SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
I guess that honor remains reserved for her employer.
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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
- Start date
- Crossover
Stratagemini
Totally a Fire Ferret.
- Location
- Central Park
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
I love how Xanatos' rival actions are all Xanatos speed chess and ours are "Some maniac built a baking soda volcano in your back yard while you were away and is now fighting an angry ant-themed Wednesday Addams."
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Ha! I just love the way Xanatos said that.
Also, damn it Magica! Running a business is one thing, but its another thing entirely to make a deal, get paid, and then just make another deal with someone else! I hope you at least refunded Xanatos' money.
Damm this hurts so much.
Lab_Accident
A 2D 1D4
- Location
- Your dreams
We don't know if Xanatos actually hired Rotwood, but if he did, we're better than freaking Rotwood. Rotwood obssesses with magical creatures, not magic in general, and is ultimately a bit player. We're a big name.
Also, letting Xanatos do the whole thing essentially means letting Xanatos have first pick of recruiting anyone recently joining the magic community. Useful for Xanatos, not useful for us.
Deranged Lunatic From Danville applied to other Kings, not the common people. Our public persona to the average citizen is still very much "the weirdo from Danville", which is how the U.S. is able to pass us being Supreme Ruler of Doofania off as a marketing gimmick.
Doof is the CEO that "mutters" about the vending machine uprising in social media, and no one sit ups and takes notice, even though they really should, because they're going to attack any day now.
As for the Kings being aware, after Demona, every King with even passable Intrigue will already be coming into awareness of Magic, if they aren't already.
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AProcrastinator
You can Certainly Try
- Location
- Getting Somewhere
- Pronouns
- She/Hers
Most people, when desperate or hopeless, summon demons in last-ditch efforts to obtain unknown knowledge.
When demons are desperate for knowledge, they call David Xanatos.
- Location
- Australia
See
If we start going on about how magic is real it is going to cause issues with the masquerade, Xanatos and everybody else invested in keeping the masquerade up.
- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Cazador: Intrigue ≤ 17
I want to see an opposed intrigue between Janna and Marco. The boy has at least 5 maluses when up against our witch.
Lab_Accident
A 2D 1D4
- Location
- Your dreams
That was rather the point. Go on about magic to help protect the Masquerade. Maybe it's not a strategy that will actually work in practice, but Doof is already the guy who claims lots of nonsense stuff, so giving the conspiracy theorists something safe to talk about is better than just letting them wander into Oregon.
- Location
- Out in the banjoes
Aww, he knows us so well already!
Tom really is helping lower David's cost estimates.
Lizzy
David Xanatos: The man who can be obvious for Intrigue purposes!
Well, given how many genre-savvy people we have in one place this should go rather well! You know, considering the call Janna sends later.
Unrelated thought, we should try to get Jumba and Lizzy to make literal bullet ants. As in ants able to be fired from a gun. Because supervillainy.
I am not talking about the average civilian. I am talking about the more connected persons. People like Professor Granville. Stuff like vending machine uprisings, quite frankly, doesn't matter. Doof has always talked about the vending machines, this is something that will have people notice due to the timing of the events. Doof going on about magic after the events of Twelfth Night is going to drag more attention to it than just about anything else we could do other than publically breaking the Masquerade.
The US has passed off Doof being supreme leader of Doofania as a marketing gimmick because that is all it is in reality. Doof does not control the courts, he doesn't control the laws. Compared to all of the other Kings, with the exception of Toffee, Doof has far less control over his 'territory'.
Edit: Oh, and if we combined this with stuff like the Dino Park, which is supposed to make us look like a scientific miracle house, well. Suddenly magic doesn't seem all that absurd.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
If. Anyone.
Why did you think Lizzy was so alert right then?
She was trying to figure out whether or not to have the fully fueled giant cyborg ants bust through the wall to counterattack the anticipated attackers.
SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
I'm not sure that's true. He actually made it legally required for everyone to follow him on social media. And he got some laws passed encouraging architectural diversity. And most law enforcement is done by robots solely loyal to him and not to the US. Basically, Doof has a lot of power, he just doesn't exercise it.
EDIT: I mean, he turned the skies purple and the water green. That's an overt display of power that most other kings would be hard pressed to match (Bill, of course, went even further).
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Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'd say it's at least a little surprising that she's actually working for someone long term rather than just wearing a dead employee's uniform on a whim.
The 'k' in Drakon should be a 'c'. That's how the wiki spells it. Also, it has been spelled Dracon earlier in the Quest.
That is called money. The legal requirement is more that Doof gives out free food to anyone that follows him on social media. I will admit that I did down play his influence a bit, but for all intents and purposes, Doof really is just an eccentric CEO with a strange amount of political influence. There is only one person that believes that Doofania is an actual thing rather than an annoying fantasy. And that person is Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
Edit: Even then, people are still going to notice the sudden declaration of magic. It would be very abrupt and it wouldn't be difficult to a slightly above normal person to put two and two together. Also, most Kings could do the things that Doof has done. They just wouldn't because it is a waste of money.
