Agent Russ seemed very effective at using the Yang talisman. Some things may have been set into motion.
Oh SHIT, DREAM QUEEN!!! CODE RED EVERYONE!
The chief suspects are Goofy and Russ, both of whom have unrevealed secrets according to their statblocks. And Russ is the leading suspect, given his familiarity with the paranormal. It has been theorized that moving Russ over the loyalty 50 threshold may have lead to some of his remaining secrets being revealed.
Not to start an argument, but goofy was also in this update.
 
I am really curious as to whether Evelyn's hatred of supers is curable. Its objective fact that the world has gotten a lot worst since the SRA was established, so it might be possible to make her realize at very least that heroes can serve a purpose in this world. In the Incredibles movies the supervillains drastically reduced presence as well after superheroing was outlawed, but in Gridlocked villains are all over the place making life worse for people
For this, honestly one of the easiest ways would be to crunch the numbers and show how her dad couldn't have been saved by any local, active Supers at the time.

As in people that were actively superheroes before the ban was put into place, followed by how close they would have had to be to respond in order to save a man who ignored his safe panic room in order to go hit his display-piece direct phoneline to two particular heroes (after said heroes have been publicly retired due to the law and respected the decision as their government agency support got cut while the heroes' identities presumably were still kept on file).

For goodness sakes, he could've just had the thing set up IN the panic room and had some ACTUAL display piece phones to brag about instead. Dude was fanatically faithful to superheroes, in the suicidally negative meaning of fanatic.

Might have Technor be the one to do it and/or break the news to Evelyn, he has the advantages in psychoanalysis AND experience with supervillainy (his Martial rating including knowledge of tactics would surely help plot out Hero response times).

Of course, "Have you considered it was his own fault?" is probably not the best thing to open with when discussing a dead parent, so it should probably take a few sessions to lead her into coming to the conclusion herself.
 
For this, honestly one of the easiest ways would be to crunch the numbers and show how her dad couldn't have been saved by any local, active Supers at the time.

As in people that were actively superheroes before the ban was put into place, followed by how close they would have had to be to respond in order to save a man who ignored his safe panic room in order to go hit his display-piece direct phoneline to two particular heroes (after said heroes have been publicly retired due to the law and respected the decision as their government agency support got cut while the heroes' identities presumably were still kept on file).

For goodness sakes, he could've just had the thing set up IN the panic room and had some ACTUAL display piece phones to brag about instead. Dude was fanatically faithful to superheroes, in the suicidally negative meaning of fanatic.

Might have Technor be the one to do it and/or break the news to Evelyn, he has the advantages in psychoanalysis AND experience with supervillainy (his Martial rating including knowledge of tactics would surely help plot out Hero response times).

Of course, "Have you considered it was his own fault?" is probably not the best thing to open with when discussing a dead parent, so it should probably take a few sessions to lead her into coming to the conclusion herself.
She would already agree with that thesis. Her point was that people rely on supers even when it makes no sense to, and do so so much they completely give up their own agency. As far as she's concerned, you're agreeing with her:
 
She would already agree with that thesis. Her point was that people rely on supers even when it makes no sense to, and do so so much they completely give up their own agency. As far as she's concerned, you're agreeing with her:
It's entirely the right conclusion, she just needs to dial back a bit on the super-hate in particular.

And since the problem stemmed from emotional closeness to one leading example of someone who gave up their agency to mind-boggling levels of lack of foresight, it would be mentally and emotionally good for her to accept that is not the norm in behavior for the 'innocent bystander' type.

Which is where Technor comes in, being our company therapist! It might even give him a loyalty bonus from such engaging work helping a patient like her, particularly one who is legitimately crazy rather than Our own... Eccentricities?

Getting her into some sessions with him might be tough though.
 
It's entirely the right conclusion, she just needs to dial back a bit on the super-hate in particular.

And since the problem stemmed from emotional closeness to one leading example of someone who gave up their agency to mind-boggling levels of lack of foresight, it would be mentally and emotionally good for her to accept that is not the norm in behavior for the 'innocent bystander' type.

Which is where Technor comes in, being our company therapist! It might even give him a loyalty bonus from such engaging work helping a patient like her, particularly one who is legitimately crazy rather than Our own... Eccentricities?

Getting her into some sessions with him might be tough though.
We might be able to finagle something with her brother that results in her having sessions with technor? He seems like the type to sign her up for therapy if he thought she needed it.

Actually, with the crit fail cascade thats going to happen this turn we probably will get an excuse for him in short order
 
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Her whole evil plan involves keeping that from happening. By the time anyone knows the stuff we're saying she needs therapy for, she will either be in jail or she'll be openly acting as Syndrome 2.0.
Ehhhh. Unsure on that. I genuinely think she might be okay for now. She has enough power that she could have gone against the SRA repeal, I think. It's a definite possibility that she could be good-ish at this point, as long as supers end up well regulated and without too much hero-worship.
(I mean, she's still mind controlling the board, but by good, I mean not trying to do anything bad beyond being the owner of a megacorp.)
 
We might be able to finagle something with her brother that results in her having sessions with technor? He seems like the type to sign her up for therapy if he thought she needed it.
Sadly I think her Intrigue score beats his, she's a pretty good actress/liar to not let him catch on to her true feelings towards Supers in general.

It's probably been too long to offer a joint session with both of them for grief counseling as well, they likely think they're mutually coping well enough by this point.

Dang, We really need her to slip up in order to be aware We could help her in-game (and get an in to do it). Doofenshmirtz would know all about wanting revenge and everything, but she's just so aimless and general with her hate that it cheapens the emotion into mere psychosis.

