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Alex Sol said:
What if they start fight with supervillian and level couple of buildings? For every good example there exist corresponding bad example. For society to work there should be at least some kind of regulaton. At minimum make them recieve hero licence, similar to driver licence.
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You don't need any kind of license to make a pipe bomb with materials you can buy from any hardware/grocery store.
 
In reality, if superheroes, superpowers, and all that jazz were real, I would absolutely want some kind of registration, or law, or something of the sort keeping a check on them. Human error is omnipresent, and property damage doesn't just go away when the camera pans over, in real life.

In ficiton, though, I want government laws and regulations kept far, far away from my superheroes. In a meta sense, superheroes are meant to be bastions of heroism and virtue -it's not necessarily that they can't do harm, it's that they aren't going to. Their stories are either meant to inspire or to entertain, and forcing them to work around the minutiae of governmental red tape diminishes their ability to be what they are.

In a Quest, where real life and narrative often conflate ...

... I don't know what I want? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
The last time I mentioned it being page 666 on a thread it was immediately followed by a demonic invasion. Hopefully the same doesn't happen here!
 
Mojave said:
Technor - Psychoanalyze Janna
Yes.
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TECHNOR doing therapy with Stanley is my top priority, since every turn we put that off is another two months he spends in prison despite also benefitting from the nat 100 on Lizzie.

I get it, people like Janna and they want to make sure she's fine. But while that's important, I don't consider it actually urgent.

After this interlude, she's already in a much better place than she was before it.
  1. She knows that unlike in Echo Creek, she's not alone. An entire organization of very competent individuals (and L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.) has her back.
  2. She knows that we're going to search for her friends, people who know Toffee, who have fought him and lived to tell the tale.
  3. She knows that Doof won't sell out to Toffee. This one is incredibly important. She just came from a place that he outright ruled unopposed from the shadows. Doof rejecting the deal is a metaphorical chink in his armour. He can't just trample over all opposition anymore.
People, I'm begging you.

Please stop getting distracted by finding new and exciting problems to throw therapy at long enough to pick up the practically free Hero Unit.
 
Ashmaker said:
TECHNOR doing therapy with Stanley is my top priority, since every turn we put that off is another two months he spends in prison despite also benefitting from the nat 100 on Lizzie.

I get it, people like Janna and they want to make sure she's fine. But while that's important, I don't consider it actually urgent.

After this interlude, she's already in a much better place than she was before it.
  1. She knows that unlike in Echo Creek, she's not alone. An entire organization of very competent individuals (and L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.) has her back.
  2. She knows that we're going to search for her friends, people who know Toffee, who have fought him and lived to tell the tale.
  3. She knows that Doof won't sell out to Toffee. This one is incredibly important. She just came from a place that he outright ruled unopposed from the shadows. Doof rejecting the deal is a metaphorical chink in his armour. He can't just trample over all opposition anymore.
People, I'm begging you.

Please stop getting distracted by finding new and exciting problems to throw therapy at long enough to pick up the practically free Hero Unit.
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At this rate, I reckon Stanley will get a clean bill of health and be let go from prison offscreen. Then he can go be a supervillain in another territory while he sorts out his life without his old toxic relationship with his nemesis.
 
weredrago2 said:
At this rate, I reckon Stanley will get a clean bill of health and be let go from prison offscreen. Then he can go be a supervillain in another territory while he sorts out his life without his old toxic relationship with his nemesis.
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Could we get an action to invest in his company? I think establishing a harsh mountain range between Toffee's territory and ours could be nice.
 
Nystical said:
Could we get an action to invest in his company? I think establishing a harsh mountain range between Toffee's territory and ours could be nice.
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You'd have to take that up with MiH, but wouldn't Magma Industries have gone under or exchanged hands with Stanley being in jail?

That isn't a rhetorical question. I don't know jack about how to run a minor megacorp.
 
weredrago2 said:
At this rate, I reckon Stanley will get a clean bill of health and be let go from prison offscreen. Then he can go be a supervillain in another territory while he sorts out his life without his old toxic relationship with his nemesis.
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I'm guessing there might be some middling-to-high random event roll for him finishing therapy off-screen and joining us from that, but I'd prefer not to rely on that.
 
weredrago2 said:
You'd have to take that up with MiH, but wouldn't Magma Industries have gone under or exchanged hands with Stanley being in jail?

That isn't a rhetorical question. I don't know jack about how to run a minor megacorp.
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Hmm, if so I think investing in his new start-up efforts could be nice. Even if it's only a minor income boost / tech options at first, It could be interesting to get a loyal construction company on our side, and depending on its size and loyalty, could be part of Doofania's 'institutions'.

Edit: If he was really booted from his CEO position because of this, then investing in the company to have enough control to give him back the CEO position could be a nice way to gain some loyalty back, and some extra income.
 
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Hmm, do you think it would be better to have Tobe train his Vagabond Ninja first, or find a master? If he trains the Vagabond the master might not have to do so much work. However the Vagabond ninja might gain more from Tobe if Tobe gets trained by an actual master. I'm inclined to have him find a master before training the Vagabond. It might even give us a new hero in our Rolodex!

