Not sure on that specifically, but using this to get Monogram to feed the fed's secrets back to us sounds cool. God, trying to turn our failures into wins...I see why Xanatos is so happy now.
DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
- Start date
- Crossover
CupswithsomeDude
Very Tired
- Location
- Soup
I had a thought, what is keeping us from teaching Vanessa or Norm how to build inators? It might take a while, but a random second inator option might be cool and for Norm it could give him a means of turning himself into a real boy. Think of the bonding opportunity for Norm and us.
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No. That sort of thing would take an absolutely bullshit amount of personal actions from Doof. Inators alone are already trouble enough. Vanessa has no desire to become a "second Doof" while with Norm we can just upgrade him with AI improvements.
- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
My head cannon is that Vanessa has a 1 inator limit. And getting her psyche to that point means that we're approaching a "take everyone down with us" ending.
Lifeandlice
Practitioning side-character
- Location
- Usa
Vanessa likely has no interest whatsoever and furthermore isn't a born genius like her pops (whatever else folks wanna say about him, Doof is a legitimate genius)
Norm...until we upgrade his AI isn't he barely sapient? Inators don't work on Magic or any kinda Physics to my understanding so you probably need some level of Sapience and in born Genius to make that basket of Abstract Conceptualization work...or madness, given Doofs backstory and personality he probably legit has an Orange and Blue style mentality.
Vanessa maybe has the potential to be like Doof given enough time (That 18 Learning has to come from somewhere, and P&F indicate that even inborn Genius doesn't help much if you simply haven't lived long enough to learn stuff), but, yeah, she has no real intrest. I wouldn't be overly surprised if she gets a mini-Inator table at some point, but it'd take a LOT of time and effort. Also, I will note, Inators technically do follow the laws of physics, albeit the ones of the DVV universe which are clearly a lot more permissive then ours. The reason they're not reverse-engineerable is because they're ABSURDLY advanced. They're technically normal-ish tech, but tech so far ahead of anything we have that trying to figure it out is like trying to explain a cellphone to a chimpanzee. That's part of what makes Doof a MAD scientist, I think. To put it another way, normal science, as seen with our Learning actions leading into other ones and so on, goes A to B to C to D. Doof's Mad Science Inators go from A to Q to Pineapple to D. The end result might be the same, but he's leapfrogged a few steps ahead, so we don't have the tools to build the tools.
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DEI Sleep habits
- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
DEI Sleep habits
Doof - Ruined by Mad science.Goofy - Crash lands into his bed at 9 pm and wakes up via alarm at 7.
NOWCA - Someone is always watching Doof.
Wile E - Having never seen the sun set in the desert he tries to get to sleep before that happens.
Khan - Decent scheduled but the lightest sleeper on staff.
Norm - Batteries are good enough that he can do simple tasks while the weasel sleeps.
Dennis - must have comically large midnight snack.
Technor - 24 hour therapy, 15 hours of continuous villainy.
Max - Goes to bed at 8 so he doesn't have to hear his dad snore.
Mirage - Unknown
Vanessa - Standard teenager habits
Janna - Extreme teenager habits
Jumba - Knows exactly how the lack of sleep messes with him physically but ignores it for evil genius aesthetic.
Ludivine - Can fall asleep halfway through configuring a death ray.
Lizzy - Does not sleep as far as anyone knows.
Tobe - Will forget to sleep unless Vagabonds remind him.
P&F - Adhere to bed time unless inspiration strikes.
Janus Lee - Is up all night designing OC's. Needs exorbitant amounts of caffeine to tolerate peers.
Kitsune - Seen asleep in workspace. It might be an illusion, but no one is stupid enough to check
Alan - Stares at computer screens long past midnight. Waiting.
Wendy - Practices what she preaches to kids.
Roddy Blair - 9 to 5 work 10 to 6 sleep. Charges extra for anything that throws him off schedule.
Tom - Won't sleep in same dimension as Janna if he can help it.
Wasabi - 10 hours of sleep. He will not let anything prevent that other than his stress.
Marco - Scissor lag messes him up.
Juniper - Night owl ready to do a midnight gig. Somewhat cranky if a music number occurs before 8 but hides it well.
