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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest

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I'd toss back a squip. Not to remake my life, more just to have mental friend and someone to sort the mental chaos.
 
KitRougard said:
I'd toss back a squip. Not to remake my life, more just to have mental friend and someone to sort the mental chaos.
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Yeah, but can anyone else picture one of the NUMEROUS tech based villians making these? They are almost custom built for subtle mind control by directing you to think and act in certain ways (not mind control but some very very smart manipulation)... Eventually it could build a fanatical army or just get the ideal consumer base
 
lockingbane said:
Yeah, but can anyone else picture one of the NUMEROUS tech based villians making these? They are almost custom built for subtle mind control by directing you to think and act in certain ways (not mind control but some very very smart manipulation)... Eventually it could build a fanatical army or just get the ideal consumer base
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It almost sounds like the nootropics that are being sold out of Middleton.
 
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Bad--Smell-inator
You remember this one back from the Mid-Summer Festival. After that fateful incident, you managed to recreate your dirty diaper formula for the annual Danville Fall Festival. However, you realized if you just crashed in your mancave evil lounge area and turned the volume on the tv up real loud, you wouldn't be bothered. So, you kinda just forgot about it... until now, now that you've managed to make all of Doofania smell bad.
Effect: Decrease in public morale and PR, -5 malus to all national actions.
Good--De-Handsome-inator
Turns out? After that incident where you were almost made Supreme Ruler of the Tri-State Area, the De-Handsome-inator got stuck on "Not Ugly". Now that you're ruler of the Tri-State Area, there's really not any point. However, you have noticed that your sudden takeover and enforcement of Doof-related industries has put several people out of work, causing many to lose their homes. The reason things have gotten so bad? Nobody cares enough because everyone is apparently "repulsed" by them and it's "not their business". Well, with the now rebranded Handsome-inator, that could change...
Effect: No more homeless in Doofania! All of the homeless suddenly becoming extremely handsome (or beautiful in the case of women, get off my back, you think) has caused people to become more productive so they can earn money so they have enough to spend on the Handsome Homeless. +5 to national actions, PR and morale boost, increased income
 
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Interlude: Fredzilla In: The Banzai Bat Blowout
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    • Note: This interlude may not make much sense unless you have read the canon omake: Friday Night Fights.

    Fred Frederickson could not believe his luck. Not only had his initial foray into solo superheroics been going off perfectly, with a brand-new nemesis in the form of the mysterious Tomokiri, but San Fransokyo had been beset for the last two months by dozens of horrific biological monsters! Now sure that sounded bad, but it also sounded cool! And it was a perfect excuse for the mother of all superhero events: The Team Up!

    Fred had run into fellow newcomer Peacekeeper a few weeks ago, and decided to join forces.

    But this wasn't just any old team up. The monsters seemed to be going for capes indiscriminately, hero and villain. And that meant a need for the infamous… Villain Truce! Peacekeeper's longtime nemesis, Downbeat, had decided to join the side of righteousness for a limited time only, something with a long and storied history when a greater threat came to town. This was Fred's first Truce, and he was very excited.

    "Ooooh, this is gonna be so cool!" Fred said happily, voice echoing out of his kaiju-shaped Fredzilla suit. "I've always wanted to be part of a Villain Truce! My daaaaaaaa… I mean. Boss Awesome had so many stories, like the time he called a truce with Baron von Steamer and Lady Lightningbug to take down Baron von Ruthless when he tried to destroy New Osaka!"

    Peacekeeper and Downbeat watched the 'great superhero' Fredzilla with degrees of bemusement.

    "So, what do you think we should do first? Stakeout the last known location? Set a trap? Declare a challenge?!? Or maybe..."

    "Oh my god." Downbeat said. "He's like a puppy. Can we keep him?"

    "Our apartment does not allow pets." Peacekeeper whispered.

    "...hide in ambush until they make another attack, then trail them back to their Evil Villain Lair?" Fred continued, oblivious to the comments being made about him. "They're bats, so they're probably holed up in the Muirahara Woods somewhere, right? Oh! Or maybe one of the warehouses down near the docks district! They've been pretty quiet ever since my nemesis cleaned out the Triads. Or provoke him into making an attack! I can't do that one, obviously, but I'll look the other way just this once if you wanna do it." he said, turning to Downbeat expectantly.

