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- USA
Why not the next two turns?
It takes one of doofs personal actions.
Reading the spellbook, chat with bossman, make up with Roger, and hire Detective Agency.
DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
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- Crossover
Why not the next two turns?
It takes one of doofs personal actions.
Reading the spellbook, chat with bossman, make up with Roger, and hire Detective Agency.
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Speaking of AI, how does it translate into a programming? I'm asking because it might give us a trait like Jumba's genetics master trait.
- Location
- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
To be honest, I am really honestly loving how often Janna seems to be getting these thematically appropriate rolls 
The Butterfly book also is home to Glossaryk, a god-like being created at the beginning of the multiverse, and I doubt the Encantus would be able to fuse him in to itself unless he wanted to do so.
*That's in reference to the fact that the first spell-book burnt in a fire when the queen/princess Lyric of the time cared more about rescuing her clothes than the book
I would imagine the Encantus is more a general knowledge spell book, and thus wouldn't have "home-made" spells and notes like the (2nd)* Royal Spell-Book or Star's personal spell-book would have. Like, the Butterfly book isn't a true standardized spell-book like the Encantus, so much as it is an oversized notebook with multiple generations of notes and extra spells and pages stuffed in it.
The Butterfly book also is home to Glossaryk, a god-like being created at the beginning of the multiverse, and I doubt the Encantus would be able to fuse him in to itself unless he wanted to do so.
*That's in reference to the fact that the first spell-book burnt in a fire when the queen/princess Lyric of the time cared more about rescuing her clothes than the book
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- Location
- California
Nah, you gotta weave'm together like a pair of phonebooks
Edit: more serious, the encantus might work for a wide swath of magic, but not the whole thing: star's magic erasure feat was listed as all-encompassing to, but mih on discord has said that would "only" get a large portion of magic (paraphrase)
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- Peterborough, NH, USA
Is- Isn't that what Fusion is?
The Encantus is our textbook. The art, science, and history of sorcery. Including our recent history as well.
That's about all we get in terms of description of the thing from Blake, with the "recent history" showing a page that seems to have auto-generated describing their recent defeat of a Morganian sorcerer. Drake Stone is a mostly self-taught Morganian who used the Encantus left by his master to become passably competent in sorcerous matters.
From a crossover perspective, it may be simpler to assume that the Encantus deals with the Morganian/Merlinian sorcerer lines and that Glossaryck's spellbook, being mainly about the queens of Mewni and other extra-dimensional stuff, probably offers limited overlap.
However, the Encantus is of particular interest to us, because it gives a route of formal training for our growing coven of dabblers and amateus. One that does not rely on the good will of a super-evil warlock ghost currently possessing an artifact and who will betray us in a New York minute if given half a chance.
One thing in favour of the Merlinian stuff. Those with talent seem capable of quickly learning the basics:
EDIT: Yes, there is there is the ghost warlock over at the home country that we will get around to recruiting one of these days, but redundancy can only help here.
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Why again did we want to do this? Because from what I can tell, we just lost ourselves wax statue Khan.
I hope you all are happy.
Edit:
Typo, that should have said "auction". Because we want to save money. So we can buy (as I am informed the kids say these days) "phat lewtz'
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- USA
I think we will be ok honestly.
We can do social media next turn for a moderate increase, do the save money action again, and hire them to investigate something.
It's a whole extra intrigue action. Worth it in my opinion, especially if it could become a permanent thing eventually.
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- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
To be honest, while I am fairly certain he definitely would try to possess someone (or at least corrupt them) to his own ends right now, I don't really foresee him staying like that forever. I could easily see him becoming a bit more like Rubilax from the show Wakfu in the sense that he does lighten up a bit and get more attached to his current owner - Janna in this case - with enough time and training.
For context, Rubilax is a demon embedded in a sword wielded by a character named Tristepin. In season 1 he is always trying to posses Tristepin and those around him to go on a rampage, but by season 3 he kinda stops trying to always do that and even goes out of his way to save his wielder's life despite not having to do so.