Gomez - Sleeps when Doof sleeps.
Mesmerella - Needs sensory deprivation to sleep. Somewhat paranoid about her tech being used against her.
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Interlude: Deja Vu
- Location
- Pennsylvania
Janus Lee smiled. He could hardly believe how his luck had turned around over the past few months, ever since his company was bought up by one of the strangest megacorps operating in the US. He had hoped to secure the barest bit of funding and continue his great work in secret, maybe after convincing the CEO that it could be useful… and contrary to his expectations, here he was working on a project of rampant chaos with an alien geneticist.
"So let me get this straight… this experiment-"
"Experiment 102-E!" Jumba corrected.
"Yes, yes, 102-E should be able to induce feelings of… intense deja vu in subjects?"
"Haha, yes! Brilliant, isn't it!"
"I'd say more like impossible."
"With power of science, all things are possible! Just imagine, populace will not remember completing certain things and have to do them over and over and over again! Mass chaos will ensue as the power grid is overloaded, toilets overflow, and supermarkets run out of supplies as people buy too much canned bread! Inserting 102-E into population center will lead to mass unrest and destabilize area for takeover."
"Are you… certain about testing it out here? Not that I particularly care, but remember what happened the last time the boss asked his mad scientists to go crazy. He's got a very exacting view of chaos and decided to fire the last group."
"Baaaah." Jumba groaned. "Is mad scientist himself, put 'evil' on business card. Cannot be making quiche without breaking dozen eggs. What is three or four dozen casualties?"
"Three or four reasons that we both get fired and have to work out of a dumpster somewhere?"
Jumba groaned. "Fine. 102-E, no casualties." Jumba said, sternly wagging a finger.
The head facing him blinked in response.
"There. Is most we can do. Now, let us watch results!"
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Candace Flynn's terrible year was not improving in the slightest.
Oh sure, their evil superpowered cat ran for the hills after being found out, but all that meant was the little mongrel was still out there, planning something! Her mom still hadn't let up on the grounding, which meant that her chances to bust Phineas and Ferb were few and far between. Take today, for instance.
After they got out of school her brothers had gone straight to Danville Lake with an industrial mixer and a truckload of jello powder, hoping to turn it into a combination bounce house/dessert for all of their friends. Her mom didn't want to hear a word of it and proceeded to ignore all 30 of Candace's phone calls and every last one of her 200 texts. It was getting ridiculous! Right after she finished having her hair done, she went straight back into the salon and had it done again!
Candace could do nothing but watch and seethe as the bounce house was a massive success and the dessert incredibly less so.
"You know Ferb, in hindsight this might not have been the best idea. All the fish and pond scum makes the jello taste funny."
"Also, people's feet." Ferb added.
The only picture Candace could snap of the lake came out as a fuzzy, indistinct purple blob, virtually identical to how it looked when it wasn't polluted by jello. When the Danville Wastewater Reclamation System cleaned it up in under thirty seconds, Candace knew that she had failed.
So why was she sneaking off to the woods to snap pictures again? She could've sworn that she did it before, but there her brothers were, pulling out the mixer and the truckload of jello powder!
"So let me get this straight… this experiment-"
"Experiment 102-E!" Jumba corrected.
"Yes, yes, 102-E should be able to induce feelings of… intense deja vu in subjects?"
"Haha, yes! Brilliant, isn't it!"
"I'd say more like impossible."
"With power of science, all things are possible! Just imagine, populace will not remember completing certain things and have to do them over and over and over again! Mass chaos will ensue as the power grid is overloaded, toilets overflow, and supermarkets run out of supplies as people buy too much canned bread! Inserting 102-E into population center will lead to mass unrest and destabilize area for takeover."
"Are you… certain about testing it out here? Not that I particularly care, but remember what happened the last time the boss asked his mad scientists to go crazy. He's got a very exacting view of chaos and decided to fire the last group."
"Baaaah." Jumba groaned. "Is mad scientist himself, put 'evil' on business card. Cannot be making quiche without breaking dozen eggs. What is three or four dozen casualties?"
"Three or four reasons that we both get fired and have to work out of a dumpster somewhere?"