...THAT'S IT, what she really needs is a NEMESIS! A single target to direct all her hate towards! A person that can react and drive her forwards, to constantly make her rethink her approach to destroy them and what they stand for! Doofenshmirtz can play matchmaker!
 
Sadly I think her Intrigue score beats his, she's a pretty good actress/liar to not let him catch on to her true feelings towards Supers in general.

It's probably been too long to offer a joint session with both of them for grief counseling as well, they likely think they're mutually coping well enough by this point.

Dang, We really need her to slip up in order to be aware We could help her in-game (and get an in to do it). Doofenshmirtz would know all about wanting revenge and everything, but she's just so aimless and general with her hate that it cheapens the emotion into mere psychosis.

...THAT'S IT, what she really needs is a NEMESIS! A single target to direct all her hate towards! A person that can react and drive her forwards, to constantly make her rethink her approach to destroy them and what they stand for! Doofenshmirtz can play matchmaker!
With the crit fail hell that she might be about to go through, I imagine a slip up may come sooner than you think. Also, we already have reason to suspect someone at here company having ulterior motives for the SRA being repealed due to the interlude that just happened
 
With the crit fail hell that she might be about to go through, I imagine a slip up may come sooner than you think. Also, we already have reason to suspect someone at here company having ulterior motives for the SRA being repealed due to the interlude that just happened
This is true. We may need/want to send someone for some spywork to look into them, particularly when We're also trying to improve relations with them/their company.

We do know Sinatron works for/with her, so this could be taken as drumming up support for a reason to need/want the SRA repealed like her brother advocates, plus her getting various criminal outfits tied in might just come across as the Vegas 'Kingdom' she's heading going that route for her Evil enterprises.

After all, David's the totally-legitimate businessman (but has magic stuff covered fairly well on top of his Science and general unflappable demeanor, nothing gets to that guy, seriously), Shego's a... totally-legitimate businesswoman (but IS a Super as well), at least Doom is a politician and therefore openly Evil (even if We still hate him) and generally has Toon-focused motives. If Evelyn wants to run the Gangland Kingdom with a side of Supers, well, Las Vegas certainly lends to the theme.

Meanwhile We're a generalist hodgepodge of totally-Evil, We've got robots, aliens, magic, ghosts, Toons, ninja, Supers, and super-science.

Honestly, it might just be easier to say "Screw it" and solve her problems in true Doofenshmirtz fashion by inventing an Epiphany-inator that causes people to have a profound and personal insight about themselves.
 
Heinz Doofenshmirtz IRL
Heinz Doofenshmirtz IRL
"Behold! The Live-Action-Inator!" The good doctor announces, not knowing that the mere creation of his device has brought prying, ravenous eyes onto their feeble universe.

"No." Emerging from the shadows, Agent Russ makes his presence known. And ignoring the doctor, he pulls out his instrument of destruction for the day: an ACME brand crowbar.

Created by an intern with a laughably poor understanding of Toon-Force, the prototypes were intended to prevent shipments of gags going off prematurely by being the funniest thing in the delivery process. In practice the false sense of security the crowbar brought caused every crate to explode upon being pried open. Russ was not using it for either of its intended purposes but instead for the artistic challenge it brought. To "be funnier" it squirmed and wiggled, it changed color and pattern, and from openings in the shaft new visual gags would pop out every 13 frames.

Animating it was a nightmare but the prospect of rendering it in cgi would hopefully keep the watchers at bay for the time this would take.

With bluntness unbecoming of a secret agent, Russ began to demolish the inator. Not with the self-destruct button, the monstrosity didn't deserve the kids gloves. Bob pulled it apart at the frames, bent anything that gave, and punctured anything that didn't.

After a grueling 20 minutes, the device was nothing more than scrap metal and a self destruct button. Agent Ross gave the optical cavity one last whack before dropping the crowbar onto the good doctor's trademark subsystem.

Pfff.

The explosion was less than spectacular compared to Heinz's other works but the job was accomplished in that nothing remained of the unbeholden inator or the tool used to dismantle it.

To the shadows the agent returned and Doof made a call for Goofy to clean the burn marks. The unnatural quiet being broken by the pharmacist's musings.

"Was he upset with it being a live-inator or an action-inator?"
 
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If we combine heroes into a heroball, do they still take up as many slots as the original heroes?

I assume the heroball would only occupy one slot. We could probably do it with a suitable Inator but it'd wear off at the end of the episode and the slots would be full again. Jooba might be able to do it more permanently but I think Feldrake would be better suited actually. Research actions will need to be allocated first though.
 
...THAT'S IT, what she really needs is a NEMESIS! A single target to direct all her hate towards! A person that can react and drive her forwards, to constantly make her rethink her approach to destroy them and what they stand for! Doofenshmirtz can play matchmaker!

have

have we finally found a use for hego
 
Ehhhh. Unsure on that. I genuinely think she might be okay for now. She has enough power that she could have gone against the SRA repeal, I think. It's a definite possibility that she could be good-ish at this point, as long as supers end up well regulated and without too much hero-worship.
(I mean, she's still mind controlling the board, but by good, I mean not trying to do anything bad beyond being the owner of a megacorp.)

She could have, yes. She could have gone against her brother trying to make heroes work in the public eye in the movie, too.
 
Considering Hego has continued to be a hero, or at least to do good deeds, he might be someone who breaks Evelyn's stereotyping of heroes by being the type of hero she thinks would have come to save them despite the SRA.

new ship begins
 
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