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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest

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couldn't he just toss the ball at some flunky who is given a weekly list of things to keep an eye on?

also sudden idea for the sword that i should have thought of sooner: use it as the core of a power draning beam cannon and shoot it at AUTO or the hat fetishist AI.
 
Light said:
...I'm pretty sure that the most recent plan was a Xanatos Gambit against freaking Xanatos.
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Huh...you know, I can see that. Xanatos is our ally, so him getting either of the magic books isn't necessarily a deal breaker for us. If he wins them and we get the Key, we'll still be able to compete for multiple items in the next round, while if we get even one of them we've got a potentially useful source of magic knowledge we can put to use while still being able to put up a good bid on one of the upcoming items.
 
Light said:
...I'm pretty sure that the most recent plan was a Xanatos Gambit against freaking Xanatos.
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I mean yes, but that's not particularly unique to that plan. Like, the defining gambit of a Xanatos gambit isn't that it guarantees the best results, it's that it lets you avoid all the bad ones. And this auction was comparatively cheap for us. All it cost was 5 income, 3 personal actions, 1 lovemuffin action, and 2 heroes taken off national actions. That's hardly nothing, but we could have spent all of that just to confirm that Xanatos was with us against Toffee and I would have considered it cheap at the price; everything else, like learning about Phobos, getting a contact to buy unicorn hair from, potential loyalty increases from Russ or Janna, intrigue stat ups, etc are just icing on the cake, FMPOV. Extremely valuable icing in some cases, yes, but even if we walk away with nothing else and have to cash out what we brought, that's still our win. The question is just how much.
 
Light said:
This seems to conflict a bit.

Did Xanatos outbuy someone else specifically because he heard it was a heirloom?
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A lot of the other intrigue checks we've seen appear to have multiple thresholds, probably for noticing different peoples' interests. My guess is we passed the first one, which was relatively easy, and spotted Grim and Hildy wanting it. There was probably a much harder one that would have indicated Xanatos wanted it too.

For comparison, on the cookbook:

Made in Heaven said:
Intrigue Check: Is anyone eyeing this item?
DC 100/140 needed: 87+14+38+10+5+7=161
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100 was probably for vague, general interest, and 140 for Xanatos specifically. Though we did roll 145 on our check for the ball, so maybe the threshold was higher for some reason?
 
QTesseract said:
this auction was comparatively cheap for us. All it cost was 5 income, 3 personal actions, 1 lovemuffin action, and 2 heroes taken off national actions.
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Made in Heaven said:
ACME acquisition: +2
DoofOS release: +9
Semuncia from Castle Doofhawk: +2
Disney acquisition: +2
Evil Job Benefits: -5
Greevil Power release: +2
Mendel-Gruman acquisition: +5
Chicken Itza Loot: +2
Chicken Itza excavation: +5
Setting money aside: -5
Hiring the Commodore: -7
Revamping Insuricare: -5
Lee Industries acquisition: +5

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Total Income: 10

Here's a summary of the total income you have for various things in the quest! Remember that this is an abstraction of the liquidated funds you have on hand- so if you go negative you won't be bankrupt, but you will have to gain some income back before spending it again.
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Accquisition of companies gives us money instead of costing us anything, so it's not as if we have all that many options for using the money anyway. We used 5 for revamping Insuricare, 5 for Evil Job Benefits and 7 for the Dickenses, and that's about it. We haven't used money for investments or for hiring, and I don't think it can be used to boost rolls.
 
To comfort anyone worrying about Plan Acquire Knowledge getting all the items... you shouldn't, as there are too many points of failure for that.

The first point of failure is that we actually might not get the Key, as someone else wants it.

The second point of failure is Xanatos. Presumably, his intrigue is high enough to tell that we are interested in both the Cookbook and the Scroll, and thus, have presumably made decent bids for both. He will likely choose to guarantee getting one, specifically, to my displeasure, he is most likely to prioritize getting the Scroll to my understanding.

The third point of failure is that there are numerous people vaguely interested in the Cookbook, thus, they might match or surpass our bid for it.

I would estimate that the probability of not losing a single item to another bid in this round to be about the same as the probability of losing every single item to other bids in this round, and neither of those possibilities should be considered failure conditions, in my opinion.
 
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ReaperofInterest said:
Huh...you know, I can see that. Xanatos is our ally, so him getting either of the magic books isn't necessarily a deal breaker for us. If he wins them and we get the Key, we'll still be able to compete for multiple items in the next round, while if we get even one of them we've got a potentially useful source of magic knowledge we can put to use while still being able to put up a good bid on one of the upcoming items.
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MiH has already confirmed "sharing" of spoils b/t Xanatos and Doof will neither be easy nor trivial. If we want something, we need to get it for ourselves.
 
If Doof and Xanatos get one of the books we should make an agreement to have one of our heroes write up transcripts for each other
 
If we have Lee make Kitsune a vehicle, should we wait to unlock bells and whistles or just let her pimp it out with pyrotechnics?

Edit: wrong verb
 
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