Flubber is a lot like nuclear power in the real world: Statistically, it's actually safer then most forms, but when it does go wrong, it goes REAL wrong...
 
Unnamed Omake
An Omake, from a more just world then ours:
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"Meow meow meow mrow meow mrow mow!" the fluffy cat declared.

Hego blinked. What was happening?

Martial Check: Take advantage of this one last opportunity
DC 100
100+97+28-10 (Glory Daze)-27(Zero)+5(A Hero's Stand)=193
HEROIC Success

Slowly, Hego pulled himself to his feet. He didn't understand what was going on. He rarely did. But someone… someone was standing up for him. Someone was looking death in the face and braving impossible odds. Someone was being a hero. He had to try.

For an instant, he contemplated doing some monologue...Then he remembered what Roddy had said. For once, now was not a time for talk. Now was a time for action.

And so, Hego went barreling forward, slamming straight into that...that...Furless Fiend! Grabbing the Criminal Kitty by the scruff of his neck, Heroic Hego slams the Felonious Feline into the ground!
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Hego's Super Zero penalty removed!
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Kat Martial Check: Eliminate this fool!

Kat Martial Check: 4+36+35+20+5=100
Hego Martial Contest: 72+28-10=90
Kat Bare Success!

Thinking quickly, our Histrionic Hero dodges to the side, and Kat's laser beams do nothing but graze his shoulder!

"What's wrong, kitty? Got a hairball?"

Note to self: Keep it short.

Growling in rage, Kat goes flying at Hego, claws outstretched!

Kat Martial Check: 25+36+35+20+5=121
Hego Martial Contest: 75+28-10=93
Kat Success!

His claws rake across Hego's chest! It doesn't cut deep, but the Historic Hero of Team Go cries out in pain! Kat prepares to slice his neck...

Hego Martial Check: 82+28-10=100
Kat Martial Contest: 1+36+35+20+5=97
Kat Critical Failure!

Right as the claws are about to hit home, Kat is hit from behind! Turning in rage, he sees the dissident from earlier, now ready to throw down. Ingrate!

Hego: Do A Good Deed
DC 100
Hego Martial Check: 85+28-10=103
Bare Success!

The imbecile snatches the rebel out of harm's way an instant before the beams hit! UGH. You really don't have time for this! There's so much more you have to do!

Kat: Run Aground!
49+33+30=112
Hego Intrigue Check: 3+3=6
Kat Critical Success

You retreat back into your army, and flee the scene! The big lug tries to stop you, but you're much faster then him! You and your army flee his assault almost effortlessly.

Later update:

Combatting the cats isn't as flashy as you were hoping for. There's no fantastic feats of backflipping off of buildings or beaning them with fallen lampposts - Well, except from Hego and that familiar-looking cat he seems to have turned. Temujin and Jumba are making slow, methodical work of the beasts, disabling them and knocking them out- even under the threat of death, you just don't have it in your heart to order the doom of so many kitties. NOWCA is fighting from the shadows since a head-on attack would be suicide, with most of the agents disabling their quarries in short order. The cats may have superpowers but your Agents have experience, and the last few months of training with Monogram seem to have really drilled into their heads how to use that experience against real threats.

This doesn't seem to be a full rout… but you have picked up on something. Several of the commanders you've faced have seemed uneasy, as if they're fighting more out of momentum than out of any devotion to… whatever cause they're fighting for, you guess. You're not sure what, you still don't speak cat. It seems there is dissent in the ranks of some sort. Maybe you can take advantage of this?


Doofenshmirtz diplomacy check: Cause further dissent in the ranks!
DC 85 needed
40+18+15=73
Failure!


"Come on guys, we don't have to do this the hard way!" You declare. The chaos stops momentarily. "I mean, I'm already working with a gang of animals! And you're a gang of animals! Eh? Eh?" You look around the crowd. Everyone seems to be on the same page so far. "So! Instead of going on with this… whatever it is, a skirmish? Temujin, could we call this a skirmish? Too big? Too small?" Temujin declines to answer. "Eh, I'm going with 'skirmish'. Instead of this, how about you come work for me instead of whatever horrid creature gives the orders around here? All the milk you want! How about it?"

Kat martial check
60+36+35+15+5-9=142
Doofenshmirtz martial contest
60+20+55+7=142
Tie!

The cats press their assault (some of them, most seem inclined to flee), but it's clear their hearts aren't quite in it. You're not even scratched! A stalemate has been reached...

Later update:

Hego has managed to actually do some fairly successful heroism! His loyalty has increased by 10! Hego's Glory Daze trait has changed to Glory Days: Hego idolizes the old ways, but he's learned some pragmatism from hard experience! He now only suffers a -3 against pragmatic opponents!

