Doofenshmirtz Diplomacy check: Do you accept the money?
DC 60 needed
33+18+15-30 (Pride)=36
Failure!
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Ok, now I am genuinely annoyed at Doof.
So they "phrased things incorrectly" and adressed the "care package" to *Danville* instead of *Doofania*...SO WHAT?
Doof, you already know that they are loathe to accept your declaration of succession - them doing so now is nothing new.
And even if they still are seeing Doofania/Danville as theirs, they were still willing to spring for the damage caused.
But thanks to your vanity, those costs now come outta *your pockets* instead.
Sometimes even an Evil Overlord needs to swallow their pride to get anywhere - that´s something our friend David already learned (although he´d dispute being an evil overlord in the first place)
Your Avatar of Feldrake was forcibly shut down and will need an Occult action to repair. Feldrake may get grumpy if you leave it a steaming wreck for too long!
Hego's story will continue shortly.
Major Monogram has been upgraded to the NEW Organization Without A Cool Acronym. His intrigue has increased by 3, and he has become a special hero unit!
Doofenshmirtz is slightly more aware of the existence of sabotage and deception. His Intrigue increases by 1!
Doofenshmirtz has become slightly more adept at managing combat scenarios! His Martial increases by 1!
Phineas and Ferb's Intrigue has… increased by 3.
For the first time in quite a while, Phineas and Ferb have reason to believe less than the actual best of everyone. 'Eternal Optimists' has been reduced by 5.
Roddy Blair has gained 10 loyalty from the Perfect Lair!
You chose to prioritize the people of Doofania above all else. Your public opinion has increased considerably! Public opinion loss from this event has been completely mitigated!
The Galactic Federation is now aware that an executive distress signal was sent from somewhere on the planet!
In the absence of Commander Gantu, Commander Mira Nova has assumed Kingship over the Galactic Federation Earth Wildlife Preserve!
Kat revealed as a Nemesis! Nemesis action unlocked!
Investigate the Cat Mafia Intrigue action unlocked!
Jumba's pet dragon mitigated some of the physical damages!
Doof was unwilling to accept federal relief aid for Kat's assault on Doofania!
You put other concerns above preventing collateral damage, and your beautiful city lies in ruins! Well, ok. It wasn't as bad as it could have been. And most people have insurance. But your Normbot depos are trashed, the power plant desperately needs repair, and several of your self-owned DE-Megamarts have been totally looted of all cat treats available. It's gonna take some doing to get things fixed.
You can:
[ ] Pay 7 income
[ ] Devote 2 Stewardship actions of moderate difficulty to repairing the damage
[ ] Devote 1 Stewardship action and 4 income
There will be a twelve hour moratorium on voting.
Since Felldrake himself isn´t actually one of our Operatives, him getting upset isn´t that pressing an issue - so we might be able to take our time for a bit.
All these stats increases are nice, but two things:
- What does Monogram becoming a "special Hero Unit" mean exactly?
- Not quite sure if P&F having their trait decreasing by 5 is *good* or *bad*...although I have a feeling it´s the latter - which makes us eventually having to fess up to them about Perry even more uncomfortable.
It´s nice that Roddy *gaining* 10 Loyalty on getting that Lair is the only result of him getting Devilled-Egg-Inator-ed - shows that he can be professional about minor hickups that we didn´t even intend to hit him with. As for Hego, we´ll have to wait and see, I think.
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Ok, now to the "big three issues" - GalFeds response, Kat´s whereabouts and our picking-up-the-pieces.
So, GalFed knows that *someone* sent a distress call from Earth directly and Mira has officially taken over control over the Hawaiian Occupational Zone/"Nature Reserve". That one could go either way, but since Mira seems to be less heavy-handed than Gantu and since we got a relatively benignly-minded influence onto the Terran Space Program in the for of our "friends" Xanatos and Shego, we might be able to avert too nasty a fallout by latching onto their interstellar outreach in some form.
Kat still having the formula for Jumbas serum is annoying, but aside from that he has lost a lot of his powerbase. As for what he has left (the Cat Mafia), that one might be taking priority over my earlier plans for NOWCA to Infiltrate Zootopia, being the more pressing issue and all. Aside from that, we´ll have enough to do with the last issue...
OUR REPARATION OF OUR TURF
Seriously, Doofs last roll really bricked up there. If not for him/us choking on pride, the Feds woulda paid for it and we would have actually come out largely on top of everything, since A) us priorizing the people for a bit really came through for us in a clutch on the PR issue (effectively *raising* our standing with civillians instead of *lowering* it like should happened) and B) Jumbas dragon mitigated *some* of the damage. But now we have to really bleed ourselves dry no matter what in order to profit in any way again - namely, *actually making use of our new power plant that we just build*
As for the three options we got now, let´s face it:
We have *no way* to cough up SEVEN INCOME without majorly destabilizing our economic framework, which I expect most other Kings to immediately exploit somehow - Glomgold for one would probably start circling us in the hopes of grabbing some of our weaker and more "break-off-y" subsidiaries. Heck, even *four* Income would be a bit dicey right now, so I am actually leaning towards "sacrificing" our two Steawrdship options for it and preserving our liquid dosh. I know, "medium difficulty" could mean a lot and losing options to grab more money over Steward SUCKS HARD, but A) we got some solid Stew Heroes in our roster like Roddy and Lee (so we should be fine unless we are talking about DC 140+) and B) we got some non-Stew ways to grab some cash like *going on a quest* and yes, that "Commit Supervillainy" Martial we´ve been...*tip-toeing around* outta justified fear about the PR fallout (but with our current civillian PR cushion as well as our Martial units in combo with that option´s low DC, we should be able to load things in our favour)
So yeah, for now I am in favor of option B
Well...
That was... not fun.
Everything than could have gone wrong for us, went wrong for us.
Sigh.
Meeeeh, dunno about that.
Yes, we didn´t roll well in parts at all (namely Hegos arc and the fallout minimisation at the very end), but aside from that we actually did well *enough* against a Crisis on our own (*Twelfth Night* was a team effort between us and David - with him actually tanking most of the damage in the end- . remember?)
- Most of our Heroes involved in it got some kind of bonus outta it
- Our PR actually went *up* instead of down (quite significantly so, in fact)
- Kat left that battle worse off than he entered it, with his local army scattered somewhat and his orbital fleet outright *gone*
- GalFeds *direct* "Prefect" relevant to to Earth - and therefore us - right now just so happens to be one of the nicest and reasonable people around, so with just the right kind of finagling things in space we should be able to "get off scot-free"
So yeah, coulda gone better, but coulda gone a lot worse as well.
