Hm...His trait didn't trigger.
DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
- Start date
- Crossover
Argidoll
And hast thou slain the Jabberwocky?
- Location
- Dreamland
He rolled high enough it didn't need to be rerolled.
- Pronouns
- he/him
it could be usefull again toffe in the futur
- Location
- United Kigdom
Well, that was certainly a blast; I really liked the talk between Janna and Kitsune at the end
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Is that a trait? Because we didn't roll in the CF range and the difference is bare.
Hm. Nega-toonforce.
VicSage
Not Crazy
- Location
- Czechoslovakia
Your attitude is totally grody, Dewey. Your mom is a pretty fly gal (Get it? Because she's a Duck.) who can keep up with the times, she even has a Tamagotchi!
- Location
- USA
That was great. Really funny and chaotic.
Looks like we have the location for the next company retreat.
Not that many rewards since the place was already done by Donald's group and we missed a fair amount of rolls.
But some stat increases and some great character stuff is very nice.
And the chance of help from a powerful alien that can track dimensional travel is a VERY interesting reward. Lots of potential there.
Sad kitsune is out of the quest group. But she is now actually friends with Janna so that's good.
Should someone else take her spot in future quests or just stick with Kitsune? Someone else might be able to join the few if given a chance.
And poor Marco seems to take a beating every event, doesn't he?
Poor guy.
Looks like we have the location for the next company retreat.
Not that many rewards since the place was already done by Donald's group and we missed a fair amount of rolls.
But some stat increases and some great character stuff is very nice.
And the chance of help from a powerful alien that can track dimensional travel is a VERY interesting reward. Lots of potential there.
Sad kitsune is out of the quest group. But she is now actually friends with Janna so that's good.
Should someone else take her spot in future quests or just stick with Kitsune? Someone else might be able to join the few if given a chance.
And poor Marco seems to take a beating every event, doesn't he?
Poor guy.
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
I'm really happy at the ability to track dimensional scissor uses, bit concerning since it could be used against us but the ODI works differently if I'm remembering correctly, but tracking Negaduck and Toffee and anyone from Star Vs using them is a godsend for the future, it might even provide some quick advanced warning! Even if that advanced warning is "Negaduck's crew is here now" it's still better than our first warning being mass civilian casualties.
The ODI is different mostly because it makes a portal in a singular location, meaning that it will just say "DEI is opening a Portal'". If we ever do say, Esoteric Transportation its very different, that he might be able to track.
God I love this quest.
The Ducks, Dennis, Lizzy, Feldrake and Marco all were just really, really funny. The ending while bittersweet was still pretty interesting
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- Location
- Ohio
That was an awesome chapter. Glad we managed to more or less get in everyone's good books by the end of things.
Tbh, Malf be damned, we should probably actually hire someone to assist in the occult department, because it's actually starting to cut into other people's time to do things.
Like, I'm leaning Celena, but soon we should either do that or the general occult action
- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm fairly certain the goose stick is older than the butterfly stick Marco.
Emotions run a bit high at Evil Incorporated.
Impressive name for a +5. Probably more nuanced than that but I find it funny.
Wait...
She got double angry... Well that's Hortense and Quackmore's kid for ya.
Lizzy realizing her toxic ex-nemisis wasn't even good in his niche.
- Location
- Hyperborea
I have an image for this. Putting it in a spoiler to spare people the mental suffering.
I didn't see anyone comment on this, so I decided to. I thought it was neat that Kitsune got upset at the possibility that Amur was in danger. I'm not surprised that they got more attached since we threw Amur at Twelfth Night simply because why not. We haven't seen him for since "Crisis: Twelfth Night- Gloria" and it's nice to see him again.
A Broken Clock
A Broken Clock
Hell was other people. And the worst part of working for the Committee on Anomalous Internal Affairs was the other departments. At least, it was to Mr. Block. Constantly fighting for funding, withholding crucial information until Uncle Sam ordered them to stop, and always telling him what to do as if they had any authority over what he did. Currently, it was Paranormal being the most obtuse. Mr. Block had been waiting for the past 3 days for them to release one of their agents' reports. It wasn't even anything related to the paranormal, just DEI's employee ledger.He ripped open another bag of pistachios with a sigh. Time travel has always been one of the less appreciated cover-ups by the government, even in his time. It was how he was able to get Dakota and Cavendish sent on a pointless, self serving assignment in the first place. It didn't help that the "evidence" he had received was, frankly, some of the least reliable the CAIA had. A hobo ranting about how the mind control hats in Florida are run by a rogue AI is one thing, hell it was fairly strongly supported in the FBI. But the moment he brought up time travel most of the other departments wrote him off as being just another doomsday preacher.
