I'll do a better breakdown later but I love the personal action changes. So helpful.

And for the love of God put Kermit on the wrestling collaboration with Olympia! It's perfect for him.
 
I'm not confirming anything, but I'm giving you 200xp for a very quality analysis. Remind me when the next turn starts.
Requested reminder.

Just a Dream: Agent Russ has +10 to all rolls regarding the Mindscape, the collective term for the human mind, the collective unconsciousness, and all the odd vistas in between. Following an experience with a man unironically calling himself Moonwind, the backdoor hidden in his understanding of mind fortification has been removed.)

Non-Practicing Practitioner: Russhas a breadth of knowledge about the occult but also, ultimately, basically no experience using it. He cannot take any Occult actions that require her to cast a spell or otherwise manipulate magic himself.
Regarding Russ's character sheet:
The first segment either has a a parenthesis too many or one too few.
The second seems to have a wrong pronoun, possibly due to being copied and adapted.

There also isn't anymore additional, hidden traits to be discovered with higher loyalty or other methods, but that seems just as likely to be an intentional change.
[ ] Investigate the Murderous Toon
DC ???

Our initial investigations into the death of Alonso Hawk suggest that the murder actually was committed by a toon, even if Bonkers Bobcat was innocent of this particular crime. The thought of a murderous toon other than Negaduck existing is concerning to many, but the lack of information we have to work with would make further investigation very difficult.
Shouldn't we know now who the murderous toon is, making that action superfluous? Unless Russ forgot about that as a consequence of what happened to him. Or he didn't tell us for some reason.

Also, I remember a previous statement that all of Negaduck's collaboratours, the other fearsome five, had a body count. Yet here and in Russ's previous thoughts, Negaduck was the only 'Murderous Toon'.
Did I misremember or is there something else I missed?
 
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One thing I could change from my plan as it currently stands right now is have Kermit do the wrestling Collab, have Monogram do Split Second or ODI, and have Cruella do a personal action instead of diplo, so we are still spending a diplo action so Russ can do his nemesis action.
 
--[] [Intrigue] Seed corporate sleeper agents: Sycorax (Mezmerella)
--[] [Intrigue] Seed corporate sleeper agents: Cloverleaf (Tobe)
This is the only thing I'm immediately against. Like, sure, we can potentially influence our rivals and whatever, but while Sycorax makes some sense given San Fransokyo is heating up, Cloverleaf does not.

Or personally, I'm not really up for losing access to Mez and Tobe for an indefinite amount of time at the moment. Mostly Tobe, but Mez has been building herself hype lately, and it would be weird imo for her to suddenly disappear from active service for a few turns.
 
We should put Mez in charge of the black ops team while Technor knocks out his upgrades. I feel like a decent martial increase for him would help if we decide to swap him into the lead position later.
 
This is the only thing I'm immediately against. Like, sure, we can potentially influence our rivals and whatever, but while Sycorax makes some sense given San Fransokyo is heating up, Cloverleaf does not.

Or personally, I'm not really up for losing access to Mez and Tobe for an indefinite amount of time at the moment. Mostly Tobe, but Mez has been building herself hype lately, and it would be weird imo for her to suddenly disappear from active service for a few turns.
I will note we don't actually HAVE to put the hero unit in the network for an extended period. It reduces our chance of positive random events, but...I'd say it's a fair trade.

Shouldn't we know now who the murderous toon is, making that action superfluous? Unless Russ forgot about that as a consequence of what happened to him. Or he didn't tell us for some reason.

Also, I remember a previous statement that all of Negaduck's collaboratours, the other fearsome five, had a body count. Yet here and in Russ's previous thoughts, Negaduck was the only 'Murderous Toon'.
Did I misremember or is there something else I missed?
1. Russ didn't actually learn who the Murderous Toon WAS when he went in the elevator, just that the murderer was a Toon at all, a thought quite harrowing to him because....
2. Russ is, at least a little, in denial about the ability of Toons to even BE murderous. Russ is, at heart, a being of nostalgia, of the "Good Old Days", and, to him, Toons are, like, a living symbol of the innocence that both he and his country have lost, the one thing he holds hope in. Negaduck, he can rationalize as being a result of Mirror Universe weirdness. That's why the revelation of the murderer being a Toon got him stuck in the Twilight for so long: It cracks the one pillar that keeps his eroding idealism stable.

@Made in Heaven also, shouldn't we have Olivia again?
 
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Alright.

Martial is going to black ops this turn. Pretty sure.

