Defeating Doom and Tofee are both goals we've put some amount of work into, we just haven't been able to make much progress on them on account of AP hell, dozens of new fires to put out each turn, and our refusal to just get the damn ODI done already.
I'd like to investigate the murderous toon and secure a fair trial for Bonkers. Preferably soon. I'm not as worried as I was before about The Devil giving him bad advice, but I don't think he's prepared for a very unfair trial.
I'd also like to be proactive and secure a Tier 1 Infiltration into NMIEZ soon, giving us time to upgrade it to 3 before the Find Star DC goes down too much.
The way Global Actions work, the DC lowers and lowers until the first turn someone passes it. Unfortunately, even with the Commodore, Toffee matches or exceeds our Intrigue bonuses.
MrHobbit said:
Us, using the Commodore: 18+17+55=90
Toffee: 50+37+22(this could be a trait or a hero)=89/111
What this means is that unless we interfere with Toffee, we're going to be
sharing Star at the finish line, since any DC we can beat, he can beat. That can't be good.
Interference DCs are high, but lower by 25 per Tier of Infiltration. If we want to be capable of tripping Toffee at the finish line, we want that DC as low as possible. Won't hurt to get his information on Star, Mewni, and other dimensions as well.
Olivia is the best choice for this. Toffee is a very dangerous person, we really don't want him knowing we're interested in Star until we trip him. She's got a trait that says she can't be traced back to us.
Mr. Valentine: Olivia was able to hide her villainous identity from the greatest detective in the world, aka her husband, for two decades straight. When suffering a critical failure, Olivia never reveals your involvement in the failed scheme; though this does not prevent the action from going horribly wrong in other ways.
Matriarch: Olivia will appreciate actions that give her family reason to pursue her. Assigning Olivia to a criminal action makes it likely that the Commodore or other members of the Dickens will appear as a temporary nemesis encounter.
@Arathnorn, does 'criminal activity' cover corporate espionage? There's an argument to be had that we should put Olivia on Commit Supervillainy so we have a chance to recruit the Commodore, so before I go all in on arguing that it's better to use her on Toffee than on trying to recruit him, I'd like confirmation that they are, in fact, mutually exclusive. Maybe we can get the best of both worlds.
Olivia is a +69 vs Infiltration DC of 125, which means a 56% CoS without modifiers, 94% Bare Failure or higher with Personal Attention and xp.