    "I'm sorry, what?"

    "You're a supervillain, right?!? I'm saying if you need to use your like, morally ambiguousness for the greater good, it's ok. But just this once!"

    The two stared at him for a moment. "I think we should probably start by looking for any reports of strange animal attacks in the area, and try to catch one while it's still happening."

    "Oh, yeah. Heh. Good idea. I mean, that was my next guess." He struck a heroic pose to inspire his fellows. "Now! We go on patrol!"

    "Do you… actually have patrol routes mapped out?"

    "Uh, no." Fred said, as if the answer was obvious. "If I did, then villains could figure them out and track me down! No offense."

    "None… taken?" Downbeat said after a moment,

    "No, I just go where the wind of justice takes me. Next week I'm thinking about taking down the evil demon cultists hiding down by the docks."

    "What?" Peacekeeper asked.

    "Yeah!" Fred wiggled his fingers. "They sacrifice hobos in the sewers in honor of their dark master far beneath the earth!"

    Peacekeeper started to say something.

    "Just drop it." Downbeat said, putting a hand on Peacekeeper's shoulder.

    "So! Where to first?" Fred asked excitedly.

    Peacekeeper fiddled with something before pulling a smartphone out of her combat suit. "Let's see… Ok! I have a… police scanner built into this thing and… there! There's some sort of altercation going on down at Noridasuku!"

    Just as Fred was about to take a massive leap into the air, something caught his eye. A dark figure on a nearby rooftop, just on the edge of the shadows.

    "Gasp!"

    "What is it?" Peacekeeper asked, powering up her radiation gun.

    "Loook!" Fred said, pointing very obviously. "It's my nemesssiiiissss!!!!"

    Fred cleared his throat. "Tomokiri! Any other night, now would be the time to engage in honorable single combat! But tonight! A greater evil is afoot. Tonight! I call! For a Villain Truce!"

    Tomokiri stared down for a few moments. Then, without another word, the figure turned and slipped away into the shadows.

    "Villllaaaaan Truuuuuuuuucccccce." Fred squee'd.

    "How do you… function?" Downbeat asked slowly.

    Peacekeeper nodded. "I could hear the capital letters. How did you do that?"

    "The Power of Justice! ...is the answer to both of those questions. Now c'mon!"

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    The Noridasuku Ward was a center of economic life in San Fransokyo. Located along a stretch of reclaimed seawall, it was in many ways the heart of the city. Noridasuku ran from the north shore and Fisherman's Wharf along the edge of the Financial District that played host to so many of the great Zaibatsu, before terminating on the inner bay among the docks and warehouses of Rinkōnā Hill. Once a playhome for the area's rich and powerful, the Great Catastrophe of 1906 tore their mansions to the ground. In their place, the region became a center of industrial production and shipping.

    Many of the warehouses in the area had until recently been nothing more than fronts for the Triads, utilizing the cover of night to distribute their illicit wares. That changed several months ago, when relative newcomer Tomokiri struck the unprepared operation. Triad smuggling rings across the ward had been dismantled, and the Yakuza were even now gaining more of a foothold in the district.

    Fred wasn't sure if he should thank his nemesis for that or not. On one hand, he had clearly done some good by clearing out bands of criminals, but on the other, he was doing it for all the wrong reasons! Maybe someday he could convince him to give up his evil ways and see the light of righteousness, but that was probably a long way off. Villains didn't just reform overnight. He would have to keep trying though, because that's what heroes do! Wait a second, wasn't there something else he was supposed to be thinking about? Oh yeah!

    "Where's the disturbance, PK?"

    Downbeat snorted.

    "Can we save the nicknames for later?" Peacekeeper asked.

    "Aw, I kinda like it, PK."

    "Watch it, DB."

    There was a brief moment as all three of them remembered what they were supposed to be doing.

    "Oh right!" Peacekeeper said sheepishly, coming to a stop on top of a Yaki Taco and pulling her phone up again. "Warehouse on eastern Yari Street. That way!"

    As Fred leapt from rooftop to rooftop, a thought occurred to him. Running in blind was the way heroes in comic books got ambushed all the time! The villains always relied on them being brash and hotheaded so they'd run in and step on a stun mine or something, leaving them out of commission for the next three days while the villain stole their identity and used it to commit crimes and- he was getting off topic. The point was that he should slow down a bit and try to see who was responsible for this dastardly attack!

