- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
The sticking point for me is there's one very specific aspect of that. Alexander is killed, by David.
DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
- Start date
- Crossover
I still don't think it would get a very severe reaction out of Xanatos (relatively speaking anyways). As I've mentioned before, he knows what Puck is like.
Also, as far as I can tell it wasn't actually the real Xanatos who killed Alexander. It was the Xanatos Program, which was an AI. I would certainly see him being concerned about a rogue AI.
That episode was trippy af.
Lord Ultimus
Beautiful...
- Location
- Undisclosed Warehouse
Lowest DC for a hostile takeover is 200, I imagine Encom's would be sizably larger than that.could we buy out Encome? or take it over?
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
The MCP would make any attempt to do that difficult, that said if we managed to kill it then ENCOM would be running around without a head. If we set things up right I think we could try.could we buy out Encome? or take it over?
- Location
- The UK
How do hostile takeovers work again? In terms of income?
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
We've done buyouts but not a hostile takeover, so we don't know for sure. But the general idea is that if we take over a rivals company we get everything they have. At least I think that's how it works, I might be wrong, at the very least we steal a rival's resources.
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Tobe & Dakota & Cavendish's Excellent Adventure, Part 3- One Hand in the Present
- Location
- Pennsylvania
"So." Jing-Jing summed up. "Then you're here for the same reason we are: to investigate why Mahlson looks the same as he did 50 years ago."
"What?"
Tobe held up a picture from Dr. Zone's long-distant pilot. Cavendish and Dakota looked back and forth between it and each other.
"Huh. You know I never even noticed that." Dakota said.
"Well why are you watching this guys' house then?!?!" Tobe demanded.
"We think he might be a pistachio." Dakota replied.
"A pistachio." Tobe replied blankly.
"Not just any pistachio!" Cavendish interjected. "A Pistachion!"
Binggure blinked. "Wow, you guys are dumb."
"I beg your pardon?!?!" Cavendish squawked.
"Ignore him." Tobe said. "I'm going to need you to explain this in greater detail."
"Alright alright look." Dakota began. "Pistachions are a race of evil pistachio monsters from the future… well, I suppose actually they're from the present, since they started like a year or two ago, but they never actually did anything in the present, just in the future. Well, until they went back in time I guess, but at that point they were in the past which from their perspective would be the future, so it gets kinda confusing about-"
"Skip to the end." Cavendish interrupted.
"Oh right. So like they keep trying to take over the world and junk, not sure why honestly, aside from that they're pretty cool guys. But just a little while ago we caught them messing around in the past- well your past, and our past too sort of, but not necessarily their pa-"
Cavendish glared.
"-anyway Derek tried to disguise himself as Dr. Zone once, we figure he seems like the kinda guy to try the same thing again. Assuming he was actually stopped in this timeline. Or that he ever started in the first place. I mean obviously he did start, but the question is did he start now? Not now now, but past now, as in the current past, past any alterations to-"
"Who's Derek?" Jing-Jing asked, mostly to spare Tobe whose head was smoking.
"Head Pistachion after the Pistachion Prime kicked it." Dakota replied. "Fun guy. Unfortunately a little evil, but hey we all have flaws. Last we knew he was posing as Dr. Zone in the distant past so he could like, slowly kidnap people in order to replace them with Pistachion infiltrators. Like, really slowly. So slowly it would take nearly fifty years."
"Uh." Jumong raised a finger. "How long has it been since Dr. Zone started airing?"
"Oh about fifty-three years."
"This sounds terrible!" Tobe declared. "There's less than no time to lose!"
"How do you know he's actually a Pistachion?" Jing-Jing attempted.
"Well uh, erm-" Cavendish faltered for a moment, then rallied. "Because he hasn't aged! Clearly it must be a Pistachion disguise!"
"Good enough for me!" Tobe declared. "C'mon everyone, help me break down the door!"
"Yeah!" Binggure and Jumong cheered.
"Yeah!" Dakota agreed.
"Yea- wait, what?" Cavendish asked.
Cavendish blinked as a four-part blur blasted past him, followed a moment later by the sound of splintering wood.
"Hands where I can see 'em, nut guy!" Dakota declared to a stunned Mahlson.