Yey...
 
weredrago2 said:
You'd have to take that up with MiH, but wouldn't Magma Industries have gone under or exchanged hands with Stanley being in jail?

That isn't a rhetorical question. I don't know jack about how to run a minor megacorp.
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Nystical said:
Hmm, if so I think investing in his new start-up efforts could be nice. Even if it's only a minor income boost / tech options at first, It could be interesting to get a loyal construction company on our side, and depending on its size and loyalty, could be part of Doofania's 'institutions'.
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In a shocking plot twist, it turns out that Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated has been acquiring companies off-screen the entire quest, we just never noticed because of a hidden malus from the I Have My Finger In a Bowl of Mints? trait.

Once we discover this, just sorting through our portfolio to find out what we actually own will take an extended series of Stewardship actions.
Made in Heaven said:
"Janna!" You say, finally fed up with her behavior. "That was a huge deal down there! A lot of people in Doofania will be angry at me if they find out I got handed corn a silver platter and I turned it down. So you will tell me what is going on this instant!"
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Edit because I forgot to add this before I posted: On a more serious note, I had a thought.

Since Toffee failed with us, who will he go after next? I see two main possibilities: Doom because of proximity + because Toffee doesn't care about genocidal tendencies, and Glomgold because that kind of greed is a lever I can see Toffee make excellent use of.
 
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weredrago2 said:
You'd have to take that up with MiH, but wouldn't Magma Industries have gone under or exchanged hands with Stanley being in jail?

That isn't a rhetorical question. I don't know jack about how to run a minor megacorp.
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I've never run into this particular scenario, but I don't think much would happen at all.

Like, Stanley wouldn't be acting CEO while he was in jail on grounds of being in jail, but that wouldn't cause the company as a legal entity to cease to exist. It, and its employees, would still be fine. (They might face increased legal scrutiny given that their products were made and used by a supervillain, but this is Doofania, so maybe not.)

And assuming Stanley had a controlling stake in the company, be it public or private? Stanley would retain his stake in the company, and on release would still have a controlling stake in the company. And while I doubt a supervillain would have done the prudent thing and given someone else power of attorney to help manage his affairs while behind bars, he could manage them just fine once he got out. Putting himself back in charge of the company is probably one of the first things he'd do.

Alternately, if it was a public company and Stanley lacked a controlling stake, the company would continue to exist but Stanley would no longer be at its head (unless he got himself rehired as CEO, somehow).

Now, there's always the possibility that the company went under because it lacked Stanley's enlightened guidance or something, but his arrest in it of itself wouldn't make Magma Industries go under, as far as I know.
 
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Who can we afford to send to Xanadu next turn? Janna and Genghis Khan won't have much Diplomacy, Stewardship, or Learning. They have Martial, Intrigue, and Occult covered between the two of them. Our other high-stat heroes should be occupied next turn. We could send Lizzie for Learning, but who would cover Stewardship or Diplomacy? We could send Mirage, though that would mean probably mean sacrificing an Intrigue action.
 
Alex Sol said:
What if they start fight with supervillian and level couple of buildings? For every good example there exist corresponding bad example. For society to work there should be at least some kind of regulaton. At minimum make them recieve hero licence, similar to driver licence.
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Of course there should be some regulation but it's disingenuous to assume that there wasn't any during the Golden Age when there definitively was
 
[ ]Plan: [PROTOTYPE]
-[M] Dinosaur Calvary
--Dennis
-[D] Reach out to Shego
--Vanessa
-[D] Recruit from Rolodex (Wendy)
--Goofy
-[St] Comedize your Supply Chain
--Wile E. Coyote
-[St] Rebrand Insuricare
--Hego
-[In] Investigate Toffee
--Russ
-[In] Look for Star Butterfly
--Mirage
-[L] Research AI Doppelgangers
--Von Drake
-[L] Dinosaur Farming
--Jumba
-[O] Research alchemy
--Tobe
-[Q] You made Me Love Xanadu
--Janna
--Temujin
--Max
--Lizzie
--Monogram
-[P] Read Spellbook
-[P] Make up with Roger
-[P] Hire Dickens Detective Agency
-[P] Start writing a musical
-[Technor] Psychoanalyze
--Janna
-[L.OV.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.] Buy out Lee Industries
-[Dickens] Look for Marco
-Don't Overclock Technor
-Activate an Inator

Prototype plan (doesn't even have a name yet). Need further thoughts and suggestions for refinement
 
mangawriter77 said:
Prototype plan (doesn't even have a name yet). Need further thoughts and suggestions for refinement
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1. I would prefer Genghis to be the one to do Cavalry. Giving that action to anyone else is an insult. Plus, it could result in him getting his own steed automatically.
2. I would prefer having Hego purchase Lee Industries and LOVEMUFFIN rebranding Insuricare. Firstly, Evil Insurance rebranding will require evil scientists and Hego won't like being part of the evil rebrand. Secondly, Hego is better at stewardship and I think Lee industries will be more important.
3. Tinker with Inators. We have a lot of powerful inators (good and bad) so I think it's time to start getting the option to pick the ones that synergize with our actions.
 
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