Soooo, yeah. Remember how I had said earlier that Xanatos doesn't take Doof seriously? Well he does now bucko!





I really want Doof to be a legit variable Xanatos needs to consider. I don't want us to actually be enemies or a threat but competent instead.


I mean even when Doof was just acting out his role as a villain he is just bullshit with his inventions. Now we will soon be adding magic, the universe isnt ready.
 
I really want Doof to be a legit variable Xanatos needs to consider. I don't want us to actually be enemies or a threat but competent instead.
At the very least we've shown Xanatos that yes, we do know what we're talking about in regards to robotics, we're also capable of ground-breaking genetics research that produces viable stable results, and that we're aware of magic. I fully expect him to send in some infiltration units next turn to find out what the hell our game is.

And then he gets home and finds that the "top man" Doofenschmirtz sent was Goofy and his paranoia will either increase exponentially, or decrease.
 
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So I was thinking, while there's definitely a few Stewardship options I really want to take, ACME instant delivery, McFist, etc, depending on how much talking with Xanatos has lowered the DC we should probably make relocating the castle a priority

Partly because Xanatos knows that we're interested and I don't want to lose anything from Doofs ancestral castle because Xanatos sent people to investigate it but mostly because we don't have a single Occult hero

Which means that every time we take an Occult action it's entirely up to the dice whether it'll be a success, failure or critical failure and that's just asking for disaster
 
So I was thinking, while there's definitely a few Stewardship options I really want to take, ACME instant delivery, McFist, etc, depending on how much talking with Xanatos has lowered the DC we should probably make relocating the castle a priority

Partly because Xanatos knows that we're interested and I don't want to lose anything from Doofs ancestral castle because Xanatos sent people to investigate it but mostly because we don't have a single Occult hero

Which means that every time we take an Occult action it's entirely up to the dice whether it'll be a success, failure or critical failure and that's just asking for disaster
That action is at a very high DC of 200. And our highest stewardship bonus is 47. Even with a DC reduction from the XP, we'd still need the Dice to explode to have a chance of succeeding.

To me, that would be way too big a risk until the DC for it is lowered to a more manageable level.

The only other way to boost our chances are omakes; and I doubt it would make enough of a difference to matter.
 
That action is at a very high DC of 200. And our highest stewardship bonus is 47. Even with a DC reduction from the XP, we'd still need the Dice to explode to have a chance of succeeding.

To me, that would be way too big a risk until the DC for it is lowered to a more manageable level.

The only other way to boost our chances are omakes; and I doubt it would make enough of a difference to matter.
Yes but talking with Xanatos lowers the DC for it since he's done it before, though but how much I'm not sure

If it doesn't lower in enough to be viable then the instant delivery action would probably lower the DC some as well, since being able to instantaneously transport parts of the castle to Doofania rather than having to transport them all the way there physically would certainly make it easier
 
So, here's a question. What the hell are Xanatos' other stats like if his base Intrigue is seventy-two?!
He's a smart guy, as evident by the robotics work he does. He's intrigue focused. He can fight pretty good for just an average guy. He's diplomatic to the extreme. He runs his own company. He probably has excellent base stats but not so good traits. After all, the only reason he is where he is today is because he had to time travel and cheat to make himself his own self starter. He also probably has a malus when he deals with anyone who does have higher base stats or a higher equivalent trait then his own. When he comes across someone or something that's just outright better than him in the series he has to default to trickery in order to succeed.
 
He's a smart guy, as evident by the robotics work he does. He's intrigue focused. He can fight pretty good for just an average guy. He's diplomatic to the extreme. He runs his own company. He probably has excellent base stats but not so good traits. After all, the only reason he is where he is today is because he had to time travel and cheat to make himself his own self starter. He also probably has a malus when he deals with anyone who does have higher base stats or a higher equivalent trait then his own. When he comes across someone or something that's just outright better than him in the series he has to default to trickery in order to succeed.
I would say that he's got high Intrigue and Diplomacy, middling Stewardship and Learning and Martial is his dump stat

Not that he's bad at any of those things but his success in the latter three fields tends to be more because of his mastery of the former two
 
I am tentatively willing to pledge my 500 XP to lowering the DC of moving the castle, if it ends up still being too rich for our blood after Xanatos's advice.
 
Upside to Xanatos taking us seriously is if we are ever in a position to warn him about Bill he will listen. Even if none of the other kings take us seriously they will listen to Xanatos. He could end up being our lifeline for news we need to get out to the others.
 
Downside to Xanatos taking us seriously? Demona may decide we're worth looking into. She and Xanatos were allies in the show's pilot episodes after all...
 
Welp, either way next up is dinner, a show and the real meat of the heist.
 
If this is an ultimate victory Xanatos, he is probably immortal by most measures, isn't the lowest ranked member of the Illuminati, and has used the Phoenix Gate like it was going out of style... if less as he gradually got more to lose. The man spurred his own rise to power using time travel. We don't know how old this particular Xanatos is.

He might have crazy high stats because he's a thousand years old.

And, hoo-boy, I don't want to think about his right hand man. Puck is ancient. The numerical value for some of his stats is probably "yes".
 
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If this is an ultimate victory Xanatos, he is probably immortal by most measures, isn't the lowest ranked member of the Illuminati, and has used the Phoenix Gate like it was going out of style... if less as he gradually got more to lose. The man spurred his own rise to power using time travel. We don't know how old this particular Xanatos is.

He might have crazy high stats because he's a thousand years old.

And, hoo-boy, I don't want to think about his right hand man. Puck is ancient. The numerical value for some of his stats is probably "yes".
I doubt that it's ultimate victory Xanatos for the same reason it's not ultimate victory Bill Cipher
 
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