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True, True. I am jumping for joy and over the moon for this anti-grav research.
DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
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- Crossover
- Location
- the Netherworld Dood
You are forgetting with the rest of the world also has access to magical bullshit super science bullshit and what not.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
The Ohmu are perfectly good neighbors as long as you aren't a goddamn idiot near them. Start clearcutting things, destabilizing their ecology through large scale poaching, or kill even one of them and you will have a species of implacable organic tanks moving en masse. For twenty days straight without rest. Play nice and you will never have a problem.
The Toxic Jungle is... probably necessary. As was covered in the manga it was a networked, biological terraforming engine. It was set up by a failing branch of humanity and their custodian AI after the planet was so heavily despoiled and poisoned that the only sane choice was to do a full planetary reset, using an inbuilt kill switch on the new ecology once its work was done. The AI would 'Horizon Zero Dawn' and all would be well. I don't know how bad things are over there that someone would think that this was necessary, and I don't remember if it was mentioned within the thread, but they must have been desperate.
The Toxic Jungle isn't the problem. The problem is the cancer the Jungle is providing chemo therapy for, and our making sure the treatment doesn't kill the patient.
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maybe someone set it off when trying to steal it?
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- the Netherworld Dood
Auto and the BnL wasteland probably triggered it. Considering they made the entire area completely uninhabitable.
TBF it wasn't actually us but probably the Time travel people from BnL whom screwed over the Midwest overnight.
and moreover the toxic jungle doesn't just kill humans but any non toxic jungle life forms. So all native Plant and animal life on earth's land masses will be wiped out. At least those on the American continents .
We'd be forced to migrate either under the sea or to other continents.
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
We could also migrate into space or onto floating cities, but yeah, Toxic Jungle really dangerous.
Perhaps, but right now toxic jungle is right now locked in by the BnL wasteland and the great lakes which means it can be contained/eliminated. Also in the movie, they also use fire to eliminate the spores to contain jungle.
The most difficult about the jungle are the bugs. Though depends on how driven and smart they are when provoked, we might lead/lure them to the great lakes like lemmings.
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
This is where I feel obligated to bring up the idea of giant orbital kill-sat lasers. For when you need to burn everything down there.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
Yes, but at that points its pretty much a mercykill. Its there for when no non-artificial ecology could prosper. The planet would have had to start from cyanobacteria and waterbears after ten million years of desolation.
You have a point with timetravel. It might have well been a misfired gun.
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A GIANT magnifying glass in Space should be good at burning those bugs like ants.
We might also need to check the underground for any burrowers so we won't have a surprise coming back to haunt us.
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
I mean, if you glass everything that'll probably kill the underground stuff too. That or we keep an eye on the area for a few turns and LAZOR anything that surfaces.
There is a reason why nuclear bunker are underground. Correct me if I'm wrong but I recall they can burrow and have a tunneling system not unlike ants and we don't know how deep and wide is the nest.
Plus those bugs are resilient as hell, maybe the couple surface ones and those near the surface are glassed, but the rest can block the tunnel and hibernate underground until a more favorable time and strike back when we don't pay attention on them.
Edit: we actually sort of have an answer to the tunnels now I think about it. Remember Stanley and his volcano? Let's fill the nest with liquid magma, it's fast enough that the bugs won't try to escape or block the tunnels with anything. Also it's a real method of killing ants and termites though they use liquid aluminum instead.
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FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
- Location
- Los Angeles
For want of a sandwich-inator (good)
You built this device on the hunch that at some point in the indeterminate future, you're really going to want a sandwich. This is undeniably a terrible thing and you will not allow this awful, sandwichless future to take place. So you built an inator that will teleport a sandwich to the distant, uncertain future where you could really use that sandwich. For all you know, this quantum sandwich could save the world...
Mechanically, either transforms a failure to a bare success or ups the degree of success on a roll by one degree...but only where suddenly having a sandwich could noticeably impact the outcome. So a critical failure could become a bare success, a success a crit success, etc.
