Now we need the dragon
Now we need the dragon
[ ] Establish a Formal Spy Network:
DC 115
It occurs to you that you now have several sneaky people willing to do your bidding, and even more sneaky stuff that needs done. It may be time to establish a formal network of informants, agents, and contacts rather than just asking Russ every time a bit of skullduggery needs done.
(Reward: Unlocks a second intrigue action per turn and unlocks the Spymaster position.)
[ ] Establish a formal spy network
DC 105 (Reduced by XP)
58+14+28+4=104
Failure
Personal Attention Reroll:69+14+28+4=119
Marginal Success
Setting up a spy ring is one of the most unbelievably exhausting things you've ever done. You and Mirage both put in overtime to find informants, vet spies, develop dead drops, and make use of isolated cells. Even with all her experience, you're pretty sure it wouldn't have been pulled off without you making sure every available resource was pushed onto the project. Nonetheless, your secret agent men are set up, and they answer to no one but you.
Second Intrigue Action unlocked!
Spymaster position revealed!
Having thrown what little remained of that awful 'Kernelumper' idea you had straight into the recycle bin, you set about creating an AI that won't trigger horrible nightmare flashbacks every time you look at it. The process is long, arduous, and you can't really remember much of it afterwards, but you push yourself to keep going. You really feel like you might be onto something here, something that pulls together Kronos adaptability, Funtelligence conversational skills, and your own personal flair into an AI that can actually make decisions.
"Yes, yes it is. Anyway, as I was saying, the dark wizard Malifishmertz was sadly defeated by the great knight… Carl? That's a terrible name."
"Can the knight's name be 'Norm'?"
You blink. "Wait. Why do you want that?"
"Please?"
"Oh, all right," you concede, continuing to absentmindedly type. "The noble knight Norm, sure."
The Dragon can be the City Council AI
We have dinosaurs, they are close enough right?
As I understand it, it'll mainly just lower our "bowl of mints" malus. So it's less adding a trait, and more lessing a negative trait. Of course, with AI research (adaptive anti-cape, doppelganger, general), she could become smart enough to get HER OWN stat block...
Small correction, it's not actually fully sapient yet. It still can't pass the Turing test.The best thing is that when Dr. D announces that he programmed a sapient AI in his sleep, literally the only person to be shocked will be Russ. It's all too much tech for Khan, so he doesn't know how impossible it should be, Janna has read sci-fi so she's probably only surprised it took so long, Vanessa's been around him long enough so she knows what shenanigans he tends to get into, this is just something the GalFed has to some degree, everywhere, so she's not all that impressive to Jumba, etc.
It's hard to really engage with this without a source on Toffee doing essentially nothing on Earth, especially when that flies in the face of the fact the Toffee literally just tried to work with us, an earth-based King.Toffee is waging a war over multiple dimensions. 99% of his attention is towards dominating the universe that isn't Earth. He's going to be patient and probably work to develop a new method of expanding his influence before making any decisions relating whether to retaliate against us.
Should we talk to Norm the turn after Janna and the auction? I say he earned it after all this time.[ ] Do some introspection about Norm
Your feelings on Norm are more complicated than you thought. Is he your son? Are you comfortable with that? How are you supposed to be treating him? Is he even really sentient? You've given him a lot of upgrades over the years, but you never remember instructing him to call you father.
Nah, Jumba will be working on the GigaVelociraptor/Carnosaur that will serve as Khan's mount. After all, our forces need to be suitedly impressive when/if we help the USA retake Hawaii (for the low low cost of our choice of alien tech/spacecraft salvage).
I believe that was less Toffee tainting the wand so much as him tainting the Realm of Magic using the fact that the wand is a direct conduit to it.He did taint the Wand with his influence already so he could do similar things with the corn to make them addictive and/or more suspectable for his influence via magic or slow magic acting poison.
I iz much happines. Kernelumper got a cameoHaving thrown what little remained of that awful 'Kernelumper' idea you had straight into the recycle bin, you set about creating an AI that won't trigger horrible nightmare flashbacks every time you look at it.
I never suggested that Toffee would simply not do anything on Earth. I'm saying that I don't think he will retaliate in the way that you think. I don't really think that Social Media will be effective enough as a counter-PR tool as you think. ENCOM doesn't work by social media. It works by controlling nearly every computer in the world. Toffee's attacks also won't be focused on social media. I do believe that we should do social media, but not by putting off Chicken Itza.Do PR and ENCOM with Social Media, do Malifishmertz with Acme Delivery, and do Occult with Xanadu. If we don't have to sacrifice the initiative, why should we just because we'll survive the process?
That's quitter talk! We'll make crickets the new American staple food, dammit!That's what I'm concerned about. I really don't see Toffee pulling a Doom-style speech about how we're so focused on uplifting cricket-kind that we refused to feed the poor citizens of America with some proper corn, but I can see him, for example, offering the corn himself. And marketing it as better than crickets.
Because it literally is.
I think it was just at cost (ie really really cheap corn), not free.Toffee is more occupied with his multi-dimensional war with Phobe. I don't think he will spend much time dealing with our eccentric refusal to accept free corn. I mean, while he surely has more important things and a longer attention span than, say-ooh shiny!
"What offer of corn? Where? This agent of yours, did he walk in through the front doors? Did he schedule an appointment? Do my staff remember him arriving?"
There are disadvantages to sending messages via magic men in snappy suits who arrive at your office door without passing the Hall of Traps and without scheduling a meeting...
Unless I'm misinterpreting the way that meeting went down.
But if we don't have Donald, who will tell us if a place looks like a good spot to find some ingredients?
this is just something the GalFed has to some degree, everywhere, so she's not all that impressive to Jumba, etc.
I won't stop you from trying. Good luck!
(From my own experiences, you'll need it.)
Of course if we can't get the texture right (vertebrate meat snobs feh) we can always use the things as fish food in aquaculture. Becuase one of the largest problems with fish farms is that the fish people prefer eat other fish. But here we have a easily expandable source of protein to stuff the things stupid.That's quitter talk! We'll make crickets the new American staple food, dammit!
That's what I'm concerned about. I really don't see Toffee pulling a Doom-style speech about how we're so focused on uplifting cricket-kind that we refused to feed the poor citizens of America with some proper corn, but I can see him, for example, offering the corn himself. And marketing it as better than crickets.
Because it literally is.
That's quitter talk! We'll make crickets the new American staple food, dammit!
[ ] Research Dino Domestication
DC 90
Before you can really manage to get use out of dinosaurs, you need to establish a basic means of getting them to follow orders and, you know, not eat their handlers. A combination of intensive behavioral study and careful genetic modification should do the trick, at least for the smaller ones.
Reward: Dinosaur Farming action unlocked, Dinosaur Entertainment action unlocked, Domesticate Large Herbivores action unlocked, Dinosaur Cavalry action unlocked, Environmental Adaptations action unlocked[/SPOILER]
Decided to look up who 085 was, and while he didn't make a formal appearance in the series, Leroy and Stitch did give him the name "Screwup," which answered all of my questions anyways."Oh, yes, designed while half asleep. I have done that too. Very strange results, you know - I will have to tell you about Experiment 085 one day, I think."