Jumba groaned. "Fine. 102-E, no casualties." Jumba said, sternly wagging a finger.
The head facing him blinked in response.
"There. Is most we can do. Now, let us watch results!"
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Candace Flynn's terrible year was not improving in the slightest.
Oh sure, their evil superpowered cat ran for the hills after being found out, but all that meant was the little mongrel was still out there, planning something! Her mom still hadn't let up on the grounding, which meant that her chances to bust Phineas and Ferb were few and far between. Take today, for instance.
After they got out of school her brothers had gone straight to Danville Lake with an industrial mixer and a truckload of jello powder, hoping to turn it into a combination bounce house/dessert for all of their friends. Her mom didn't want to hear a word of it and proceeded to ignore all 30 of Candace's phone calls and every last one of her 200 texts. It was getting ridiculous! Right after she finished having her hair done, she went straight back into the salon and had it done again!
Candace could do nothing but watch and seethe as the bounce house was a massive success and the dessert incredibly less so.
"You know Ferb, in hindsight this might not have been the best idea. All the fish and pond scum makes the jello taste funny."
"Also, people's feet." Ferb added.
The only picture Candace could snap of the lake came out as a fuzzy, indistinct purple blob, virtually identical to how it looked when it wasn't polluted by jello. When the Danville Wastewater Reclamation System cleaned it up in under thirty seconds, Candace knew that she had failed.
So why was she sneaking off to the woods to snap pictures again? She could've sworn that she did it before, but there her brothers were, pulling out the mixer and the truckload of jello powder!
Interlude: Deja Vu
- Location
- Pennsylvania
Far off in Castle Doofhawk, the self-proclaimed Dread-full Warlock Malifishmirtz was just putting the finishing touches on his latest project. For whatever reason his descendant saw fit to make it rain obscene amounts of meat all over Danville, making everyone really upset and causing a lot of property damage. While that certainly was evil, which he could respect, it didn't really do anything besides make people angry.
Well, at least not until today! With the help of some hapless servants (apparently it was polite to call them 'interns' nowadays) he had concocted what was sure to be his vilest creation ever- a massive pot of decaying meat! This baby would produce so many meatlings that he didn't even know what to do with them!
"Fifteen sprigs of parsley, eighty-nine peppercorns, three grains of parad- oh no, I almost made a huuuuuge mistake there. Adding grains of paradise to something so vile would… well, I don't know what it would do. Nothing good though! Now I just need to let it simmer for another seventeen hours, and summon up a bunch of pure evil minions!"
Malifishmirtz floated through a wall to the magic picture box his descendant had installed. He still didn't understand most of whatever was on there, but it was fun watching that one show about the downfall of the Janissaries or whatever they were calling themselves nowadays.
Five minutes later, a strange feeling came over him. "Wait a second, am I forgetting something? Oh yeah, the seasonings! Ha! Can't do meat magic without seasonings, silly me. Let's see now, parsley, peppercorns, grains of paradise… wait."
The massive pot began to rumble.
"Uh oh."
What happened next was a forty-seven hour cavalcade of disaster as hideous creatures made of rotting meat threw themselves into traffic, clogged up storm drains, and utterly ruined a project to turn a nearby lake into a combination bounce house/dessert. Rotten meat and jello combined into a hideous blockage in the Wastewater Reclamation System, requiring the plant to be taken offline and deep-cleaned for hours on end. Every hand available had to deal with the chaos, only for them to then run themselves ragged all over again as Drifter convinced them it still needed to be done. At the end of it all, Jumba and Janus stumbled exhaustedly into their lab once again.
"Excuse me?" Alan asked, interrupting the duo's conversation on 'temporal repolarization'. "I was asked to examine some data you have on file here, something about foreign polities? Perhaps the data structure is simply unusual, but I can't seem to find anything of the sort."
"Oh, you are meaning old Federation news-files? I am deleting those months ago to free up computer space. Twenty terabytes of data, and yet you are having so many different recipes for deep-dish pizza."
Jumba contemplated Alan for a moment, then leaned over to Janus.
"Are humans supposed to be turning that shade of chartreuse?"
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Decrypt Galfed Computers has been removed from your action list.