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ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
Regarding the Dickens Detective Agency... if anyone wants to use them, you may want to keep this in mind when deciding what action we should hire them for:
Rubi is... not the best example to use?
He only stopped being a turbo-dick because Goultard released him from the sword and Tristepin managed to beat him against all odds, causing him to become very tsundere about things during the possession episode.
Afterwards, Rubi found himself with no good options when Rushu sentenced him to death and not all that long afterwards it turned out that Tristepin was actually Iop slumming it among mortals and when push comes to shove he can beat Goultard, so it is not as if Rubi can actually even consider betraying him at this point in time.
Janna is not, as far as we know, capable of beating a powerful warlock. It is also fairly unlikely that she is actually a goddess in disguise.
Looking at available intrigue actions...
[ ] Investigate Orton Mahlson
This seems normal private detective stuff.
[ ] Investigate the Middleton Drug Ring
Risky, but not evil at all.
[ ] Investigate crime in LA
As above.
[ ] Investigate the cape scene
As long as we aren't asking them to unmask secret identities, which the description suggests is not the case, this should be fine.
[ ] Investigate what's happening in Florida
Speaking from OOC, sending them into this situation would be Evil TO them.
[ ] Investigate what's happening in Oregon
As above. Also, let's not poke Bill without some kind of decent Intrigue/Occult combo.
[ ] Investigate Toffee
Probably not a bad idea, but probably also calls for some Intrigue/Occult combo heroes of higher caliber than the Loser Ninja Squad.
[ ] Spy on your employees
Depending on how we present this, it may come accross as scummy so maybe not. We probably want to handle this in-house.
[ ] Conduct corporate espionage
Definitely scummy. We shouldn't do this.
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- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
Fair, though he does still technically still around even after Tristepin loses that power. I just can't really think of that many examples of "a hero uses a weapon with an awakened evil being in it" so that's the first thing that came to mind.
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ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
Also, any Intrigue action that we take through the Dickens Detective Agency will have a hero unit already assigned on it, meaning we can't use our hero units on that action...
Regarding Dicken Family, remember that they also use money. Should we even use them when we are saving up for the auction? I think we only need to use them when we have our hands full of urgent Intrigue actions, or when we don't want someone to be tracing the investigation back to us.
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- Location
- Germany
Well, considering how well this last turn went and how public some of it was (Domesticated Dinos as pets, cattle and service animals, you know?) as well as the expected fallout for the more covert stuff (effectively clipping the wings of Dooms Intrigue guy and...PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ABOUT JANNA), we should tick off that "remain sucessful in your endeavours" field on his onbservation list for us, methinks.
And also...
Well, you know what they say about the world's greatest swordsman.
To me that was more of a "a broken clock striking the right time twice a day" deal, but I do get your point
Nono, I wanna create a situation concerning him where *we don´t lose*...Very big difference.
Heck, part of the reason I am pushing so hard for us doing that Alliance thingy with him as a member is me wanting him to *point his vast intellect, economic prowess and (magical) power AWAY FROM US*...if he point all that the direction of our mutual enemies, all the better in my book.
As for the bit about circles: Depending on how one sees things, circles are either actually round or actually polygons with infinite corners...so while "squaring the circle" remains a riddle for the ages, it´s still an amusing thought.
...Well, that happened.
While I´d still have preferred Max doing it (despite it *for some reason* counting as Martial and therefore Max´ teen trait not triggering), Dennis definitely did what we asked him to and then some...maybe even encountered P&F in some fashion.
So I am okay with how things went.
Considering that Goofy ain´t the brightest bulb in term of AI finagling, his parenting skills coming through and essentially making CJ a better Diplo & Steward Hero is definitely something very good for both him and us.
Hmmm....anyone got an idea what that one could be?
...That action had a DC of 90 and Janna would have suceeded *on her dice roll alone, w/o any modifiers*...
