I can confirm this would not end up reducing the cost. The cost of ODI is not in creating the portal, you have the technology and just haven't built it yet. The cost comes from powering the thing, as well as obtaining resources suitable for an interdimensional expedition for weeks on end, possibly into places with no infrastructure. Incidentally, this is the same reason why activating the digitizer will incur a cost as well.
This needs to be completed three times for it to work. We don't have time for it.
I like this plan, let me give it a name for you.
Roddy doesn't seem to have a personal from this either
I'm curious about this but @Made in Heaven if we pick "This Reminds me of a Joke." Is the information we get still going to be usable?
But wouldn't gaining all the powers of hell make her a mage?
Could also backfire. Less likely if shes a proper mage first imo.
None of the options are red, so I don't think this is a risk. The worst options are orange, which tends to mean a downside and an upside. And the best reward, at 40% chance, is Blue. Meaning a significant improvement right at the time we could use one, the last blue action we succeeded at gave Kitsune +1 across the board, plus loyalty.
First, I wouldn't say very likely. We'd investigate again, and there's a chance that it's too late, yes. But on the other hand, we can still do normal prep, like we were initially considering, and that means we don't have to pick either of the other two options.
I was hoping this would give us more info about what our choices mean and it didn't.
Yep. Plus, if the new Negaduck stuff works the same as the action we just did IE more over the DC means more info, we could get quite a lot from it...The downside being, we'd have no time to prep. It would probably give us a lot of circumstance bonuses during the crisis, but, in prep, we'd still be flying blind, and would just have to take all the prep actions, just in case.
Yes, that's implied. It was a bare failure, after all. Unplanned would be the default, and we're getting the choice to get the info in exchange for being screwed over in other ways.
I mean if the malus of picking Unplanned is that we get no info it would be logical that not picking it gives info, after all if it wasn't the case what even is the point of Unplanned as a malus since I don't think the QM would add a bait "this happens either way" option to the malus to grab
And, because it's Negaduck, we don't just get unplanned, as we would on a normal bare failure, we also get Russ getting his face kicked in somehow. Frankly, I have very little idea what the idea is here.
OK, dude, don't act like you have some sorta special insight into the QMs we don't, you're sounding a bit condescing. That said, I get your point, and lowering the DC means more info when we do it next turn, which, even if it can't help our prep, WOULD probably give us some juicy circumstance bonuses...Hm...
I think the implication was that, normally, we would just get the Unplanned. But, since we our time is VERY limited, the QMs are giving us the option to opt out, at...Some unclear cost.
Thank you. I'm sorry for the acustation, just a bit irritating is all. I get your point, and we can totally do prep and still do the investigation, in hopes that whatever treasure trove we get will be useful enough to at least grant us some useful bonuses during the Crisis itself...But it would mean having to devote the entirety of next turn to prep that may end up wasted...Normally, i'd go off the color coding and go Dream Queen, but...Yellow in this game could also mean...HIM, and we don't want to get anywhere close to HIM, so...Hm.
