Xanatos Enterprises
[ ] Lobby against the SRA
DC 100
47+38+42+20+7=154
Great Success
David Xanatos has quietly expressed his approval for the repeal of the SRA, an action that carries more weight than it would for anyone else. Whether Xanatos simply feels a wind change and wishes to get ahead of it, or has some greater plan, no one can say.
Welp, if Shego
and Xanatos are against it it's probably best if we just flip against it ourselves. Silence will speak louder than words when almost all the other prominent Kings have turned against.
[ ] Announce the Fox Xanatos Memorial Foundation
DC 70
71+45+20+7=143
Critical Success
Without any fanfare, David Xanatos has announced the creation of the Fox Xanatos Memorial Foundation on the third anniversary of his wife's passing. The foundation will provide financial assistance to any employees who are put into a financial burden as the result of a recent death in their family.
...I am unsure if we've heard more information on this than
just this, but... Do we have reason to think Fox is dead, or faked death because of something that would be hard to conceal? Hard to be sure.
Captain Gantu
[ ] Break into a rich kid's house
DC 70
60+48+22+15=145
Critical Success
To be continued in Interlude: Closet Encounters
Wacky.
Glomgold Enterprises
[ ] Lobby for the SRA
DC 100
1+32+40+15+8=96
Critical Failure!
To be continued in Interlude: Crashing Forwards
Ooof! Well that didn't end well. Honestly I'm surprised... though I did note earlier that Glomgold can afford to pay for damages caused by super mercenaries regardless of the SRA, giving him an advantage. Then again, after the St. Canard breakout (with some of the toons in question
being supers), he may just be prejudiced against supers himself.
Olympia Corp
[ ] Lobby against the SRA
DC 100
54+33+42+10+2=141
Great Success
Olympia has publicly announced its support for the repeal of the SRA, shattering years of prior policy and distinctly shifting the national environment in a pro-Super direction.
Yeah, I think we'd better push this way... it won't make us look
great, but silence isn't helping either.
[ ] Sponsor a cape
DC 100
85+33+42+10+2=172
Spectacular Success
Olympia only underscored this new commitment by beginning to 'sponsor' a new cape. Superheroine Voyd, who made waves during the eventful performances of the Sands Gala, has been chosen as a new face for superheroes everywhere. Olympia has indicated that it will be taking on financial responsibility for Voyd's work until such time as the SRA is repealed, explaining that they are 'that confident that Voyd's actions will prove unequivocally the aid and benefit Supers bring to our communities'.
WELP. So much for hiring her ourselves... At least she's good at the job and portals are low collateral damage from Deavors' point of view.
Hard to say whether Evelyn is coming up with a plot that parallels
The Incredibles 2 or if this is relatively on the up-and-up. Tempting to investigate.
Cloverleaf Industries
[ ] Posthumously ruin Oliver Sansweet
DC 50
29+26+30+30(???)+6=116
Critical Success
Judge Doom has begun an extremely successful posthumous smear campaign on one Oliver Sansweet, said by many to be the man single-handedly responsible for ending the Golden Age and ushering in the SRA. Sansweet has been out of the public eye for decades now, but the recent defamation campaign has brought him back in the public consciousness as nothing more than a sniveling ambulance chaser and probably communist who should never have been saved from his attempted suicide by Mr. Incredible. This scathing rhetoric had the side effect of making Judge Doom look all the better in the eyes of superhero supporters.
Well that's a shitty move, but
very Judge Doomy. Also he seems to be getting some kind of Diplomacy boost that worries me. I think he's gonna leverage that. I
strongly recommend we keep trying to leverage Russ's Intrigue against Judge Doom; he's going to rebuild his position pretty easily at this rate if we don't find an effective way to undermine him.
???
[ ] Stage an attack on the LAPD
DC 50 (Reduced by ???)
48+35+23+10=116
Critical Success
Incredible news comes out of LA today as, in a seemingly impossible attack, frighteningly funny former Fearsome Five member Quackerjack kidnapped the entire LAPD in a single afternoon!
...
Wow.
Khan Industries
[ ] Lobby for the SRA
DC 100
41+35+40+6=122
Decent Success
Khan has taken a measured, careful approach towards disapproval of the SRA. Since Cape Suzette is an unincorporated territory, Khan only has to worry so much about the status of an American law. Nonetheless, his general distaste for vigilantism has led him to rally against what he describes as 'an inefficient and chaotic means of law enforcement'.
Oof. Not unexpected. Hopefully we can smooth things over with Khan even if we do take an anti-SRA stance.
[ ] Research fusion power
DC 150
4+23+32+10+4+30(???)=103
Failure
Khan Industries has hit a roadblock when it came to furthering their research into fusion power, or so they said in public reports.
Yeah, escalating DC's are rough. But I don't know just
who they have providing those bonuses. Has Khan got his own angle on
Blue Hawaii and GalFed tech? It's not impossible; he has a lot of shipping and aircraft, so the blockade may not fool his people indefinitely.
Laser Pirate
[ ] Rob ENCOM HQ
DC 90 (Reduced by ???)
66+27+20+40(???)=153
ENCOM HQ was broken into last week by what confused and disturbed bystanders are calling a 'digital pirate.' The so-called pirate sailed an enormous flying ship shaped like a skyscraper down Palos Verdes Drive into downtown LA, thus bypassing traffic, before staging a break-in by animatronic pirates. The 'shipscraper' or 'pirate building' was destroyed in the attack, but the Laser Pirate in charge escaped on some form of hover-dinghy. ENCOM is remaining tight-lipped about what, if anything, was stolen. Sadly, you may never know what-
[ ] Sell 'laser plans' to prominent individuals
DC 50
67+14=81
Never mind! You and several other prominent individuals around the country have received an email from one 'Captain Laser' offering to sell you an 'entirely unique' design that he recovered from ENCOM headquarters. Called the 'SHV 20905', he promises that you will find its like nowhere else, and a copy of the plans can be yours for the low low price of ten million dollars wired straight to a Swiss bank account! This is peanuts compared to what your company makes in a year, so… do you want to take him up on his offer? (A vote will be included in a later interlude.)
...Wacky.
Also,
that is a digitizing laser holy shit. Even if we don't use it immediately, the applications are staggering; we HAVE to have one.
ENCOM
[ ] Patch security holes
DC 90
96+58+34+8=196
Critical Success
ENCOM has rolled out a mandatory update for all systems to address the concerns that most consumers have with the platform. Following the break-in at their Headquarters, they seem to have decided to take security incredibly seriously. Their update, against all logic and reason, not only failed to brick the systems but actually delivered on what they were promising! ENCOM Legacy's updated digital security is actually pretty impressive, as much as you hate to admit it. Not even DoofOS is as resistant to viruses and trojans as Legacy now appears to be.
Ooof. They are doing
really well lately. I wonder who broke into their headquarters, though?
But yeah, we're gonna need to up our game. If upgrading DoofOS is a Stewardship action maybe we can put P&F on
that... though it might not be a Big Idea for them.
Random Event
1d100=56
Now that the Sands Casino has returned to normal operations, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have opened up a live show in the casino to near-universal acclaim. Their shows have been sold out every night and the livestreams of their performances are seeing millions of views online. While the St. Canard breakout is still in the back of many minds, the return of two great stars to the stage has helped a bit in restoring some of those lovable characters' reputations.
Ahh, very interesting.
