Obviously, this is tentative, pending more info from the quest, and interludes, but so far, I'm thinking...

Martial - probably [ ] Outfit PMC with energy weapons
Diplo - [ ] Recruit Wendy Wower & [ ] Reach Out to Shego
Stewardship - [ ] Dinosaur Farming & [ ] Social Media (would love to squeeze in [ ] Move Castle Doofhawk to Doofania soon)
Intrigue - [ ] Covert Espionage against the NMEIZ & [ ] Spy on Employees or [ ] Subvert the Hawk
Learning - [ ] Translation Software + [ ] Human Genetics
Occult - [ ] Search for magical individuals
LOVEMUFFIN - [ ] Coffee Machine research
Dickens - [ ] Following up on any leads on Marco/Star

Basically, trying to get the PMC upgraded, work on outreach to our closest neighbor/prep for reaching out to the Zaibatsu, work on the food problem and continue our current efforts.

As for the Coffee Machine, well, we brought something to the gala that no one expected, so let's continue on that trend. Besides, to cement our alliance, I'm sure Xanatos would love something that makes coffee that's just out of this world.

I anticipate moving on Dimensional Research + Galfed Computers the following turn, possibly.
 
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Martial - probably [ ] Outfit PMC with energy weapons
It depends on the other options that show up but I'm not opposed to it. Pretty low dc as well so Kahn could work on a personal or something.
Diplo - [ ] Recruit Wendy Wower & [ ] Reach Out to Shego
Shego definitely. Not sold on wower though. We have so many learning heros at the moment. Probably other things have higher priority.
Stewardship - [ ] Dinosaur Farming & [ ] Social Media
Love both of these. Absolute shame we didn't get social last turn.
(would love to squeeze in [ ] Move Castle Doofhawk to Doofania soon
Me too. We might need to take the comedy supply chain one to lower dc more but we're getting close.
Intrigue - [ ] Covert Espionage against the NMEIZ & [ ] Spy on Employees or [ ] Subvert the Hawk
Depends on dcs and the interludes. This category is going to be the most likely to change based on what happens. I'd like subvert Hawk but it seems many others don't care about it at all. Might just have to give up on it.
Learning - [ ] Translation Software + [ ] Human Genetics
Both solid choices though I'm interested in that new energy source from the ship.
Occult - [ ] Search for magical individuals
Probably not. We just recruited a occult hero. And I think people are seriously going to push for magical defenses next turn. Or maybe coven depending on kitsunes stats.
LOVEMUFFIN - [ ] Coffee Machine research
Eh maybe. I'd be fine with throwing them at acquiring more businesses. They seem to be great at it. But it all depends on the dcs.
Dickens - [ ] Following up on any leads on Marco/Star
Maybe. Probably not the high level option. Not sure we can afford it anymore.
 
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While I don't disagree with the point that we should probably prepare for firearms, I do feel this last part reflects a couple of premises that aren't true. First, it treating the other kings like they are playing x-quest. They aren't, they are acting as their selves, and this means that they tend to do things that are more personality-oriented. Second, while Toffee may have been making inroads into our world, it was one of many. He hadn't even tried to majorly sell his corn to other kings until about four months ago. I find it very believable that he could have not gotten guns. Again, he's smart enough to, but I suspect the bulk of his actions were focused on his fight with Metaworld previously.
Maybe.

On the other hand, he wouldn't have such a broad territorial base on Earth if he weren't doing something with it. He'd have noticed quickly, even if he didn't already know, that Earth weapons are surprisingly powerful and damaging, with much lower barriers to entry than magic. And they'd be quite the force multiplier for his minions.

Even given that he's got other, much higher priorities, this would still be low-hanging fruit for him.

problem is we need translation to deal with our northern nehbors post haste and we NEED that extra dimensional tech yesterday once we have that we can protect ourselves from Toffy and attack him as wellfinaly putting us on an even playing field.

we have too many fires and not enough buckets.
I think that right now attacking him would be a bad idea, even if we could. Unless he has really good scrying on us, which is admittedly possible, he doesn't realize we're actively gearing up to fight him. If he's worried about an entirely different enemy who has few or no distractions (Metaworld), he may very well not prioritize hitting us if we don't actively strike at him. For the next few turns, building up our resource base and augmenting our firepower (magical and physical) might be a better use of our resources.
 
Shego definitely. Not sold on wower though. We have so many learning heros at the moment. Probably other things have higher priority.
Love both of these. Absolute shame we didn't get social last turn.

We have learning heroes, certainly, but I'm interested in her for three main reasons. The first is that she is likely to be an AI/Computing specialist, since she was the one who first devised the positronic brain tech that Funtelligence's products are all based on, and AI remains one of our learning areas with prohibitively high DC. That, and I think she'd be quite useful for the Galfed Computer stuff, and any looking into Encom stuff we do.

Second, she's likely to be decent at diplo, meaning we can give Goofy a break to finish his degree, among other things.

Third, I've mentioned about her familiarity with San Fransokyo, since one of the CEOs is an old lab partner of hers. Having her in our employ could be a nice bit of leverage/pressure on Funtelligence.

Probably not. We just recruited a occult hero. And I think people are seriously going to push for magical defenses next turn. Or maybe coven depending on kitsunes stats.

If her stats are high enough, I don't mind shooting for Coven. If not, defenses are a good option.
 