I'd give it to Mez, Juniper, Gomez so Technor can knock out his upgrades.

For diplomacy I'd say the hero wrestling collab with Kermit and the dress code with Cruella.

Stewardship has one locked for the Zootopia thing, and the other for either the retreat or the dinosaur exhibit. The Glomgold collab is explicitly on a time limit so we do need to get on with the dinosaur stuff. I'd be ok delaying the retreat to next turn.

Intrigue... I'd use one to infiltrate another hotspot. I'd drop the other action to help Russ on his nemesis action.

Learning needs to do the terraforming tech for Zootopia and Jumba should do the dinosaur one.

Occult has a couple good options. But I would go with hiring magical people and fixing the avatar.

We should definitely do the corporate thing. Another extra action we could take each turn, even more if we pay extra? I don't see a downside.

I think we should chat with Mirage and Russ. We never talked to Mirage after her turn and she has secrets she might not want the government to know and our official government spy just came back. And Russ needs to be caught up on what happened while he was gone.
 
[ ] Research Insect Control
DC 140

Outcome: Insect control technology unlocked, Lizzy's martial improves by +5, Liv Amara takes an interest
You know, considering how much we send her on quests with Janna, i'm surprised we haven't done this already.
Not saying we should do this now, no, we have way to much stuff to do. But i thought it might be worth to point it out.
 
Alright.

Martial is going to black ops this turn. Pretty sure.

I'd give it to Mez, Juniper, Gomez so Technor can knock out his upgrades.

For diplomacy I'd say the hero wrestling collab with Kermit and the dress code with Cruella.

Stewardship has one locked for the Zootopia thing, and the other for either the retreat or the dinosaur exhibit. The Glomgold collab is explicitly on a time limit so we do need to get on with the dinosaur stuff. I'd be ok delaying the retreat to next turn.

Intrigue... I'd use one to infiltrate another hotspot. I'd drop the other action to help Russ on his nemesis action.

Learning needs to do the terraforming tech for Zootopia and Jumba should do the dinosaur one.

Occult has a couple good options. But I would go with hiring magical people and fixing the avatar.

We should definitely do the corporate thing. Another extra action we could take each turn, even more if we pay extra? I don't see a downside.

I think we should chat with Mirage and Russ. We never talked to Mirage after her turn and she has secrets she might not want the government to know and our official government spy just came back. And Russ needs to be caught up on what happened while he was gone.
I agree overall, but I think we can probably delay the exhibits, so long as we do the Learning action. SOMETHING dinosaur related needs to happen. Plus, I do want to strike while the iron is hot on AI. And, as for the chat, I actually prefer Ludivine. I think Doof may get a bit to think about after the...Incident.

Also, weird things seem to be happening with Kitsune. Even if she isn't on the council maybe we should chat with her soon as well, before she goes full Benjamin Button.
I think that's pretty clearly Doof misunderstanding how shapeshifting works.
 
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I agree overall, but I think we can probably delay the exhibits, so long as we do the Learning action. SOMETHING dinosaur related needs to happen. Plus, I do want to strike while the iron is hot on AI. And, as for the chat, I actually prefer Ludivine. I think Doof may get a bit to think about after the...Incident.
Nothing wrong with chatting with multiple people in one turn though!
 
--[] [Intrigue] Seed corporate sleeper agents: Sycorax (Mezmerella)
--[] [Intrigue] Seed corporate sleeper agents: Cloverleaf (Tobe)
I do not want to do 2 Seeding Corperate Sleeper Agent Actions. I'd probably do Sycorax and have tobe investigate the cult, Celebration, or Zootopia.

Also I am all for having Monogram on ODI and Kermit set up a wrestling federation, it seems funny and being able to finally do the ODI I feel is just an important thing to have accomplished. Mass Media is an industry we are interested me, +4 Funds right before the pay out turn is really good, and we get something we should have done months ago finished. The only reason I can see us not doing this is if we want to wait til Gomez is avaliable for a 100% success chance.

I also am happy that Drossel is a quest, might be fun to save it for when Wendy comes back.
 