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AProcrastinator
You can Certainly Try
- Location
- Getting Somewhere
- Pronouns
- She/Hers
David Xanatos, thinking: Ah, Marco Diaz, 'Cazador'. And friends, I see. Intriguing.
Xanatos: ... any fool would suspect foul play, in this situation. But then, a fool would let slip that they are untrusting. At the risk of sounding immodest in my own estimations, I am no fool.
Xanatos: What I am is the man who is going to hire four-and-a-half bodyguards for the price of one. Cha-ching~
And this is why Xanatos is such a great character, the writers at least in the first season really nailed that he was based of Odysseus and thus someone who while not evil, *was* self-interested and clever enough to be highly effective at it.
- Location
- The Space Between
You know how David Xanatos spins most any odd happenstance into his favor somehow?
And somehow favorable odd happenstances spin us around most any time we take a turn?
"We really do complete eachother Xany boy. You with your competence. And me with my . . . things that happen around me . . . that are good . . . ness? . . .
what I'm saying is this should be a real casablanca type moment here, see. A beautiful friendship or some such" - doof and xany at the airport, after Doof's RetroPulpInator goes off causing all successes to crit dramatically and all failures to crit dramatically
And somehow favorable odd happenstances spin us around most any time we take a turn?
"We really do complete eachother Xany boy. You with your competence. And me with my . . . things that happen around me . . . that are good . . . ness? . . .
what I'm saying is this should be a real casablanca type moment here, see. A beautiful friendship or some such" - doof and xany at the airport, after Doof's RetroPulpInator goes off causing all successes to crit dramatically and all failures to crit dramatically
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"Luck my friend, is merely preparation meeting opportunity. You create the opportunities, and I am always prepared."
Lab_Accident
A 2D 1D4
- Location
- Your dreams
Nope, it's an actual law that he made, otherwise the Normbots will come after you. Also, he replaced the entire police force with his robots and dinosaur mounties. The city planner's office and the mayor's office both report to us. We manage the prisons in Danville and can free people whenever we want, meaning we also control the courts if we even bother with those. We can do almost whatever we want in Doofania, and until a short while ago the U.S. government had no power to stop us, which is why it spun that particular lie.
Because the U.S. government also knows that "Doofania" is a thing (it's not really a sovereign state, but we do de facto rule it), which is why they set a spy watcher on us.
People don't want to notice, that's the thing. In the very text you quoted you have Candace pointing out that we're an evil dictator that unlawfully took power and Linda papering over it because he keeps people fed.
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
The Bullet-Ant-Inator
Lizzy was just telling you about this fascinating species of ants called bullet ants from Nicaragua, but something about them just bugged you, these ants aren't bullets at all! Now, with the Bullet-Ant-Inator you can transform any ant into a ranged weapon,in the entire TRI-STATE AREA! Lizzy seems to be impressed to so that's a nice bonus. Lizzy gains a +5 to martial and a slight loyalty boost from the new ant based weaponry.
The Ant-Bullet-Inator
You probably shouldn't have gotten the name wrong, that must have been the cause, now instead of having ants as bullets you have ants that work as fast as bullet trains! (And not in a fun way!) Lizzy needs to get on this before their tunnels cause part of the city to collapse! Lizzy loses all actions next turn due to dealing with the ant problem.
Actually, I seem to recall that it's not "the weirdo from Danville" anymore so much as "the CEO of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated is very very dedicated to maintaining his ... unique branding strategy"
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- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
So people think we're real life iron-man?
To quote the QM, replacing the police force is just something that CEOs do. Doof isn't about to throw someone in prison over social media. That does not imply that we control the courts, as we don't actually know the specifics of how that happened.
Doof does not actually mess with the politics, which is why the Bowl of Mints trait existed in the first place.
Now, before you mention that the Bowl of Mints trait is gone, it isn't really. We just have Rodger helping us. We didn't even fucking know that Rodger was still Mayor of Danville! How the hell are we supposed to control the courts? I mean, Doof doesn't even really run the company. He just has beancounters doing all that off screen. Stuff like updating the city council with CJ was Doof doing an abnormal amount of intervention. Even then, there really isn't much reason that Doof interfered more after that, he's probably just left it to Rodger, the Board of Selectmen, and CJ.Discord said:
Made in Heaven has said over and over and over and over again that the only person who thinks that Doofania is a thing is Doof. Norm doesn't count because he is not a real person. People, and the government, aren't idiots. The people wouldn't believe it if Doof made it blatantly obvious that 'Doofania' was a thing. While the government would have picked a different strategy to hide their weakness if this path was a blatant lie. Think of why Flubber was chosen as the scapegoat for Hawaii.
Candace is paranoid beyond comprehension. I do not think that mentioning her really gives credence to your argument. I mean, hell, even Doof noted that Norm is the only 'person' who takes Doofania seriously.
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