Sure, it would not have netted those sweet boons probably, but it still would have suceeded nonetheless...That´s definitely something nice.
So, the "moderate income increase" will be cancelling out the malus from us putting back some dosh for that auction in October at least partially - nice.
The Ruby Wings are definitely neato, although I was hoping to build them into that power armor that we might wanna build at some point to not crack at the first sign of direct opposition like Syndrome did. Of course we´d have to make it look as if they/the suit does it in a technological way as to not ruffle any Masqueraed feathers about revealing the existence of Magic, but having a personal method of rapid, three-dimensional movement that gives enemies something to get worked up about is definitely something we should consider for ourselves. (Plus, how could would be us sporting giant, blodd-red wings outta our power armor all off a sudden?)
That being said, Janna (as the occult powerhouse she seems to be becoming) or Vanessa (as our "little angel") getting those wings would be nifty as well.
That avatar definitely is gonna be Jannas bodyguard for the time being, since her right now wielding Felldrake should lower taht damn berserking chance it got going.
Xanadu indirectly being boosted is nice, but we should wait with it until we can get Khan his steed for the power of A MONGOL KHAN AT PEAK PERFORMANCE.
...I can hear Doom sneering about us "callously exploiting Toons as cheap factory drones" already, but this revelation can still help us integrate those Toons who want to simply lay low without acting up into a proper life.
That´s probably what this new action is about at least partially - we staff our factories and delivery services with Toons, who thanks to their comedic nature feed off/into ACMEs reliance on the Toonforce to get stuff done, boosting both our productivity and the living standards of our Toon populace in the process (sure, being factory workers isn´t all that glamorous, but that way they can be make a living and still be appreciated for being Toon-y about it)
Everyone in Doofania is a winner here.
...although I am not quite sure how our attempts to move Castle Doofhawk around is gonna profit from us looking into ACME shenanigans, I am not turning away from a free boon if offered.
Ouch...that´s gonna sting for Dooms attempts to do intrigues against us specifically (again, that -15 is IN ADDITION to the general -10, meaning that for the next few turns Doom will have a considerable malus of -25 in Intrigue against us)
Now that I think about about it (and if I am understanding quest mechanics correctly), while that malus is active we should do Intrigue actions against Doom.
Just think about it, if he´s contesting our Intrigue rolls he´ll be having to deall with that malus weighing down him. So while that malus is active, we should pound Doom as hard as we can with Intrigue actions to really let that fucker suffer. And when Doomtown is starting to go down, we make Hawk *an offer he better not refuse* to effectively become our double agent against Doom, twisting the knife in that bastard´s back even more.
Doom will rue the day he decided to take a swing at us and genocide those poor Toons for his own profit...
Yeah, definitely something we could draw profit from...
A very fortunate outcome indeed.
Dinosaur Farming sounds like cattle to me, meaning that we can get dino meat on the plates of our people (even if only as luxury goods) which will help counteracting the possible PR malus for refusing Toffees corn deal.
Speaking of PR, that moderate public opinion boost might help our rather concerning low value there as well.
Entertainment and Large Herbivores are nice-to-haves, although animal rights activists might take offense at us for turning dinos into circus/zoo attractions.
Dino Cavalry just smells of a good synergy with giving Khana worthy steed...to say nothing of the general coolness of DINO CAVALRY
I am not quite sure what "Environmental Adaptions" are, but maybe it can feed nicely into our Greevil line? Definitely not bad regardless
Bit annoying, that Von Drake "only" barely suceeded, but she still pulled through in the end...so we can make progress in the fields of AI regardless.
"The cards, the cards...
The cards will tell-
your past, present and future as well"
...Yes, I KNOW that the villain/King I just referenced is part of Classics and any "cross-pollution" is heavily frowned upon for *reasons*, but it was just too good a quote to pass up.
I am definitely interested in what we´ll be getting to know here regardless.
*Shrugs*
They might not particularly like being relegated to mere accounting duty, but they still did a good job at it regardless.