To improve your standing in a given industry, you must take an action with that [Industry] increasing your standing among its rewards. You must complete these actions a number of times equal to half of your current rank, rounded up. Once you do so, you tier up to the next rank. For example, if your genetics is tier 3, you must take 3 actions that increase [Genetics] standing and then rank up to tier 4.
Isn't half of our current rank (3), rounded up, 2? Not 3?
[ ] Look through ACME's records

AMCE as a corporation has records going back even longer than you've existed, starting as a minor joke company and blossoming into the primary supplier of Toon goods before the murder of Marvin Acme and the dark days of Mr. Chairman. Take a look through that storied history and see what ELSE you can find.
Wasn't this supposed to be updated to cover all our subsidiaries? Also, shouldn't Coyote have a Loyalty bonus from our talk? Also-also, shouldn't Ludivine have a loyalty bonus as well, from us helping her?
 
I hesitate to ask, but I'm going to anyway. Is there a reason Agent Russ doesn't have any personal actions?
 
"I'll need to completely renovate my office. It requires gravitas."

"Approved."

"...really?" She asks after a moment.

"How could I say no to that flair?"

"Hrm. Perhaps you're not totally hopeless."

"What?"

"Oh, nothing."

"No, I'm pretty sure you said I was hopeless."

"Don't worry, I say that to everyone darling. Ahahahaha!"
hahah, certainly a character.
 
This is @Nystical's plan adapted to prioritize the retreat (which will give us personals from the black ops heroes if we do it this turn) while putting civilian AI off a turn.

[] Plan: Retreating Search

-[] National Actions:

--[] [Martial] Form a black ops group (Technor, Juniper, Gomez)

--[] [Diplomacy] Guard against hats: Mandate Company Dress Codes (Cruella)
--[] [Diplomacy] Establish the Titans Wrestling Federation (Kermit the Frog)

--[] [Stewardship] Restore Zootopia Climate Systems (Roddy)
--[] [Stewardship] Host a company retreat (Mr. Moseby)

--[] [Intrigue] Seed corporate sleeper agents: Sycorax (Mezmerella)
--[] [Intrigue] Nemesis Action: Reclaim the Odd Object (Agent Russ)

--[] [Learning] Greco-Roman Terraforming (Lizzy)
--[] [Learning] Research Large Carnivore Domestication (Jumba)

--[] [Occult] Repair the Avatar of Felldrake (Janna)
--[] [Occult] Search for Magical Individuals (Kitsune)

--[] [Monogram] ???
--[] [Corporate Action] Establish a Corporate Court (Funds)

-[] Personal Actions:
--[] Doof:
---[] Spend Time With Norm
---[] Throw an Action in the Trash
----[] Research Flubber Weather Modification
----[] Research Flubber Antigravity
----[] Research Flubber Power
---[] Chat with the Bossman (Russ)
---[] Chat with the Bossman (Ludivine)

--[] Council
---[] [Coyote] (Look through ACME's records)
---[] [Goofy] (Look into Pete)
---[] [Janus] (Finish incubating Tech E. Coyote)
---[] [Mirage] (Reinforce Kronos Corp contacts)
---[] [Ludivine] (Repair the Martian Robot)
---[] [Malifishmirtz] (Watch El Matador de Amor)

--[] Activate Inator
--[] Genghis Khan (Study history)
--[] Norm (Spend Time With Father)
--[] Dennis (Train with Maui Mallard)
--[] Marco (Train with Macbeth)
--[] Tom (Search for Star)
--[] Max (Hang out with Agent Russ)
--[] Dr. Jumba Jookiba (Grow one of the mutants, undetermined)
--[] Wasabi (Obsessively Check San Fransokyo Cape News)
 
[] Plan: Retreating Search
My one bits of advice is put Monogram on retreat and do another Stewardship (Preferebly Civvie AI). He by default has an 81% Chance, goes to 91% with XP. Doesn't remove the crit fail but its high enough that I feel comfortable using him. Getting Civvie AI online faster means more turns to harvest its benefits and beating Trevor to the punch. ODI is good but not an immediate thing (And Technor+Gomez+Juniper will likely remove the 4% Crit Fail chance) while Split Second we should wait til we do Exotic Vehicles.
 
My one bits of advice is put Monogram on retreat and do another Stewardship (Preferebly Civvie AI). He by default has an 81% Chance, goes to 91% with XP. Doesn't remove the crit fail but its high enough that I feel comfortable using him. Getting Civvie AI online faster means more turns to harvest its benefits and beating Trevor to the punch. ODI is good but not an immediate thing (And Technor+Gomez+Juniper will likely remove the 4% Crit Fail chance) while Split Second we should wait til we do Exotic Vehicles.
Trevor is not in the mental state to be contesting us on AI of all things. Besides, we are going to be basically uncontested in the field of AI regarding Civie AI.

No one cares about it. There is so much more profit to be made by selling AI.
 
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