For want of a sandwich-inator (bad)
As above, but Doof goofed on the temporal/spatial coordinates and so either the needed sandwich just went to someone else and you are struck by the terrible knowledge about how your awful lack of sandwich possession is about to lead to your downfall, or somehow that sandwich finds its way into your hands when you really, really needed something else.
Mechanically, transforms any thematically appropriate failure one degree worse.
You built this device on the hunch that at some point in the indeterminate future, you're really going to want a sandwich. This is undeniably a terrible thing and you will not allow this awful, sandwichless future to take place. So you built an inator that will teleport a sandwich to the distant, uncertain future where you could really use that sandwich. For all you know, this quantum sandwich could save the world...
Mechanically, either transforms a failure to a bare success or ups the degree of success on a roll by one degree...but only where suddenly having a sandwich could noticeably impact the outcome. So a critical failure could become a bare success, a success a crit success, etc.
For want of a sandwich-inator (bad)
As above, but Doof goofed on the temporal/spatial coordinates and so either the needed sandwich just went to someone else and you are struck by the terrible knowledge about how your awful lack of sandwich possession is about to lead to your downfall, or somehow that sandwich finds its way into your hands when you really, really needed something else.
Mechanically, transforms any thematically appropriate failure one degree worse.
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- Location
- Hyperborea
Is our income listed as a number anywhere or is it just a general estimate to determine how easy actions like buyouts and hostile takeovers are?
Okay, so we take the whole thing and teleport it to some other planet where it would do good instead of harm. Maybe Venus?
Problem solved.
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- Earth
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An explanation for it is given in the mechanics informational post.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Did it proc when Russ was fucking with Doom's attempt to detect toons at the Sands Gala using the 'shave and a haircut' knock?
Nah, that's the point.
Wile E. Coyote has been failing disastrously for so long that it's become actively funnier for him to unexpectedly succeed at whatever it is that he's trying to accomplish.
I've actually been seriously considering that possibility myself. Given that as far as I can determine he's not a canon character, strongly suggesting that me may actually be a canon character incognito... yeah. Plus, he's done some seemingly impossible things, like stay dry in a whale's mouth for six days.
Or there's just a huge damper on a lot of the weirdness overseas. It's not that nothing happens over there, it's just not such a big deal (e.g. there are occasional anime toons spontaneously popping up in Japan and it's not a big deal, there are occasional Saturday Morning Cartoon-style supervillains popping up for Interpol or whoever to deal with but they're dealt with, and so on).
So life outside the US may be weird and colorful compared to real life, but it's a lot more recognizably normal.
...I haven't watched the movie, but, uh... isn't the solution just to build your own floaty island, using whatever device Sky High uses to stay airborne, and then just... build... two of that device?
- Location
- the Netherworld Dood
Then you have to double all the other parts that keep it aloft and powered.
Think of it like building a car with two engines for some reason
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Think of it as being like building a passenger jet with two engines for some reason.
...Which everyone does.
There's a reason why the market for single-engine aviation is basically limited to extremely light general aviation craft that are only flown by a handful of people at a time. Because it's a basic safety standard that when you build something where if the engine goes out everyone dies, you build it with two engines.
Cars have single engines. But in a car, having the engine go out generally won't kill you, and you can pull over at the first sign of a serious engine malfunction. An aircraft- or a flying city- has no such luxury.
- Location
- Germany
You know, after rereading the lead-up to the casino heist, I am now of the opinion, that the next big name toon we want to recruit shouldn´t be Donald, but instead Pete.
Despite Doofs generally approachable demeanor, we´ll still need to do some of the shadier stuff that Ross or Monogram would be adverse to do because of their rather upstanding personality - meaning that we could use someone who is not afraid to sully their hands with (sometimes-not-so-petty) larceny... Who better for that than Disneys go-to bad guy toon for most of its illustrious career? Plus, the basis for our quests version of Pete seems to be his *Goof Troop* incarnation, which is just the right amount of petty crime and low cunning/street smarts.