He knew better. Time travel tended to have a negative effect on people's mental health, especially if they were not prepared for it. Though from the sound of it Michael Yagoobian was never the most mentally stable. In between mad rantings about aunts and uncles it painted a picture of the single most nasty Grandfather Paradox Mr. Block has ever seen. Apparently, 'Goob' was roommates at an orphanage with a kid named Lewis. This Lewis kid was an inventor who kept him up all night with his machine, causing him to mess up an important little league game. This apparently ruined the morons' life, setting off on this insane vendetta that lasted 30 years! Eventually he stole two of Lewis' inventions to get revenge..
The first was InventCo's signature Helping Hat; the second a time machine. The manchild proceeded to describe the clearly defective prototype hat as his "Best Friend". Makes sense, the dimbulb's social skills would make Dakota and Cavendish look like Savannah and Brick. They decided to work together to ruin the life of this kid for "ruining theirs". They went back in time to when Lewis was supposed to get adopted to prevent it, and may have KILLED THE BRAT! Sure, "THAT BOY '' clearly wasn't all too smart if he left an Evil AI and a Time Machine in a place where a pathetic person like the tramp he was interrogating could steal from. But no one deserves to be killed by temporal assassination.
Furthermore, this was frankly the single most infuriating thing Mr. Block had ever heard. More so than Dakota and Cavendish's repeated failures at basic assignments. More than that, bald idiot's three decade long feud. Why this… hat thing managed to prevent not just her own existence from coming into being, but her timelines ability to even time travel USING TIME TRAVEL! Goob would similarly have no need to get revenge on a dead man! And the moron wasn't lying; he tried to embellish his accomplishments several times during the interrogation, being painfully obvious every time. Issue is there was nothing proving this man wasn't simply an insane, traumatized man. Certainly easier to believe than him being a man 30 years older than his birth certificate said.
So he had taken it upon himself to get the proof. He had experienced enough interrogations of temporal felons to pick out the important details. And after that it was a mixture of acquiring evidence to collaborate his claims; a couple of birth certificates and newspaper clippings to figure out yep; Lewis was gone and InventCo began pumping out helping hats shortly after.
Despite this he lacked any actual hard evidence on Doris' crimes. He tried to get a DNA test or fingerprinting, but the younger Goob disappeared shortly after Lewis; so that was a dead end. While the neural networking of the helping hats was extremely advanced, the patents had been filed years ago; before he had even entered this timeline. Any attempts to send agents to Florida were blocked as the FBI was still trying to figure out which department even should be heading the investigation…
"It's always the other departments…" Mr Block muttered, Extraterrestrial refused to share anything about Hawaii, Paranormal would act all high and mighty while pretending he hadn't known magic existed before he bumbled into their offices (Wizards are always some of the most annoying meddlers in the timeline, how couldn't he know they existed!), and Metahuman Affairs had been running Uncle Sam ragged preparing for Negaduck's attack. While he understands the danger, he wished that his paradoxes were received with any similar amounts of seriousness.
And, if he was being honest here, it was also his department. His top agents were jokes, he got the bare minimum of funding, and it felt like he couldn't do anything without being backtalked. Most people in this contradictory reality seemed to have even more contradictory views on how time travel should function. Worst of all were the associates he had to liaison with in order to talk to anyone with a functioning brain. But at least they answered his emails. With the other departments competing for the director's attention, it took forever to get an appointment penciled in, and he had to wait another month and a half to get said appointment. Now the date was imminent and Paranormal was sticking their head in the mud trying to DENY HIM THE LAST BIT OF EVIDENCE HE NEEDED!
After an excruciating 3 hours of going over his notes and 4 more bags of pistachios someone finally managed to get him the files he requested. To his annoyance a lot of it was blacked out by ink, Mostly things related to Halloween or people he figured were secretly mages or aliens. Whatever. He just needed four names.. He quickly packed up his things and started heading to the director's office.
That went… a lot better than expected. The director, while not so much understanding, knew better than to let a lead like this go unnoticed. If this was what snarled it all up to begin with, then it was incredibly crucial to national security to protect what we had left, and one wrong move by this hat could cause another cascade.
Now he didn't get the 8-figure investigation he wanted, but the director told him that once the Negaduck situation resolved itself a reevaluation of the budget was in order, and potentially a look into 'greater cooperation initiatives' as well. No, what he got was something he himself hadn't even known he wanted.
Uncle Sam was reallocating more of the Imagination Institute, an organization he hadn't even known existed. Nothing that can actually time travel, he is pretty sure at the current state doing so was practically impossible. But there was an odd duck on the payroll that seemed convinced they could find a way to peer into alternate timelines and the timestream itself. Mr. Block had some theories of course, but he was the Director of the Time Bureau, not Professor Time. They needed to make sure that trying to detangle a paradox of this caliber wouldn't cause any severe knock on effects.
Finally he was getting the chance to launch an investigation his way. No more needing to deal with idiots like Riddle or Dicker nabbing resources. No more having to rely on people who don't understand time travel. He was gonna get the lab guys to do a bunch of research, take their notes, and use them to train a new group of agents. Agents that will be better than the bottom of the barrel scraps he has now..