Hego has gained Mr. Fluffypants, a defector from the Kat Army, as a sidekick! He adds +7 to Hego's Martial!

Hego has gained combat experience against a pragmatic foe, and acquitted himself well! He gains +5 Martial and +3 Intrigue!
 
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Candace considered the many, many warning signs she could have pointed out; would have pointed out just a few days ago if the idea of Busting something to Phineas and Ferb had crossed her mind. Not just Kat, but all the other things people managed not to know; her mom and their Big Ideas, Jeremy and Little Susie Johnson, the entire city and their evil overlord, apparently.

Candace has realized her lack of communication skills. I feel like we can now have someone besides Technor help her that but I'm not sure who.

Ludivine for theoretical models of how these things should work?
Mirage with her decent Diplo/Intrigue?
Lizzy so they can learn together?
 
Candace has realized her lack of communication skills. I feel like we can now have someone besides Technor help her that but I'm not sure who.

Ludivine for theoretical models of how these things should work?
Mirage with her decent Diplo/Intrigue?
Lizzy so they can learn together?
Maybe Phineas and Ferb can build a therapy device for her. :p Although more seriously she does still dislike Doof so I don't think she'd accept an offer of help/friendship from anyone she knows is connected to him.
 
Maybe Phineas and Ferb can build a therapy device for her. :p Although more seriously she does still dislike Doof so I don't think she'd accept an offer of help/friendship from anyone she knows is connected to him.
They did, in fact, once go into her mind. It's a tragic place. Most notably, we're shwon her rampaging Id hunting the deer-like representation of the two, including smashing up the trees that represent her memories. Implication: Her desire to bust is so strong that it actively RESISTS any of the many times she should have learned her lesson.
 
I mean, how do you think real insurance companies make a profit, exactly? If the crisis is unlikely to happen, then it's perfectly doable.
As Woweed says. Nuclear power plants are insured and that's a pretty good analogue, especially if we corner the market on flubber insurance.

I already said that as long as the covered calamity in a policy isn´t actually happening, everything is well from a business position - but right now, our insurances policies covering cape attacks are active thanks to the Feds framing this Crisis as such a cape incident...meaning that *right now*, we are indirectly losing a lot of money thanks to having policies like that
 
They did, in fact, once go into her mind. It's a tragic place. Most notably, we're shwon her rampaging Id hunting the deer-like representation of the two, including smashing up the trees that represent her memories. Implication: Her desire to bust is so strong that it actively RESISTS any of the many times she should have learned her lesson.
...which episode was this?
 
...which episode was this?

Monster from the Id

After losing a gift that Jeremy made for her, Candace is determined to recreate it. Unfortunately, Candace can't remember what it looks like, so she enlists Phineas and Ferb to use their mind machine to enter into her subconscious and recapture the memory. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz's evil plan is...

I already said that as long as the covered calamity in a policy isn´t actually happening, everything is well from a business position - but right now, our insurances policies covering cape attacks are active thanks to the Feds framing this Crisis as such a cape incident...meaning that *right now*, we are indirectly losing a lot of money thanks to having policies like that
I mean...We'd be paying for it either way. Remember , Doof considers Doofania HIS city, the capital of his empire: Of course he's gonna pay for repairs! The problem here wasn't our insurance policies, it was Doof's stubborn pride refusing to take government help. If anything, it's plausible having Insuricare's insurance policies on every city in the country that has NOT been attacked by superpowered cats is helping our income stay aloat.
 
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I already said that as long as the covered calamity in a policy isn´t actually happening, everything is well from a business position - but right now, our insurances policies covering cape attacks are active thanks to the Feds framing this Crisis as such a cape incident...meaning that *right now*, we are indirectly losing a lot of money thanks to having policies like that

Yeah, I'm not talking about our cape policies - just about the possibility and potential of extreme profit if we were to begin to combat the flubber stigma and insure it.
 
Yeah, I'm not talking about our cape policies - just about the possibility and potential of extreme profit if we were to begin to combat the flubber stigma and insure it.

For that to become feasible, we need to A) somehow clear Flubbers name of the whole Hawaii business (without upsetting the Masquerade as a whole) and B) off Doom as its most public enemy aside from the Feds.
 
Setting Roddy on rebuilding does sound fun. Imagine what we could do if we got him to view the entire city as one big lair and gave him free reign?
 
Watched all of Combos Ninos. Made a stat sheet for the other villain.