So in the end, we shouldn´t be running outta "pocket change" during the auction, which is nice should anything particularly luxurious catch our fancy.
The perfect time to score a Nat 100 imho, since while I am happy that Janna kept us from doing something dumb, we are still her BOSS and therefore we are entitled to an explanation.
Since we keep scoring rather low on that action, maybe we should consider getting Malfishmertz´ help here?
Hmmm...definitely something to consider, especially considering that I really want us to double down on profiting from Dooms Intrigue malus against us.
I am not saying that we should lob the Dickens Agency at Doom directly, just that having them do something non-evil some other place will free up an Intrigue slot against Doom for doing some more shady stuff than they might be comfortable with.
Clever outsorcing of needed work, you know?
I was told that Wendy is a pretty good AI researcher. Considering that our progress in that regard has been...sub-par, we might wanna hire her to address that field more properly (especially since CJ and/or Norm might benefit from it)
Definitely something to profit from, shouldwe need Khan somewhere else (including maybe on that Xanadu quest?)
Plus having our top Martial guy officially registered might placate the government further...small boon if nothing else.
Yeah, that one will take some time no matter what we´ll do...so I am not taht concerned either way.
Should help us adress actions like burying the hatchet with Roger and introspection about Norm (and now CJ as well) a bit better if nothing else.
To anyone saying we should continue doing that option every now and then, I think Technor and Doof will be continuing their sessions off-screen without our direct input. That action in my mind is more of a "initialize First Contact/adress explicitly pressing matters" kinda deal.
Considering there is apparently a...catnip drug ring...going on in Doofanias animal undergound, Hego might have indirectly interfered there without knowing...
We might wanna keep an eye out on that front.
Could have been better, but it definitely helped both father and son with their bond, so I am happy.
...Don´t I know the allure of procrastination when important stuff is to be done.
A pity, but can´t be helped
And Janna continues to be our MVP, even on angles nobody expected.
Lizzy getting better is definitely good for us all around.
Would at least explain how he survived that shitshow he calls a "backstory" and came out *Relatively* well-adjusted (if frustrated, yearning for aknoledgment and incredibly petty)
Counterpoint:
Mongols of the time were *harassers*, meaning that they excelled at hit-and-run attacks to wear down the enemy.
Triceratops aren´t realy built for that...now, Utahraptors on the other hand...
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- washington
our gruncle can probably wait. Really it takes an action to call them up with the device or whatever they gave us and they can only manifest for a little while. We plan to transport the castle soon anyways so it really seems like a waste of an action.
We should absolutely get Wendy as soon as we can though unfortunately that might mean going another turn without giving Goofy a break
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Honestly I have no idea why some of you guys seem dead set on insisting that summoning Malfinshmirtz will help with a personal action that doesn't have a catagory.
Not really. We also want to reach out to Shego next turn, thus we can put Hego on Diplomacy action to reach her sister. Mirage will handle recruiting Wendy, leaving the Intrigue action to Russ and Tobe while Occult to Janna.
If we don't want to use the family card with Shego we can use instead Max or Vanessa. Reaching out to Shego's DC is pretty low. (DC 40)
Edit: Nevermind. I had just rechecked what National Actions and Hero Units we have and apparantly we need Mirage on Stewardship duty along with Coyote. Maybe we can pull back Technor away from psychoanalizing Stanley? Considering he is a robot, Wendy should be very interested.
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Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
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- He/Him
While this is true, not all land is suitable for the production of edible plants. Said land can, however, serve perfectly well in the production of meat.
The issue that is that recruiting from the Rolodex has a DC of 70 which is annoyingly high and there's an argument to be made that we should do Xanadu next turn which would leave us with no Occult hero if we have Mirage recruit Wendy and have Tobe do an Intrigue action
But hey for all we know we could be getting a new hero unit or two from these interludes
Some of us want to wait a couple of turn for the Quest so that Temujin can ride a Dino to battle, and yes. We are indeed rather short on Hero units now with all of these extra actions.