Also, just putting this idea out there - Kat's evil but is he really that bad? As far as I can tell, he just wants to conquer - something we have quite a bit of experience with.

I wonder if we could make a deal to help Kat conquer Arizona or Hawaii or something, especially if P&F lend a hand with the dealmaking

We even have that universal translator! Since Jumba knows about Kat's species, it's safe to say GalFed does too. We could broadcast a message in Kat's native tongue.

Something like

[ ] Use the GalFed universal translator to broadcast an offer of parlay

The idea needs work, but it could be more productive than punching the problem.
 
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[ ] Try to Find the Ringleader
There's more than one way to cut the head off the cat. And that's to… uh… find the head cat? You were going somewhere with this…
I wonder that if we do this, if it will synergize with what Phineas, Ferb, and Candace are doing at the moment.

My current knee jerk reaction is to go for two, and do some combination of find Kat, DEI HQ, and the Avatar, in terms of priorities

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Also, just putting this idea out there - Kat's evil but is he really that bad? As far as I can tell, he just wants to conquer - something we have quite a bit of experience with.

I wonder if we could make a deal to help Kat conquer Arizona or Hawaii or something, especially if P&F lend a hand with the dealmaking

We even have that universal translator! Since Jumba knows about Kat's species, it's safe to say GalFed does too. We could broadcast a message in Kat's native tongue.

Something like

[ ] Use the GalFed universal translator to broadcast an offer of parlay

The idea needs work, but it could be more productive than punching the problem.
Considering Kat's currently been sitting on a plan to have the superpowered cats attack us for months, I'm not sure it would work
 
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So, someone on Discord raised the idea that we might get Buffgram in time for the fight. I agree this is a possibility. Equally Possible I think is the idea that we might get floating unit NOWCA as an additional hero during this quest.

Now, for those of you who think there's no low hanging intrigue fruit left for NOWCA. Let me remind you that Write-Ins exist, and that Nowca probably has lower DC on some actions than our other heroes (like infiltrating Zootopia). We can also put them on Write in Personals or training nationals. Stuff like "Expand NOWCA beyond the Tri-state Area." Actions like those I feel would be helpful to NOWCA the hero unit, but of minimal assistance to monogram.

Beyond that My personal gut instinct is that NOWCA would only give a +20 to intrigue to monogram at most (and maybe some additional 1-5 points here and there to other stats). That would give him 38 Intrigue which I feel like probably puts him on the upper edge of "Competitive" rather than out and out "Superior." L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. had a 14 in learning, so if NOWCA has something similar in Intrigue that would only put Monogram at 32, which is also competitive, but not in a good sense of the word.

Now, I don't have any proof for this, but it feels like how things might go, so I'm stating my opinion for the record.
 
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I wonder that if we do this, if it will synergize with what Phineas, Ferb, and Candace are doing at the moment.

My current knee jerk reaction is to go for two, and do some combination of find Kat, DEI HQ, and the Avatar, in terms of priorities

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Considering Kat's currently been sitting on a plan to have the superpowered cats attack us for months, I'm not sure it would work
I'm comparing this with Sinatron. Kat is not in a position to control Doofania for months on end. Even now, Kat's outgunned and only winning thanks to the element of surprise. They'll need allies to cement their rule which might be difficult as a cat. If I were playing KatQuest and Doofenshmirtz offered an opportunity at stability and a workforce with opposable thumbs, I'd take it.
 
Well since we got rid of LM it would be suitable if we were to replace them with NOWCA since they were the ones we gave them up for.

Beyond that, I'd like to keep them separate simply because that means we'd be able to see them more often as the focus of the action; attaching them to Monogram feels like it would result in them getting rather sidelined.

And of course we rolled crap on the control roll.
 
As a note, choosing NOWCA as a separate hero unit will take us to the hero limit cap. I don't think it matters too much for decision making, but I think it's worth remembering

Also personally, I think Intrigue is the action category that we have the least problems with the number of actions, and we need more specialists. Even if Monogram only is competitive with Tobe, that's still nice that we can spare Tobe from intrigue actions for his other stuff like personals for example
 
[] Two Priorities
-[] Try to Find the Ringleader
-[] Stop the Avatar
[] Create NOWCA as a floating hero unit

I'll most likely be voting for this.

Stopping the avatar to maybe turn it to our side again, and perhaps trying to find Kat while P&F&C are also doing so could be helpful so they don't get killed or anything.
 
I may have misunderstood things, but the avatar seems like a non-threat for the most part. I get that it's a fifteen foot tall stone golem, but big picture, can it do much more than destroy a bakery? Am I misreading the situation?
 
Apologies for the confusion, just to clarify:

Choosing to reorganize OWCA would turn Monogram into an OWCA/NOWCA unit. He would keep his current stats but gain a few small goodies and become capable of floating actions, which is the real prize. We're also debating making floating action heroes not count towards your cap, so your cap could actually go down in that case.


I may have misunderstood things, but the avatar seems like a non-threat for the most part. I get that it's a fifteen foot tall stone golem, but big picture, can it do much more than destroy a bakery? Am I misreading the situation?

The avatar is currently providing a +25 to your enemies' rolls due to the general mayhem and chaos it is causing and the parts of your forces being diverted to make sure it doesnt do any real damage.
 
Apologies for the confusion, just to clarify:

Choosing to reorganize OWCA would turn Monogram into an OWCA/NOWCA unit. He would keep his current stats but gain a few small goodies and become capable of floating actions, which is the real prize. We're also debating making floating action heroes not count towards your cap, so your cap could actually go down in that case.