Another - often understated - facet of Pete is the fact, that he is Disneys *oldest Toon still in use* (heck, he is about five years older than their mascot Mickey) and considering tDooms genocidal campaign of dipping every Toon that puts a toe outta line, Pete might be the oldest Toon still around *period* (even Betty Boop - who has got to be among the last B&W Toons still alive - is younger than him by about 5 years as well). That might not sound like much, but consider for one second the flatout *worship* Goofy gets from the surviving Toons for being the MOST FAMOUS Toon...now imagine the PR boots from us managing to get the OLDEST Toon to work for us as well.
Heck, despite being a villain/antagonist most of the time, Pete as an actor played a lot of different roles - bandit, used car salesman, train conductor, prison guard, general nuisance, ornery neighbor, drill sarge and more...a surprisingly wide array of roles for someone typecast as "the bad guy" in cartoon shorts which we could definitely use in many different ways.
And if he gets pissy about having a boss now, since his default persona seems close to Goof Troop, maybe Peg is still around and could rein in his worst excesses? Definitely something to think about
Despite Doofs generally approachable demeanor, we´ll still need to do some of the shadier stuff that Ross or Monogram would be adverse to do because of their rather upstanding personality - meaning that we could use someone who is not afraid to sully their hands with (sometimes-not-so-petty) larceny... Who better for that than Disneys go-to bad guy toon for most of its illustrious career? Plus, the basis for our quests version of Pete seems to be his *Goof Troop* incarnation, which is just the right amount of petty crime and low cunning/street smarts.
Another - often understated - facet of Pete is the fact, that he is Disneys *oldest Toon still in use* (heck, he is about five years older than their mascot Mickey) and considering tDooms genocidal campaign of dipping every Toon that puts a toe outta line, Pete might be the oldest Toon still around *period* (even Betty Boop - who has got to be among the last B&W Toons still alive - is younger than him by about 5 years as well). That might not sound like much, but consider for one second the flatout *worship* Goofy gets from the surviving Toons for being the MOST FAMOUS Toon...now imagine the PR boots from us managing to get the OLDEST Toon to work for us as well.
Heck, despite being a villain/antagonist most of the time, Pete as an actor played a lot of different roles - bandit, used car salesman, train conductor, prison guard, general nuisance, ornery neighbor, drill sarge and more...a surprisingly wide array of roles for someone typecast as "the bad guy" in cartoon shorts which we could definitely use in many different ways.
And if he gets pissy about having a boss now, since his default persona seems close to Goof Troop, maybe Peg is still around and could rein in his worst excesses? Definitely something to think about
- Location
- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
It's highly unlikely he is a canon character in disguise. I believe it's already been confirmed a few times that he is one of the original characters that came about from the QM and other people playing a tabletop version of this scenario. MiH just chose to add the original characters in slightly modified to fit the new format.
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- the Netherworld Dood
OK and what if someone sabotages an aircraft main fuel line? Or fucks up its controls? Or any number of systems?
There's always going to be vulnerabilities in anything that can be exploited to cause massive damage if not a complete systems collapse even if you double everything and install redundancies that would only make the process a little slower.
I mean the fact that they have a flying city at all is impressive to double everything you wouldn't have much of a city more of a flying engine and that's about it.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
- Location
- ALSO SCREAMING.
It would cook over there, just like everything else, unless you start it on aerostat colonies. Its optimized for chemical and radiological hazards to an absurd degree, probably more, but its going to need water in a liquid state in order to get started.
It was probably a general purpose terraforming agent back when mankind was still among the stars, though for obvious reasons we never get a look at that golden age to be sure, but it probably needed mankind to do the legwork with comet dropping and whatnot first. And I won't rule out it being designed specifically for re-terraforming Earth either though I don't know why civilization would remake the wheel there.
If we could get Mars in the ballpark though it could finish the job. Probably.
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- the Netherworld Dood
You're trying to teleport hundreds of square miles of very hostile jungle to another planet.
That's not problem solved. That's an undertaking that's Functionaly impossible until we have acess to the resources of the entire US and specialized technology.
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- Earth
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Huh. I wonder how Xanatos felt about us coating the entire eastern seaboard in tinfoil twice?