Alright then, I guess I'm bored enough to throw a serious plan for not going to Xanadu.
[] Plan July/August 2016 Theorizing (No Xanadu)
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National Actions
--[] Outfit PMC with energy weapons (Queen Lizzy)
--[] Reach out to Shego (Vanessa)
--[] Try to Collaborate With Xanatos on an Issue (Repeal SRA) (Goofy)
--[] Develop a new social media platform (Phineas and Ferb)
--[] Rebrand Insuricare (Hego)
--[] Buyout Lee Industries (LOVEMUFFIN)
--[] Investigate crime in LA (Agent Russ)
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Second Intrigue Action
--[] Investigate Toffee (Dickens Detective Agency)
--[] Dimensional Research (depends on the DC) (Ludivine Von Drake)
--[] Survey GalFed ship (Dr. Jumba Jookiba)
--[] Study Dance Magic
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Personal Actions
--[] Tinker with your Inators (Doofenshmirtz)
--[] Read your Spellbook (Doofenshmirtz)
--[] Summon Malifishmertz (Doofenshmirtz)
--[] Hire the Dickens (Doofenshmirtz)
--[] Get an apartment (Genghis Khan)
--[] Set up a trap (Wile E. Coyote)
--[] Reorganize OWCA (Francis Monogram)
--[] Search for an Instructor (Dennis the Duck)
--[] Psychoanalyze (TECHNOR)
---[] Stanley
--[] Play some video games (Max)
--[] Reinforce Kronos Corp contacts (Mirage)
--[] Study magic with Feldrake (Janna)
Uhh, now I'll defend my choices, I guess?
Martial: I think we've been sitting on Energy Weapons for far too long and it has the lowest DC I feel comfortable with. If Dino cavalry has a lower DC I'd be happy to take Khan out of finding an apartment and just stick him in their.
Diplomacy: Maybe reaching out to Shego will give Vanessa good experience? I think working with Xanatos to repeal the SRA will boost his opinion of us, and lower our chance of failure.
Stewardship: Phineas and Ferb for Social Media has been talked about already. I think Hego can deal with rebranding Insuricare, he managed with buying it out. I'm not sure about LOVEMUFFIN on Lee Industries. With XP they would only need to roll a 13 or above. Surely they can't fuck
this up, can they?
Intrigue: I want to poke LA already and Russ has the greatest chance. We need to get Doom on the backfoot. I don't know what to do with our second Intrigue action, none of the DCs are comfortable enough for me to go for them. There probably is a search for Marco/Star that I guess we could stick Tobe on. We need to investigate Toffee for the auction and the Dickens are probably the best choice.
Learning: I want to open the Galfed mystery box. Jumba has a bonus of 101 before his loyalty bonus from the Vacation expires when July/August is done. It might have useful computing or stuff. I put Ludivine on Dimensional tech because it sounds difficult. I'd rather research AI with Wendy.
Occult: We don't really need a hero on that and hopefully it will boost future Doof's Occult stat.
Personal: Tinker so we don't mess with Candace, Spellbook and Grunkle so we can Occult, Dickens because new Intrigue hero. I put Genghis Khan on apartment because I don't know what else to do with him, we might need to Dino cavalry before he can get a dino steed. Setting up a trap could improve Doof's COMPLETELY EXPECTED trait, which given Toffee, might be a good idea. OWCA needs to be reorganized already. Dennis can raise his Martial even
MORE! We should probably get Stanley out of prison already. Video games for a busy action. Reinforcing
Kronos Olympia contacts with Mirage to set the ground work for reaching out to Evelyn Deavor. Janna on studying magic so she can boost her Occult score.
The reason why I did this was because although I would be willing to go to Xanadu, I think options are necessary. I do admit that we probably would be in a better position for September/October if we don't do Xanadu.
Thanks for the input, here my thoughts on these issues.
Lizzy actively hurts a region where without her we only have a bonus of 28. With her we would have 23. Remember Chicken Itza and all those low rolls that could have been averted if we hadn't sent the B-Team? The only bonus in Chicken Itza that was
worse than your proposal for Xanadu is Occult. Which was at -5. Again, remember how well Chicken Itza went?
We had to wait 2 or so turns until we could collaborate with Xanatos after we reached out to him. We aren't going to get anything out of Shego.
LA Crime is more important because Doom and ENCOM are based in that area. We don't know their mood because we haven't actually investigated. Besides, Shego might say something about the drug cartel when we reach out to her. I doubt it, but it would be a nice bonus for waiting.
Investigating Tobe has, does, and always will take only one action. Taking it now is not rushing. Saying that we are in the process of gathering information makes us look weaker. Having already investigated makes us look proactive.
We do need more Martial heroes? Most of our Martial actions are tech-based, which Genghis Khan can't do very well. Hilariously enough, Dennis is pretty useful and I would like to cultivate him further.
Even investigations can go fucky if operatives of different agencies don´t recognize each other - that´s Intrigue 101, pal.
Plus,those drugs most likely directly interfere in Shegos ability to make business in afflicted area, meaning that she does or at least should care.
Yes, and that won't happen. It would take a critical failure for something nearly half as bad as you described to happen. Russ wouldn't fight that publicly he isn't stupid. Mind you, the only way to have a critical failure would be rolling a Natural One because Russ would have a bonus of 58, well above the ability to critically fail at 45 and below.
I doubt that they do much. In the DVV:Gridlocked fluff docs it is established that Shego gives just about zero fucks about non-powered individuals. It's Ancapistan but with superpowers not money. If Shego did care, then she would have already infiltrated it. She has a much better Intrigue score than us anyways, and probably more Intrigue heroes she can delegate to.