The avatar is currently providing a +25 to your enemies' rolls due to the general mayhem and chaos it is causing and the parts of your forces being diverted to make sure it doesnt do any real damage.
Thanks for clearing it up. I didn't realize the avatar was giving Kat a boost.
 
I have an announcement to make.

Last week or so, some friends and I played a game. The game was a Secret Santa of superpowers, in the event we got isekai'd somewhere. You never know. We rolled a D4 for the setting and got Gridlocked. From there, I used a Secret Santa bot to assign power givers to power receivers, had peole roll 1D100 to get a feel for the general strength level of what they would receive.

It was good fun and all, but that led to us thinking. What would this actually look like? A gaggle of your QMs and several veteran DVV: Gridlocked players being unceremoniously dropped into the setting with strange and terrible powers at their disposal?

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Degener8: Chapter 1

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At a guess? I reckon it'd look something like this. This is the first part of what I hope is a miniseries done with all of the participants contributing what they did with in the short time they had to acclimate to their new situations.

If you're confused, I'm Arch and MiH is C-Moon. Enjoy!
 
Choosing to reorganize OWCA would turn Monogram into an OWCA/NOWCA unit. He would keep his current stats but gain a few small goodies and become capable of floating actions, which is the real prize. We're also debating making floating action heroes not count towards your cap, so your cap could actually go down in that case.
Well, in that case, I am more fine with going for that option. So mainly ambivalent on that.

Action wise I'm probably going for Kat and the Avatar. See if we can get the +25 roll away as soon as possible
 
I'm comparing this with Sinatron. Kat is not in a position to control Doofania for months on end. Even now, Kat's outgunned and only winning thanks to the element of surprise. They'll need allies to cement their rule which might be difficult as a cat. If I were playing KatQuest and Doofenshmirtz offered an opportunity at stability and a workforce with opposable thumbs, I'd take it.

Kat is in the middle of calling in his species fleet. We need to destroy that transmitter to put a stop to things or he'll have the resources to take over our territory.

Kat meowed with a cackle. If Hego could understand the subtle nuances of Kat's alien language, he would have understood that he was too late to disable the signal. Even now, two fleets were moving into the planet's upper orbit… thought neither was aware of the other. Kat could have explained that, but Kat wasn't interested in dumbing down his dialogue to anything a human could comprehend, so he just aimed his blaster and shot Hego's center of mass instead.
 
So, given what we now know, I think we absolutely need to get the floating action.

We have been explicitly told that it is very hard to get floating actions. "Gain a few small goodies" sounds like it could be some fun traits or personals. We haven't finished all monogram's own personal actions, So there's still room to improve his stats. And don't forget we can give them cool vehicles, and a neat animal base!
 
Apologies for the confusion, just to clarify:

Choosing to reorganize OWCA would turn Monogram into an OWCA/NOWCA unit. He would keep his current stats but gain a few small goodies and become capable of floating actions, which is the real prize. We're also debating making floating action heroes not count towards your cap, so your cap could actually go down in that case.




The avatar is currently providing a +25 to your enemies' rolls due to the general mayhem and chaos it is causing and the parts of your forces being diverted to make sure it doesnt do any real damage.
Oh, in that case we probably want them as floaters. A buffed-up Monogram could be interesting, but if we can buff the unit anyways (looking at you, Animal Uplink tech), then it's better if they're floaters than a Mid-to-High tier Hero that we can't necessarily use due to action economy.
 
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Also? BEST! STRIKETEAM! EVER! It's like the most un-heroic Team-up possible: nobody actually wants to be here, half of them are directly responsible for this mess, and even the ones that care are like "Ugh, another army of evil cat aliens? Give me a break!"

Okay, that last one might just be Doof's narration being seriously unimpressed with the entire thing, but still. It sets the mood, you know? Doof's narration reads less like a Crisis and more like a Tuesday.
 
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The quote says it's too late to disable the signal. I'm gonna guess Kat's race and the GalFed are coming to blows?
Kat meowed with a cackle. If Hego could understand the subtle nuances of Kat's alien language, he would have understood that he was too late to disable the signal. Even now, two fleets were moving into the planet's upper orbit… thought neither was aware of the other. Kat could have explained that, but Kat wasn't interested in dumbing down his dialogue to anything a human could comprehend, so he just aimed his blaster and shot Hego's center of mass instead.
I don't think either of the fleets is Kat's.

I think Kat called up one of the Gal-Fed's other enemies and told them that there was a poorly defended Gal-Fed space outpost around Earth.
Kat then called up Gal-Fed pretending to be a defector or something and told them that an enemy invasion fleet is going to invade Earth.

Both fleets are expecting to destroy the other in an ambush but don't actually have the element of surprise. Kat's plan would be to let them kill each other and then send in Kat's own fleet to pick off the stragglers and take the Earth for themselves.
 
"Oh that's right!" Dennis slapped his forehead. "Sorry buddy, I promised Genghis Khan I'd help him defeat an alien superpowered cat invasion. I won't be able to make you a sandwich unless you come with us."

"We're going." 625 declared firmly.
The best part about this update, IMO, is that Dennis is being entirely sincere here. Like, he is genuinely sorry that his previous obligation prevents him from making his friend a sandwich. There's no intended manipulation here, just Dennis being a good friend.

Of course, like most sensible people 625 is motivated entirely by food so that results in Jumba being strong-armed into helping.
 
Ok, I have a crazy idea: could Juniper apply her dance bonus to controlling the Avatar of Felldrake? It says it applies to anything dance related, so why not make the golem dance? Or even dance-fight?
 
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