"..."
"Yeah, yeah ok. Not my best line." Dakota admitted.
---
"Alright Mr. Peanut." Tobe began, shining a flashlight into the eyes of the now tied up TV star.
"Pistachio." Cavendish corrected automatically.
"If that is your real name." Tobe continued.
"What is this?!?!" Orton demanded in a light New Zealander accent. Without his signature and very silly Dr. Zone outfit he looked like a very average man, somewhere in his mid 30s with a cleft chin and light brown hair.
"We'll ask the questions here!" Dakota declared before leaning in next to Tobe. "Uhh, what is this?"
"I'm doing an interrogation." Tobe replied.
"Oh, ok." Dakota immediately got into Orton's face. ""What's your favorite zoo animal?!?!"
"You're all mad."
"We're furious!" Binggure replied. "How could you deceive your loyal fans for so long?!"
"What?"
"Don't play dumb with us!" Jumong interjected. "That's our job!"
"You heard the man, get talking!" Dakota finished.
"I have no idea what is going on, but you've picked the worst possible time for whatever this is. I'm due to be Eyouthanized any second now, and I'm not responsible for what might happen if you're still here in a few minutes."
"Don't you dare take the coward's way out!" Tobe bellowed obnoxiously.
"You have so much to live for!" Dakota added, hostility now forgotten.
"Who will provide vocal lines for the new animated reboot?!?" Jumong begged.
"What?! No that's not what I-Who are you people?!?"
"What, don't remember your old pals Cavendish and Dakota?" Dakota interrogated. "That's it, I've heard enough, you're definitely a Pistachion, come on!"
Dakota grabbed Orton's face and began trying to pull it off.
"Ow-you- stop!"
"Man, have you been wearing this mask for the whole fifty-three years or something? It's really stuck on there."
"That's because it's not a mask!" Orton yelled, trying again to free himself.
"Then how come you don't remember us, huh? 1965, crazy time adventures, pistachio monsters, the works?"
"There… has been some pretty severe alterations to time." Cavendish noted. "It's possible in this timeline we never met at all."
"Then how did he get inspired to create Dr. Zone?" Dakota asked.
"Dr. Zone was inspired by actual time travel?!?" Jumong asked.
"Yes." Cavendish frowned, "And yet it is somehow still completely inaccurate."
"You two had nothing to do with Dr. Zone!" Orton replied. "When I was first building out the show, it was radically different and far less weird. My studio came to me and told me I needed to get things weirder to do well, so I racked my brain for days until a notebook full of wild and fantastical story ideas showed up on my bedside table one morning. I must have written it in a fugue state or something. After that ran dry I got most of my inspiration by simply watching the many strange things that occur in Danville. You could have read all about it in my memoirs, instead of assaulting me."
Orton gestured with his head towards the three books on his mantelpiece, labeled 'I Am Not Dr. Zone' 'I Am Dr. Zone' and, strangely, 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
"So you're… not a humanoid pistachio bent on world conquest then." Dakota said, stepping back sheepishly.
"No! Although actually, that gives me an idea for a new story arc… blast it I need my pen." Orton wiggled against his bonds.
"But if you're not an evil pistachio…" Tobe said slowly. "Then why do you still look so young and spry?"
Knock knock
"Who is it?" Tobe asked gormlessly, turning toward the front door.
A moment later it was blasted open by a figure in black and gold body armor, full of spikes and angles. Two gleaming shoulderpads were shaped like stylized pauldrons, and its spiked helm bore resemblance to a crown.
The figure held up an enormous metal and glass ray gun done in the same style as the rest of their outfit. A heavily modulated voice echoed forth.
"What the hell is going on here?!?!"
"What?"
Tobe held up a picture from Dr. Zone's long-distant pilot. Cavendish and Dakota looked back and forth between it and each other.
"Huh. You know I never even noticed that." Dakota said.
"Well why are you watching this guys' house then?!?!" Tobe demanded.
"We think he might be a pistachio." Dakota replied.
"A pistachio." Tobe replied blankly.
"Not just any pistachio!" Cavendish interjected. "A Pistachion!"