    Hiding behind an air conditioning unit on the roof, he peeked over the edge to witness the assault taking place. It was brutal! It was terrible! It was…

    "Uhhhhhh…" Fred trailed off, looking down at the scene below him.

    "What?"

    Fred waived the other two capes over towards him.

    Sitting below them, rooting around in an overturned dumpster, was what appeared to be a woman. She was wearing the remains of a tattered, soiled dress, which did not appear to have been washed in an uncertain length of time. Some sort of broken metal cap lay tangled in a mess of lavender hair, with two ragged strands matted with dirt and leaves. She was by no means the stranger half of the scene.

    Even more confusing was the enormous, man-sized electric eel currently slithering along the ground towards her.

    "No! Bad kitty!" The dumpster woman yelled, kicking the serpentine creature away from her absentmindedly before returning to her scavenging.

    "Lady, you need to move!" Peacekeeper shouted back, leaping down to the ground and interposing herself between the woman and the monster.

    "Whazza?"

    "You can't stay here!"

    "I'll say!" The woman replied. "The little critter's been bothering me for like five minutes now!"

    Slowly, pieces of the puzzle clicked together in Fred's mind. She obviously wasn't being bothered by the evil electric eel for no reason, she was wearing a weird outfit of some sort, and she was rooting through the dumpster… for evidence! That was it!

    "Don't worry, fellow super! We're here to help! What's your name?"

    "I'm Mina!"

    "No, I mean your cool super name."

    "Mina… Loveberry?"

    "We'll workshop it."

    "Fred." Downbeat said, putting her hand on his shoulder. "That's a homeless woman."

    "No way! This is clearly a fellow superpowered individual."

    The two of them turned to look at Mina again. Mina slowly blinked one eye and then the other.

    "Not sure if she's tech-based or magic though. Leaning magic. What do you think?"

    "Magic isn't real, Fred."

    "And another thing! Why do you keep calling me Fred?! My name is Fredzilla."

    "Right, but…" Downbeat found herself at a loss for words. "Your name is obviously Fred."

    "Aaargh!" Fred groaned, slouching almost to the ground. "How did you find out my cleverly hidden secret identity? Did you torture Heathcliffe?!?"

    "Who?"

    "Darn it!"

    "Guys! Focus!" Peacekeeper yelled as the eel began to charge.

    Mina put her slimy, crumb-covered hand on Fred. "Listen young one. I like your camouflage!" She said, gesturing to his rubbery monster suit. "Use it to sneak up on foes, and tear their arms off!"

    "See?! She's a master strategist! How can you say that she's not a fellow superhero?!"

    "IT'S AN EEL!!!" Downbeat screamed, moments before being forced to leap aside as the monster charged her.

    Peacekeeper fired a series of fissile missiles (Fred came up with that himself, PK was gonna be so excited when he told her the name idea) at the eel, but it proved too slippery, somehow able to move like it was greased despite being on land. "Fred, you can breathe fire right? Help us keep it at bay! If we can hold it at range, it can't-"

    Suddenly, swirling in rhythmic circles, the eel began to work up an electric current. A few seconds later, an orb of ball lightning shot forth, guided by a tail flick directly at the two girls, who scattered.

    "Girl." Downbeat said as she took cover behind a trash can. "You have got to stop saying stuff like that."

    "Why isn't it attacking Fred?!?" Peacekeeper complained before shooting another pair of blasts.

    "Shhh!" Fred stage whispered, holding a clawed finger up to his mouth. "I'm in disguise! If you can keep it distracted then I can sneak up and tear its arms off!"

    "EEL!" The two girls both yelled in frustration.

    "Just work with me."

    "Uuggh." Downbeat capitulated, boosting her backbeat up to drown the madman out and letting a few sonic lances join her roommate's. The eel flailed and slithered to avoid the hail of fire, and all the while Fred crept up behind it. With a last lunge, Fred managed to encircle the monster in his clawed arms.

    "Ha ha! What're you going to do now, huh?"

    The electric eel shocked him.

    "Aaaah!!! It's ok!!!" Fred said in between shocks. "The suit's rubber! I'm insulated! AAaaaah! Sort of insulated!"