Stats

Martial: 8 (While a burly man, Diadoro only exerts himself while running from angry mobs)

Diplomacy: 6 (It takes a Divino's mind altering powers for anyone besides Gomez to see Diadoro in a positive light)

Stewardship: 12 (Knows how to set up and run a business, but tends to give up if its not profitable on day one)

Intrigue: 5 (Has trouble hiding his contempt for others)

Learning: 6 (He's the boss, he hires people to think for him)

Occult: 3 (Can quickly form a plan to profit off chaos demons, but unable to grasp that this is a bad idea)

Traits

Wilted Narciuss: Diadoro has been in a downwards spiral ever since he lost the mayoral race and the favor of the masses. While you don't want him having free reign over a project Gomez suggested a very large participation trophies could satiate him. When assigned to a national action that affects PR, Diadoro's half-baked schemes raise the crit fail threshold by 20. For every two PR NA's Diadoro succeeds at, all of his stats go up by 1 up to a certain point. This point is +3 above the original

Loyalty: -9

Why are you in charge?: -15 (Diadoro doesn't work well under others)

Can you make me a mayor-inator?: +5 (Diadoro thinks you can help him become mayor of Nova Nizza. Decays if an action that can arguably increase his chances is not taken every turn)

Gomez: +1
 
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You're always pointing out why things are terrible and won't work, blowing obstacles out of proportion. That makes it difficult to brainstorm and isn't very constructive.
 
Current Plan for next turn with personals pending Norm interlude:

[ ] Plan: Hunting Cats and Money
-[ ] National Actions:
--[ ][Martial] Perform Supervillainy (Olivia) DC 85 BR 43 RN 42
--[ ][Diplomacy] Recruit from your rolodex - Mesmerella (Technor) DC 70 BR 44/49/54 RN 26/16
--[ ][Diplomacy] Collab with Imagination Institution (Goofy) DC ? BR 50 RN ?
--[ ][Stewardship] Repair 1 (Roddy) DC ? BR 55/70 RN ?
--[ ][Stewardship] Repair 2 (Phineas and Ferb) DC ? BR 66 RN ?
--[ ][Intrigue] Investigate the hatless man (Mirage) DC ? BR 50 RN ?
--[ ][Intrigue] Kat Nemesis Action (Hero? + Coyote/Coyote) DC ? BR ?/38 RN ?
--[ ][Intrigue] Investigate Cat Mafia (Monogram/NOWCA) DC ? BR 41 RN ?
--[ ][Learning] Research sublight drives (Ludivine) DC 140 BR 82 RN 58
--[ ][Learning] AI followup? (Wendy) DC ? BR 98 RN ?
--[ ][Occult] Coven (Gomez?) DC 95 BR ? RN ?
OR --[ ][Occult] Basic Magic Theory (Gomez/Malf) DC 75 BR ?/19 RN ?/56
--[ ] Continue the Feldrake World Tour (Part 2 of ???)
---[] Kitsune (leader)
---[] Janna
---[] Queen Lizzie
---[] Dennis

-[ ] Personal Actions:
--[ ] Doof:
---[ ] Start Writing a Musical
---[ ] Tinker with your Inators
---[ ] Brew a potion
---[ ] Nemesis action
--[ ] Genghis Khan (Get an apartment)
--[ ] Norm Prime (pending interlude)
--[ ] Hego (pending continuation)
--[ ] Max (Powerline concert)
--[ ] Vanessa (Watch the Eggheads)
--[ ] Jumba (Experiment!)
--[ ] Tobe (Train ''''''your ninja'''''' some more)
--[ ] Janus Lee (Work on Personal Projects/Help Jumba Experiment(write in))
--[ ] Alan Bradley (??? (the personal is ???))
--[ ] Tom Lucitor (Rule The Underworld)
--[ ] Wasabi (Organize your Workstation)
--[ ] Malifishmertz (Create Meatlings)
--[ ] Marco Diaz (Train with Macbeth)
-[ ] Item Assignments:
--[ ] Ruby Wings: Dennis
-[ ] Miscellaneous:
--[ ] Don't Overclock TECHNOR
--[ ] Activate an Inator
--[ ] Hire Olivia this turn
 
[ ] Plan: Hunting Cats and Money
I like it

For convience here are the Absent Minded Possibilities with Sublight:
[ ] Re-Develop Digitizer Codes
[ ] Research Large Carnivore Domestication
[ ] Research Dinosaur Weapons Platforms
[ ] Continue the Doofenshmirtz Evil Space Program
[ ] Cure genetic diseases I
[ ] Research Uburnium fuel
[ ] Decrypt GalFed Computers
[ ] Research GalFed Cloaking Tech
[ ] Research Insect Control
[ ] Research Zero Point Energy Technology
[ ] Environmental Adaptations (Dinosaurs)
 
I'd actually say, after thinking on it more, that either Jumba should do Sublight, because he has a larger bonus, or Ludivine should try out the transmissions, which have a much narrower and better set of options to Absent Mind to.
 
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