Binggure blinked. "Wow, you guys are dumb."
"I beg your pardon?!?!" Cavendish squawked.
"Ignore him." Tobe said. "I'm going to need you to explain this in greater detail."
"Alright alright look." Dakota began. "Pistachions are a race of evil pistachio monsters from the future… well, I suppose actually they're from the present, since they started like a year or two ago, but they never actually did anything in the present, just in the future. Well, until they went back in time I guess, but at that point they were in the past which from their perspective would be the future, so it gets kinda confusing about-"
"Skip to the end." Cavendish interrupted.
"Oh right. So like they keep trying to take over the world and junk, not sure why honestly, aside from that they're pretty cool guys. But just a little while ago we caught them messing around in the past- well your past, and our past too sort of, but not necessarily their pa-"
Cavendish glared.
"-anyway Derek tried to disguise himself as Dr. Zone once, we figure he seems like the kinda guy to try the same thing again. Assuming he was actually stopped in this timeline. Or that he ever started in the first place. I mean obviously he did start, but the question is did he start now? Not now now, but past now, as in the current past, past any alterations to-"
"Who's Derek?" Jing-Jing asked, mostly to spare Tobe whose head was smoking.
"Head Pistachion after the Pistachion Prime kicked it." Dakota replied. "Fun guy. Unfortunately a little evil, but hey we all have flaws. Last we knew he was posing as Dr. Zone in the distant past so he could like, slowly kidnap people in order to replace them with Pistachion infiltrators. Like, really slowly. So slowly it would take nearly fifty years."
"Uh." Jumong raised a finger. "How long has it been since Dr. Zone started airing?"
"Oh about fifty-three years."
"This sounds terrible!" Tobe declared. "There's less than no time to lose!"
"How do you know he's actually a Pistachion?" Jing-Jing attempted.
"Well uh, erm-" Cavendish faltered for a moment, then rallied. "Because he hasn't aged! Clearly it must be a Pistachion disguise!"
"Good enough for me!" Tobe declared. "C'mon everyone, help me break down the door!"
"Yeah!" Binggure and Jumong cheered.
"Yeah!" Dakota agreed.
"Yea- wait, what?" Cavendish asked.
Cavendish blinked as a four-part blur blasted past him, followed a moment later by the sound of splintering wood.
"Hands where I can see 'em, nut guy!" Dakota declared to a stunned Mahlson.
"..."
"Yeah, yeah ok. Not my best line." Dakota admitted.
---
"Alright Mr. Peanut." Tobe began, shining a flashlight into the eyes of the now tied up TV star.
"Pistachio." Cavendish corrected automatically.
"If that is your real name." Tobe continued.
"What is this?!?!" Orton demanded in a light New Zealander accent. Without his signature and very silly Dr. Zone outfit he looked like a very average man, somewhere in his mid 30s with a cleft chin and light brown hair.
"We'll ask the questions here!" Dakota declared before leaning in next to Tobe. "Uhh, what is this?"
"I'm doing an interrogation." Tobe replied.
"Oh, ok." Dakota immediately got into Orton's face. ""What's your favorite zoo animal?!?!"
"You're all mad."
"We're furious!" Binggure replied. "How could you deceive your loyal fans for so long?!"
"What?"
"Don't play dumb with us!" Jumong interjected. "That's our job!"
"You heard the man, get talking!" Dakota finished.
"I have no idea what is going on, but you've picked the worst possible time for whatever this is. I'm due to be Eyouthanized any second now, and I'm not responsible for what might happen if you're still here in a few minutes."
"Don't you dare take the coward's way out!" Tobe bellowed obnoxiously.
"You have so much to live for!" Dakota added, hostility now forgotten.
"Who will provide vocal lines for the new animated reboot?!?" Jumong begged.
"What?! No that's not what I-Who are you people?!?"
"What, don't remember your old pals Cavendish and Dakota?" Dakota interrogated. "That's it, I've heard enough, you're definitely a Pistachion, come on!"
Dakota grabbed Orton's face and began trying to pull it off.
"Ow-you- stop!"
"Man, have you been wearing this mask for the whole fifty-three years or something? It's really stuck on there."
