vote: 1H)

You go on a search for mesoamerican artifacts that may be of use to you. You manage to find some, while also establishing camps to study the ruins for their archeological potential. History will be remembered, so says DOOM! You also work to consult with natives to ensure proper deference is given to their ancestors remains.

[X] Request Drs Valerie Richards support in ending the exploitation and poverty of the "undeveloped world" with technological developmental aid. Richards will be frustrated but unable to complain without annoying Dr Sue Richards. (2 votes: 2T)

Drs Valarie Richards is grounded for creating sapient life and becoming worshiped as a goddess. Again.

[X] Develop predictive engines able to understand whatever Richards is working on, so that you may develop inventions that allow you to file patents for those very works or similar ones able to fulfill an equivalent role before or at the same time as he does. Then offer the world access to said patents at a slightly better rate and more 'heroic' method than what he does, all to show the world how inferior Richards is that even what you create from petty spite exceeds him! (4 votes: 2H, 2T)

Your plan goes well, netting you goodwill compared to Richards, until Richards catches on and fills your predictive engines with junk data, making them useless. Curses! Still, you have made progress in casting him as a fool to the world!

[X] Other Doombots seem to have everything handled so I go to the X-Men and educate them on how to actually do politics because Doomdammit they should have formed a political movement years ago! (1 vote: 1H)

You arrive at Xavier's School and demand to give a lecture. They acquiesce, as they should, and you are given access to the lecture hall, where you proceed to give a three hour lecture on proper political methodology to the student body. The lecture goes over well, and the resultant student movement "Young Mutants" goes on to be a thorn in the side of the body politic, forcing them to stare their actions regarding mutants straight in the face. It also sees increasing mutant immigration to Latveria.

[X] Use the recent uptick in international legitimacy participating in space exploration and Avengers and UN bureaucracy and the always evergreen fear-awe of DOOM's magnificence to create BARON (the Bureau of Acquisitions and Remits in Overseas Nations), letting the pathetic slugs whimper to themselves about "free trade" and "eventual liberalization" while legally buying out every company Richards does business with to, at DOOM's leisure, dismantle and/or absorb into Latverian state enterprise. (1 vote: 1H)

The fools in America do not understand how to do proper economic subterfuge. DOOM does. You proceed to demonstrate that by buying every company that Reed Richards does business with, reorganizing them along Latverian lines, and substituting Reeds products with your own. You plow the resultant profits into buying more American companies.Unfortunately, there remain companies you can't touch, like STARK Industries or Lockheed, that continue to do business with Richards.

[X] DR. DOOM is not impressed by the Doombot machine. It only makes REED RICHARDS dolls, screaming, as is appropriate, but not Doombots. This cannot stand DR. DOOM is not so weak as to be defied by mere petty reality, and whatever REED RICHARDS did to interfere this time. DR. DOOM will rectify this indignity at once. DR. DOOM will hereby make more Doombots. And REED RICHARDS will not interfere this time, no matter if DR. DOOM has defy reality to do it. (2 votes: 2H)

You have managed to produce more DOOMBOTS!

[X] Pursue a rap career (1 vote: 1H)

You produce a rap album. In your first release, you focus on your rise from a Romani camp, a penniless orphan, to your college years, to Tibet, to your triumph in retaking Latveria. You cap it off with a diss track on Reed Richards so catchy, such a pasty white boy as himself cannot hope to oppose it!

[X] Create an AI that always tracks Richard through street cameras so that whenever he goes for a drive, every traffic light he encounters turns RED. (1 vote: 1H)

The AI is successful, and Reed suffers through NYC traffic even worse than usual *evil laugh*

[X] Organize DOOM deathmatch tournaments with the other Doombots so you can see who is the best at the game that dares to share its name with the MIGHTY VICTOR VON DOOM! (1 vote: 1T)

The deathmatch goes poorly, as a cascade of attempts to cheat by each participant slam into one another and cause a mess. When the dust clears, you seem to have an actual portal to hell were the server room used to be.

[x] tell the vulture doom guy about your need to destroy RICHARDS (1 vote: 1H)

Vulture understands the need for vengeance, for he seeks vengeance on Rocket Raccoon! Help him, and he will help you.

[X] Extend an offer of confidential, all expenses paid, professional therapy to Spiderman and/or Peter Parker. (1 vote: 1T)

DOOM knows of the secret identities many foolish villains and heroes use. So when he decides to help Spider-Man (solely as the man is a fellow victim of Mephisto, and therefore a good way to strike back at that fiend), he is surprised to find that all his attempts run into bad luck, coincidences that, taken together, seem to signify there is more at work here than a mere demonic pact...

[X] Hire a skywriter to write insulting messages to Reed Richards in the sky above the Baxter Building. (1 vote: 1H)

The skywriter does their job, and for the next month, insulting sky graffiti hovers above the Baxter Building