He also got a very, very nice secondary prize. The Director gave him the go ahead to reach out to some interesting parties in Danville. While he doubts Riddle will let him access Russ, it couldn't hurt to try. Monogram was firmly off the table, man was from his home timeline and trying to reach out to him might erase him from existence. No, the big contact he was happy to receive was those strange men that managed to do the impossible and make Dakota and Cavendish productive. A piece separate from the rest of the CAIA, that he could rely on sending him information and doing jobs the other departments might not want done.
The Vagabond Ninja's were soon gonna be working for him; and there was nothing those bureaucrats could do to stop him.
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- Location
- USA
That title is so good.
Excellent side story. Hopefully it becomes canon.
Excellent side story. Hopefully it becomes canon.
I had an idea about a potential combo of personal actions.
First off, have Doof both study basic magic and do a chat with Malf, as I've suggested previously. In the same turn, have Dennis ask Malf about finding Donald with magic.
Sandwich makers are, apparently, one of the few groups of people Malf doesn't mind, and attempting to scry on Donald could be a good demonstration of whatever magical principles Malf tries to teach Doof about.
First off, have Doof both study basic magic and do a chat with Malf, as I've suggested previously. In the same turn, have Dennis ask Malf about finding Donald with magic.
Sandwich makers are, apparently, one of the few groups of people Malf doesn't mind, and attempting to scry on Donald could be a good demonstration of whatever magical principles Malf tries to teach Doof about.
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- Location
- USA
Trying to find Donald with magic seems completely redundant now.
Feldrake will let us know immediately when his group is hitting a magic spot.
It might help with the other personal somehow but it feels like a stretch to me. Dennis has other things he can do.
Admittedly not many, but his search for Donald personal could be hilarious now that he's met the family.
Feldrake will let us know immediately when his group is hitting a magic spot.
It might help with the other personal somehow but it feels like a stretch to me. Dennis has other things he can do.
Admittedly not many, but his search for Donald personal could be hilarious now that he's met the family.
I suggested it less as a means of finding Donald, and more as a means of maybe giving Malf someone to interact with in a positive way.
TBH Malf big issue with his lack of socialization is that like... he is a Doofenshmirtz who had no grounding force in his life.
Malf is a jackass, Self Centered, Over-The-Top, Incompetent, and Petty. Most importantly he's a moron who doesn't realise that he has to treat people with respect in order to be liked. If Dennis asked him for help he likely would tell him to go away unless something made him decide he wanted an apprentice.
If we never try to socialize Malf on the basis that it'd probably fail anyways, then that's just guaranteeing that Malf will never undergo character development.
Right now, the few people he's willing to treat with something approaching politeness are Doof (because he's family), Vanessa (because she's family), and possibly Dennis (because he's a sandwich maker, and for some arbitrary reason he doesn't mind them). And Dennis doesn't seem to care if people are rude to him, so if it goes badly it's unlikely to have serious consequences.
thats fair, I mostly just think Dennis won't be worth it. Man is obsessed with one thing.
Which of our Hero Units would actually tolerate Malf long enough to bond with him? Or Vibe with him? Maybe the QMS?
While we still need a Janna teacher, I wouldn't mind trying to find an occult unit that can do double duty as a Malf friend and Janna Teacher.
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- Location
- USA
I'm fine having a chat with him to try and figure something out. Get his opinion on how things have been going for him, does he like being on the council, can he handle having new coworkers, and so on.
That's reasonable. Hopefully we get a breakthrough or something.
I'm less okay with trying various write ins in the hope that something clicks.
That seems very similar to the end of the Lovemuffin situation and I would much rather just deal with the fallout of him throwing a tantrum than just letting it drag on until something finally works.
I see no point in crippling ourselves in Occult, even if he flips out.
We need the specialists for nationals. Delaying forever till Malf is OK with it doesn't sit right with me. Better to try and ease the impact and hire the new people we need.
If it works and he can handle working with people, fantastic. If he can't deal with having magically literate people working with him then we need to rip that bandaid off and deal with the consequences.
And regardless, we aren't getting rid of Malf. He's family. This discussion is entirely about his roll on the council.
That's reasonable. Hopefully we get a breakthrough or something.
I'm less okay with trying various write ins in the hope that something clicks.
That seems very similar to the end of the Lovemuffin situation and I would much rather just deal with the fallout of him throwing a tantrum than just letting it drag on until something finally works.
I see no point in crippling ourselves in Occult, even if he flips out.
We need the specialists for nationals. Delaying forever till Malf is OK with it doesn't sit right with me. Better to try and ease the impact and hire the new people we need.
If it works and he can handle working with people, fantastic. If he can't deal with having magically literate people working with him then we need to rip that bandaid off and deal with the consequences.
And regardless, we aren't getting rid of Malf. He's family. This discussion is entirely about his roll on the council.