"That's because it's not a mask!" Orton yelled, trying again to free himself.
"Then how come you don't remember us, huh? 1965, crazy time adventures, pistachio monsters, the works?"
"There… has been some pretty severe alterations to time." Cavendish noted. "It's possible in this timeline we never met at all."
"Then how did he get inspired to create Dr. Zone?" Dakota asked.
"Dr. Zone was inspired by actual time travel?!?" Jumong asked.
"Yes." Cavendish frowned, "And yet it is somehow still completely inaccurate."
"You two had nothing to do with Dr. Zone!" Orton replied. "When I was first building out the show, it was radically different and far less weird. My studio came to me and told me I needed to get things weirder to do well, so I racked my brain for days until a notebook full of wild and fantastical story ideas showed up on my bedside table one morning. I must have written it in a fugue state or something. After that ran dry I got most of my inspiration by simply watching the many strange things that occur in Danville. You could have read all about it in my memoirs, instead of assaulting me."
Orton gestured with his head towards the three books on his mantelpiece, labeled 'I Am Not Dr. Zone' 'I Am Dr. Zone' and, strangely, 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
"So you're… not a humanoid pistachio bent on world conquest then." Dakota said, stepping back sheepishly.
"No! Although actually, that gives me an idea for a new story arc… blast it I need my pen." Orton wiggled against his bonds.
"But if you're not an evil pistachio…" Tobe said slowly. "Then why do you still look so young and spry?"
Knock knock
"Who is it?" Tobe asked gormlessly, turning toward the front door.
A moment later it was blasted open by a figure in black and gold body armor, full of spikes and angles. Two gleaming shoulderpads were shaped like stylized pauldrons, and its spiked helm bore resemblance to a crown.
The figure held up an enormous metal and glass ray gun done in the same style as the rest of their outfit. A heavily modulated voice echoed forth.
"What the hell is going on here?!?!"
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- Location
- Germany
Iirc we "weaken their control over their polity" - what that means per se probably depends on *who* is the King in question and how well we suceed.
For example, I would expect Xanatos to have *thousands* of failsafes against hostile takeover (legal, technological and occult) and therefore us staging one against him to barely affect his economic infrastructure.
That being said, I don´t want to attack him in particular at all in the first place and am simply using him as a tangible quantity. Now, someone comparetively "weak and inconsequential" among Kings like Bellwether, *that* would be a totally different "beast", so to speak.
- Location
- USA
So... who's the armored guy? I'm drawing a blank.
- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This is the problem with your 2nd best intrigue hero-unit/ball consisting of idiots.
You'll find stuff out but you are going to burn some bridges along the way.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You say "problem", but assigning Mirage to this wouldn't have been half as entertaining.
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
According to Discord speculation, most likely Royal Pain, the antagonist of Sky High.
- Location
- some computer lab
oh hey, weren't they working with Shego at the Golden Sands thing?
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
Yep, she betrayed us to Sinatron.
Huh, it's some random armor guy? I was honestly expecting the problem to come from that random girl on the bike from part 1 
Is that what happened? Doesn't seem like it did much in that case.
Okay. What the fuck. First of all it's Doofania.
Is that journal just from Milo Murphy with the time travel Bill'd away, a random journal that he actually wrote in a fugue, or a journal from some other franchise?
Like Gravity Falls...
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
She's the one who told Sinatron we stole the chip, the entire escape scene was because of her.
- Location
- Germany
Doesn´t ring a bell... then again, I never watched Sky High before.
So, you guys think Gwen (the gal Shego got her muscle for the Sands heist from) is involved somehow?
- Location
- USA
Oh yeah, wasn't a part of sky high something that would make people younger?
That would fit with this.
That would fit with this.
- Location
- Somewhere nearby.
Her man weapon was a device called the Pacifier, which made things younger and she wanted to use to turn all of Sky High into babies she could raise to be evil.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
We don't know that the person in the armor isn't random bike girl.Huh, it's some random armor guy? I was honestly expecting the problem to come from that random girl on the bike from part 1
- Location
- Philippines
Oh I get it now she could be a fan so she use the baby ray on him for youth touch up... why did she resort to villainy If she could get rich with just that?