DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest

weredrago2 · Jul 1, 2021

nwish425 said:
Wow, you guys really went for the throat. Just a complete scorched earth campaign on his mental state.

For what its worth, Hego needed to hear some of that if he was ever going to get rocked out of his golden age dogma. He was so consumed with acting out the trappings of a "hero" that he lost sight of how he could make a positive difference in the here and now.

The rest we threw in because Gordon Ramsey destroying Taco Bell was really funny.

General_Urist said:
Huh, interesting that the Bueno Nacho management fled to Cuba of all places when the feds it (or at least, is seem as a place for them to run in the realm of memes and pop culture). It's traditionally unfriendly to rich Americans. Is Cuba less communist/more open to Americans in this DVV world? Or are the culinary crimes of the management so severe that anyone with any sort of friendship with the Yanks would just send them back, and the only places that would even remotely tolerate them are the USA's sworn enemies?

You're overanalyzing a joke about rich executives fleeing to the Caribbean with boatloads of Del Taco money.

That way lies madness.

TheGleeman · Jul 1, 2021

General_Urist said:
Yeah, DEI isn't the place for Hego it seems. Not when he's in this state. Bolton was a totally cool dude though.

Huh, interesting that the Bueno Nacho management fled to Cuba of all places when the feds it (or at least, is seem as a place for them to run in the realm of memes and pop culture). It's traditionally unfriendly to rich Americans. Is Cuba less communist/more open to Americans in this DVV world? Or are the culinary crimes of the management so severe that anyone with any sort of friendship with the Yanks would just send them back, and the only places that would even remotely tolerate them are the USA's sworn enemies?

Or maybe it was simply a joke about how greedy execs tend to piss off whenever things get rough for them.

EDIT: Ninja´d by QM

Stratagemini said:
Five words: Syndrome. Syndrome. Syndrome. Syndrome. Syndrome.

...Again, Syndromes fall was NOT because of one singular thing, but because of multiple things - both bad luck and deliberate sabotage - working in tandem.

TricMagic · Jul 1, 2021

[ ] Hego resigns from DEI
-[ ] Throw him a going-away party with all employees invited

Such is life. I wish you well buddy.

Tnoz · Jul 1, 2021

Assuming Hego gets let go, is it better or worse if Shego is invited to attend his going-away party?

TricMagic · Jul 1, 2021

Probably worse given it's a sign of things. Perhaps we can invite her to the revitalized Bueno Nacho grand reopening.

Of course, given that action is stewardship and we are locked into two actions, it won't be till later.

TheGleeman · Jul 1, 2021

TricMagic said:
Probably worse given it's a sign of things. Perhaps we can invite her to the revitalized Bueno Nacho grand reopening.

Of course, given that action is stewardship and we are locked into two actions, it won't be till later.

Well, since Shego inofficially is the Ruler of the city where our BN is, it would only be nice of us - but since she (at least officially) doesn´t give a fuck about the whole Kingship business past the actual business, she might just get annoyed at us and decline

DLord · Jul 1, 2021

[ ] Hego resigns from DEI
-[ ] Throw him a going-away party with all employees invited

Phyrexia Unbound · Jul 1, 2021

[ ] Hego resigns from DEI
-[ ] Throw him a going-away party with all employees invited

When does the Moratorium lift?

argonlyzard · Jul 1, 2021

Phyrexia Unbound said:
When does the Moratorium lift?

In about 2h10m

DrVillainous · Jul 1, 2021

Regarding Hego's preferences becoming more difficult to manage, I don't think we need to worry about that too much. It very much sounds like he'll be wanting to devote himself to things that further heroism, which can include training, and there are a lot of potential write-in options for that.

Additionally, he may be willing to go on morally inoffensive but not explicitly heroic quests in order to get some practice in (the Feldrake quests, maybe? Nothing evil about retrieving treasure.)

weredrago2 · Jul 1, 2021

I'll point out that if you apply Bolton's advice and make Bueno Nacho good (no promises) that'll probably be an income boost. Though by that point it would be the Taco of Theseus, with everything that made Bueno Nacho what it once was gone.

In other words, it'd be a net positive but don't do it until Doof has all of his other issues handled. Its as far away from your priorities as humanly possible.

TheGleeman · Jul 1, 2021

weredrago2 said:
I'll point out that if you apply Bolton's advice and make Bueno Nacho good (no promises) that'll probably be an income boost. Though by that point it would be the Taco of Theseus, with everything that made Bueno Nacho what it once was gone.

In other words, it'd be a net positive but don't do it until Doof has all of his other issues handled. Its as far away from your priorities as humanly possible.

Well, given that all BN was could be summed up as "fake-Mexican almost-food that´s so greasy, it might have been the fatty counterweight to the European Butter Mountain of 70s", I am not too bummed about it losing that.

Aside from that, of course revamping BN into an actually *good* fast-food joint would give us an income point - after all, now it would generate its own revenue instead of just being a money sink by merely existing without any customers to speak of.

Simple economics, really.

Tumach · Jul 1, 2021

[ ] Hego resigns from DEI
-[ ] Throw him a going-away party with all employees invited

Yeah, it's time for us to part ways. Also, I feel like Hego pretty much knows what he needs to do to put Bueno Nacho back together properly, but I think he needs time to think about how he's going to do that as a hero. This will give him that time.

MrHobbit · Jul 1, 2021

weredrago2 said:
I'll point out that if you apply Bolton's advice and make Bueno Nacho good (no promises) that'll probably be an income boost. Though by that point it would be the Taco of Theseus, with everything that made Bueno Nacho what it once was gone.

In other words, it'd be a net positive but don't do it until Doof has all of his other issues handled. Its as far away from your priorities as humanly possible.

I don't know, for me the shere hilarity of making BN good is enough to outweigh many of the more productive avenues of progress.

Modus_Tollens · Jul 1, 2021

nwish425 said:
If we let him go he's giving up being a hero for good, full stop, no chance of him ever doing it again. He becomes nothing more than just a manager.

Turns it into a successful business producing genuinely good food, sees his position start to matter, has a life, finds a girl (or theoretically a guy) as dense as he is to settle down with, has a couple mutant children (with or without glowing vats in a basement somewhere), retires at 68, dies of congestive heart failure at 88. It beats most of our prospects for a happy life.

Hell, weren't we planning on further expanding our foodstuff industry? Just because he isn't going to be in our little black book of legbreakers doesn't mean we are exactly done with him. Just done with him as a super.

I'd love to use him as a testbed for new culinary insanity comes out of our harebrained mad science and, well, I've long wanted to ask Experiment 625 whether or not tacos and the like count as sandwiches in his book. We'll subsidize test items, selling them beneath cost, while they are in trial phase and then ratchet up the price if any are good enough to go to mass distribution. So, yeah, Hego should still get a few bones thrown his way?

BurnBright · Jul 1, 2021

nwish425 said:
If we let him go he's giving up being a hero for good, full stop, no chance of him ever doing it again. He becomes nothing more than just a manager.

This isn't necessarily true? It isn't said anywhere in the options, at least. The other option, where he quits Bueno Nacho, does involve abandoning everything else other than heroism.

Stratagemini · Jul 1, 2021