Wait, you're saying Gomez is our resident occult expert?
We're doomed. Hoping that trait gets abated eventually. In the meantime, quests aren't subject to that and we have a means of getting rid of "Non-practicing practitioner:Gomez gaining Occult does nothing, though?
*Shrugs* Check for yourself. He has the second biggest bonus on Nationals, bigger than Kitsune's and Malf's, and none of the various problematic traits of Janna, Kitsune, and Malf.Wait, you're saying Gomez is our resident occult expert?
Yes, quests aren't subject to that. Which is why we send Janna on quests as often as possible. And why we need Occult experts who are actually available to do our two Nationals per turn.
Since his whole thing is doing Occult with Learning, he'd likely just gain equivalent points in Learning.
I don't think there's much narrative synergy there. The Marcnificent Few are a bunch of late-teenagers and 20-somethings who tend to be rebellious sorts, Gomez is a 50-something scientist who is instinctively deferential to authority, I don't think there's much common ground there. At least with Technor and the rest, he has a similar level of evil eccentricity and pairing someone who wants to be ordered around by a domineering supervillain with a team led by Technor fits pretty well. Plus, being on the Black Ops team would, itself, probably give Gomez a fair buff. Technor's Learning is way more than his, so, if the Ball retains Gomez's trait, we'd be getting half of 30 or so instead of half of 24. I don't like Gomez on Black Ops either, but I think it works better then our other options in all likelihood.
A large part of the Marcnificent aren't doing the Feldrake World Tour either, because Marco costs money and Tom just isn't interested. It's not a "Marcnificent few" questline, it's a Janna-and-Dennis questline.
And if we were talking about pairing Technor and Gomez in any other context than a Black Ops assault squad meant for super-combat, I'd be all for it.
Or have Von Drake tutor him next turn, or pair him up with any Learning expert other than the one who's going to be the head of a specialized Martial taskforce. In fact, how about just letting him do his Personal and seeing what happens? If he naturally gravitates towards Technor, case closed.
Gomez is a very solid candidate for heroballing with a villain who wants minions to boss around. It's just that Black Ops specifically isn't a good fit for him.
I mean yeah, I just said High Learning Units not just Black Ops. I figured it was better to just describe Gomez's long term then to give a definitive solution to it, even if i would like him on Black Ops, since we've done this song and dance a lot already.
I absolutely agree and would be delighted to pair him up with any of our villains (or egotistical geniuses in general) who aren't going to be in Black Ops. In fact, it's why I'm campaigning for letting him take his Toady Up personal next turn with the Retreat bonus and having him choose who to suck up to.
Absolutely. I keep thinking of trying to directly attach him to Doof, because they have good synergy, but I'm not sure if our King is even allowed to be in a Heroball.
Yup, that is pretry tricky. But if the problem is that we can't put Gomez in a Learning Heroball until a Martial Heroball is formed, putting him on the Martial Heroball so we can gain access to a Learning ball but lose access to Gomez, is not a real solution.
No. Power struggles between would-be leaders resulted in LOVEMUFFIN having a Learning score on par with the average college graduate, despite the members being individually far more competent than that.
We had Von Drake tutor him before. It buffed his score by two, and, thus, his Occult by one, but I feel like it's probably gonna have diminishing returns if we try again.
I don't think that's how this works. The whole problem is that both Technor and Mez are total control freaks, so putting them on the same team is a recipe for disaster. This is exactly what fucked over LOVEMUFFIN: 17 leaders and no one who wants to follow orders results in them constantly getting each other's way and reducing an individual Learning score on par with Doof's own to a collective less-then-15.
Yeah. To be fair, Mez is pretty obscure, it's hard to know much about her personality ahead of time.The other options we currently have are: Momakase, Naughty Kitty, Motor Ed, Sirque, Baron Von Steamer, and Splatter Phoenix.
Honestly that is a weird case since the portal tech she had in her episode was the one from Project Silent Sparrow that she was able to get because Krei was incompetent and she was able to download the files of Krei personal computer while he was in the room without him noticing (speaks well in favor of her but mostly speaks badly of Krei).
I guess we could, but we have no clue how Mez and Juniper would mesh.
Do you think devoting a ton of time and energy into a research path someone else already has developed will lead to profit? Or will people prefer to stick with Shere Khan rather than risky Doof?
I've only done a year of law school, and business law was not part of that, but I imagine it was part of his contract that he can't share company secrets with future employers, kind of like how a lawyer can't be involved with a case if they switch to the law firm representing the opposite side.