Malifishmirtz's meatlings ran amok in the city, causing untold amounts of chaos! All Stewardship actions next turn take a -20 penalty. Quests are not affected.
Experiment 102-E: Drifter is a squat, gray humanoid with two heads, one of which is always looking behind it. Drifter forces victims into intense bouts of deja vu through manipulation of personal tachyon flux, leading to mass chaos as individuals repeat actions over and over again in confusion. Hero units that failed their actions this turn MUST take those actions again on the next as 102-E grows used to his power. If an action is for any reason not available, that hero loses their action.
Well, at least not until today! With the help of some hapless servants (apparently it was polite to call them 'interns' nowadays) he had concocted what was sure to be his vilest creation ever- a massive pot of decaying meat! This baby would produce so many meatlings that he didn't even know what to do with them!
"Fifteen sprigs of parsley, eighty-nine peppercorns, three grains of parad- oh no, I almost made a huuuuuge mistake there. Adding grains of paradise to something so vile would… well, I don't know what it would do. Nothing good though! Now I just need to let it simmer for another seventeen hours, and summon up a bunch of pure evil minions!"
Malifishmirtz floated through a wall to the magic picture box his descendant had installed. He still didn't understand most of whatever was on there, but it was fun watching that one show about the downfall of the Janissaries or whatever they were calling themselves nowadays.
Five minutes later, a strange feeling came over him. "Wait a second, am I forgetting something? Oh yeah, the seasonings! Ha! Can't do meat magic without seasonings, silly me. Let's see now, parsley, peppercorns, grains of paradise… wait."
The massive pot began to rumble.
"Uh oh."
What happened next was a forty-seven hour cavalcade of disaster as hideous creatures made of rotting meat threw themselves into traffic, clogged up storm drains, and utterly ruined a project to turn a nearby lake into a combination bounce house/dessert. Rotten meat and jello combined into a hideous blockage in the Wastewater Reclamation System, requiring the plant to be taken offline and deep-cleaned for hours on end. Every hand available had to deal with the chaos, only for them to then run themselves ragged all over again as Drifter convinced them it still needed to be done. At the end of it all, Jumba and Janus stumbled exhaustedly into their lab once again.
"Excuse me?" Alan asked, interrupting the duo's conversation on 'temporal repolarization'. "I was asked to examine some data you have on file here, something about foreign polities? Perhaps the data structure is simply unusual, but I can't seem to find anything of the sort."
"Oh, you are meaning old Federation news-files? I am deleting those months ago to free up computer space. Twenty terabytes of data, and yet you are having so many different recipes for deep-dish pizza."
Jumba contemplated Alan for a moment, then leaned over to Janus.
"Are humans supposed to be turning that shade of chartreuse?"
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Decrypt Galfed Computers has been removed from your action list.
Malifishmirtz's meatlings ran amok in the city, causing untold amounts of chaos! All Stewardship actions next turn take a -20 penalty. Quests are not affected.
Experiment 102-E: Drifter is a squat, gray humanoid with two heads, one of which is always looking behind it. Drifter forces victims into intense bouts of deja vu through manipulation of personal tachyon flux, leading to mass chaos as individuals repeat actions over and over again in confusion. Hero units that failed their actions this turn MUST take those actions again on the next as 102-E grows used to his power. If an action is for any reason not available, that hero loses their action.
- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Okay, so Given that decrypt is removed and Investigate the theft is almost certain to be blocked, the only units forced to repeat are Wile-e which sure fine, and Gomez which is what we wanted to do anyway. So 102-E is actually fine, because the bad actions died.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Except those units still lose their turn.
Well that's... unfortunate.
I was looking forward to seeing what stewardship options unique to Mirage we'd see, but with the increased dice checks it may be unlikely that we'll complete them.
- Location
- The City of Tears, Hallownest
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Better than being locked into impossible to complete national actions
Well all in all not the worst possible results. Not having the option to check what the political situation is up in space sucks but we did get a nat 1 on that so also fair.
-20 for Stewardship is also bad but as long as we remember it can take care of it in our calcs it can be worked with.
And hey at least Jumba had fun making another affront against God and causing massive chaos, good for him.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
How so? What's the difference between them doing something pointless rather than doing nothing at all?