    Peacekeeper and Downbeat winced.

    "Ok, I've got it pinned. Now! Finishing blow!"

    "Fred, my suit shoots half-depleted uranium."

    "OOh, maybe I'll get kaiju-powers!"

    Peacekeeper side-eyed Fred for a moment before shifting her focus to Downbeat with a look of resignation. "Would you do the hono-"

    Downbeat blasted the both of them before Peacekeeper even finished speaking. The sonic lance smashed over the eel, causing it to spasm at exactly the same moment that Fred instinctively clapped his hands over the purely decorative ears on his monster suit.

    Hit with the full force of the blast, Fred went tumbling head over heels into the dumpster, causing Mina to finally look up. "Oh hi again!"

    As the eel retreated, slithering away towards the waterfront, Mina pulled herself to her feet and crawled out of the dumpster, carrying a half-eaten Noodle Burger. "Gee thanks guys! That possum was really starting to get grumpy."

    "P...possum?" Peacekeeper asked, trying to catch her breath from the barrage of violence and prepare her mind for a barrage of madness at the same time.

    Fred sidled up to the two girls, leaning in close as Mina began to wander off into the night. "I don't trust her." He declared. "She's an anti-hero. Amoral. Dangerous. We'll need to keep an eye on her."

    "Watch out for the cultists!" Mina called back, waving as she turned the corner. "They really like this part of town ever since the weird burghers moved out."

    "Okay, that's it." Downbeat said, cutting the music entirely. "We've been running around with you all night, and all you managed to accomplish was befriend a hobo and let the creepy thing get away!"

    "At least I managed to record some footage of it." Peacekeeper calmed her, pulling up the data. "When it shot the lightning, was it just me, or was that eel… it looked like it was dancing?"

    "Wait!" Fred exclaimed in gradually accelerating thought. "Say that again."

    "You let the creepy thing get away." Downbeat reiterated.

    "No not that!"

    "The dancing?" Peacekeeper asked.

    "Yeah! Bring up the clearest picture you can get!"

    Peacekeeper fiddled for a moment before turning her phone around, revealing a crystal clear image of the aqua-blue eel.

    Fred studied it closely.

    "I'd recognize that product-laden volume anywhere!" Fred said, pointing at the monster's unusual back frill.

    "What?"

    "Look at this!" Fred said, swiping Peacekeeper's phone without preamble and searching through it. "Here. Noted 80s glam act electric supervillain team High Voltage broke up last year!"

    "That was definitely a series of words." Downbeat noted.

    Fred barreled on regardless. "Juniper's done at least one job over in Colorado, but her mother Barb hasn't been seen since!"

    "Are you suggesting…" Peacekeeper trailed off. "The monsters hunting capes..."

    "Are the capes." Downbeat finished grimly.

    Fred nodded. "Only one question remains." He said, gazing at the pictures of the supervillain and the eel monster side by side.

    "Do you think she's the High one or the Voltage one?"

    ---

    Fredzilla and 'friends' have discovered a major lead on the monsters plaguing the San Fransokyo Cape Scene!
     
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    • Simon_Jester said:
    I read the book at a young enough age to immunize myself partly.

    Then I watched the CGI kids' show when I was like... in my teens. That finished the job.

    The movies are not real to me.
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    I loved that show! I put some Bugs in Saturday Mourning as a tribute since that show was on Fox, even though the movie was a Disney co-production.

    EDIT: I hope everyone enjoys the Fredventures! We worked hard on it.
     
    Welp. Season 2 Big Hero 6 confirmed. I hope Juniper's okay, though I don't like what happened to her mom either if so. Maybe we can figure out how to reverse this shit some day?

    Hm. A thought. Judge Doom has adequate relations with the zaibatsu. He may very well have known this was happening before he released his pro-capes statement earlier. That is just... ghoulish... and plausible.
     
    Simon_Jester said:
    Welp. Season 2 Big Hero 6 confirmed. I hope Juniper's okay, though I don't like what happened to her mom either if so. Maybe we can figure out how to reverse this shit some day?
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    I like to imagine Juniper moved to Doofania even though she didn't get the DEI job. She drives out of the city to do dancing robberies, does dance tip videos online, blows up ATMs, uploads music to Bandcamp, and hangs out with Technor on weekends.
     
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