If the actions were still available next turn (the hunt for the DoI and the Galfed Computers) we would risk another Critical Fail on those and more negatives.
While Alan and Monogram just losing their turn only harms us in opportunity cost and nothing tangible.
- Location
- Germany
...Okay, now *that* is a failure worth being called that.
So, we definitely lost the option to Decrypt GalFed Computers and maybe the one to Investigate DoI theft as well (actually hoping that NOWCA gets blocked by the feds next turn, which would preempt any possible fails there). On top of that, *all* our Stew actions next turn will be getting a hefty malus next turn, which makes any company gobbling very difficult to pull off.
Anyone got a list of our current Stew options with their DCs, so that we can start planning which low ones would give us the most benefits?
Silver Lining? Alan failing his Decryption action *Hard* did not result in a Masquerade breach like we feared for a bit, which is good considering the fact that we´ve been under fire by catastrophes of varying severity since the Auction in NY - *one year ago in game time*, btw?
Speaking of Masquerade breaches, @Made in Heaven :
What´s DEIs official stance on Grunkle Malf? After all, he is a friggin ghost, so pretty obviously magical.
Looking at the July/August list, this is what we have.
??? Mark Beaks Litigation
??? Hostile Takeover - Xanatos Enterprises
425 Hostile Takeover - Glomgold Enterprises
325 Hostile Takeover - DrakkTech
310 Hostile Takeover - Olympia
300 Hostile Takeover - Khan Industries
300 Hostile Takeover - Cloverleaf
270 Hostile Takeover - Funtelligence
260 Stop Paying Taxes
200 Hostile Takeover - Bakaemono Corporation
200 Hostile Takeover - Gen-U-Tech
200 Hostile Takeover - Sycorax
160 New Social Media Platform
130 Diecast Robotics
125 Revamp Bueno Nacho
120 Large Herbivore Exhibits
120 DoofOS - DaedalOS compatibility
120 Clear the name of Bonkers Bobcat
100 Comedize Supply Line
100 Solidify Hero Structure
95 Purchase Hopper Food Group
90 Establish a Bakaemono Supply Chain
80 Purchase Wyndcomm Enterprises
80 Sponsor SPLIT/SECOND
70 Smarty Mart Collaboration
70 Construct Doppleganger Body
45 Recycling Program Improvement
I'm sure "Damage Control will be on of them now though lol.
On the other hand, we luckily have low ones, so, maaayve can even out the malus and get them done.
- Location
- Germany
...I woulda preferred if you swapped the list around (lowest to highest) for better legibility, but still thanks.
Who of our resident odds crunchers would be willing to pin down the maximum-DC action we could *Reliably* take here? Bear in mind that next turn the DC effectively will be higher by 20 points?
Thanks in advance.
Mirage rolls 23 with a +2 modifier to corporate Stewardship.
Best available stewardship after loyalty is 29 for Janus Lee, 26 for Alan (46 for programming, 51 for security programming) and 26 for Roddy (41 for construction related stuff).
Mirage + Janus are going to be +52/54, depending on whether the corporate bonus applies, so with the increased DCs the coinflip line for them is between Bakemono Supply Chain and Wyndcomm/SPLIT SECOND.
Mirage + Roddy in construction roll +64/66, but with the lowest building check being herbivore exhibits (DC 140 next turn), chances of success there are roughly at 25%.
Meanwhile, Mirage + Alan in programming roll +69/71, with the lowest relevant pick being DaedalOS to DoofOS compatibility with chances of success at roughly 30%.
Safest picks would probably be the Smarty Mart collaboration (roughly 65% chances of success with Janus) and the SPLIT/SECOND sponsorship (slightly better than even odds of success with our top men).
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I don't suppose there is a bounty on Jumba is there? Some reward for turning him in?
- Location
- United Kigdom
Well, that wasn't great and it definitely clarifies that a nat1 Personal can, in fact, have an effect on us as a whole.
Still, I guess Jumba deleting the info isn't the worst possible result
Still, I guess Jumba deleting the info isn't the worst possible result
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Unfortunately, we would implicate ourselves in his escape.
Janna or Kitsune might be able to figure out a way to get away with it. Maybe.