Not only is she an AI genius with probably decent Diplo, she also already has an educational TV show aimed for children. Coopting that (for EVIL!) and expanding it (like introducing alien tech or something) should boost our polularity and appeal to both those super kids, or their super parents.
 
Which is why I want to start working on the Human Genetics research tree before or at the turn we reach out to the Zaibatsu
Seems like Sycorax already has pretty good human genetics research with considering the clone thing and
Companies such as Sycorax and Gen-U-Tech have both published papers on the 'metahuman genome' to examine the natural mechanisms of some powers, though again, many of the ones that are more esoteric in nature remain poorly understood.
We'd need more than that if we want to cure the parasynth infection.
Not only is she an AI genius with probably decent Diplo, she also already has an educational TV show aimed for children. Coopting that (for EVIL!) and expanding it (like introducing alien tech or something)
The operating principles behind our super-tech is probably a bit too advanced for her normal target audience. We could probably use her to lower the DC on Campaign For Flubber.
 
What are the odds of Dan from Dan Vs being a recruitable unit?
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Dan

This article is about the character, you may be looking for the episode or the creator. "There's an old saying, 'Revenge is a dish best served immediately!'"– Dan, "New Mexico" Daniel ''Dan'' Mandel (Curtis Armstrong) is the titular anti-heroic main protagonist of Dan Vs. His main goal in the...
 
We have learning heroes, certainly, but I'm interested in her for three main reasons. The first is that she is likely to be an AI/Computing specialist, since she was the one who first devised the positronic brain tech that Funtelligence's products are all based on, and AI remains one of our learning areas with prohibitively high DC. That, and I think she'd be quite useful for the Galfed Computer stuff, and any looking into Encom stuff we do.

Second, she's likely to be decent at diplo, meaning we can give Goofy a break to finish his degree, among other things.

Third, I've mentioned about her familiarity with San Fransokyo, since one of the CEOs is an old lab partner of hers. Having her in our employ could be a nice bit of leverage/pressure on Funtelligence.

All completely valid and good points.

Please don't misunderstand. I'm not saying we shouldn't recruit her at all. I'm just not sure about next turn.

I don't particularly like using national actions for recruitments. The last two times were von drake, who was on a time limit, and kitsune, who fills a couple roles being diplomacy/occult and may have been referred to in the prophesy.

And we just got another learning hero in Janus Lee.

I don't think there is any particular rush to get wower right this instant. If there isn't anything else worthwhile in diplomacy then sure no problem. I just think other stuff might be more important.

...or maybe everyone will disagree with me and we will get her this turn. Who knows. It's just my opinion.
 
What are the odds of Dan from Dan Vs being a recruitable unit?
dan-vs.fandom.com

Dan

This article is about the character, you may be looking for the episode or the creator. "There's an old saying, 'Revenge is a dish best served immediately!'"– Dan, "New Mexico" Daniel ''Dan'' Mandel (Curtis Armstrong) is the titular anti-heroic main protagonist of Dan Vs. His main goal in the...
I would say none, due to the series not being part of Disney
 
Seems like Sycorax already has pretty good human genetics research with considering the clone thing and we'd need more than that if we want to cure the parasynth infection.

The reports did say that they're only researching the superhuman genome. Did they ever come to think that they can fight fire with fire like what happened in BH6 canon?
 
Maybe.

On the other hand, he wouldn't have such a broad territorial base on Earth if he weren't doing something with it. He'd have noticed quickly, even if he didn't already know, that Earth weapons are surprisingly powerful and damaging, with much lower barriers to entry than magic. And they'd be quite the force multiplier for his minions.

Even given that he's got other, much higher priorities, this would still be low-hanging fruit for him.

I think that right now attacking him would be a bad idea, even if we could. Unless he has really good scrying on us, which is admittedly possible, he doesn't realize we're actively gearing up to fight him. If he's worried about an entirely different enemy who has few or no distractions (Metaworld), he may very well not prioritize hitting us if we don't actively strike at him. For the next few turns, building up our resource base and augmenting our firepower (magical and physical) might be a better use of our resources.

those resources and firepower mean nothing if we can't deploy them. Our priority should be securing a root to Toffy so we CAN strike at him directly then build up our forces to take him down.
 
those resources and firepower mean nothing if we can't deploy them. Our priority should be securing a root to Toffy so we CAN strike at him directly then build up our forces to take him down.
I don't think there's a viable path to 'quickly' striking down Toffee. His domains aren't just extradimensional, they're large, and they probably don't have any obvious single points of failure to take out aside from Toffee himself, who is immortal.

I'm worried about the risk of ending up in a situation where we have the technology to launch a pinprick attack against Toffee and it only ends up drawing his attention as "that one Earth guy who actually has the means to get at me and seriously inconvenience me."

It can be very dangerous to enter a war with a powerful enemy before properly mobilizing one's own forces; such conflicts cannot be reduced to a speedrun.
 
Definitely not too advanced for our target audience ie the possible Hero Units, or as I said the parents of said Hero Units.
Why would they want to work for us because of a show trying to teach children an advanced understanding of quantum physics?

Wowzer is good for promoting things to the general public. We could have her act in commercials for the dinosaur park. We could have her make documentary series or commercials promoting things like flubber, greevil and a dinosaur zoo. We could also have her try to improve our public perception by making a documentary on Doof and his rule. Those videos would be targeted at adults and not part of the children's show.

If we want to interest people with out tech we could just do things like make a showcase, make a presentation at a tech expo or publish papers on the topic. Anyone that maintains an interest in the topic will get news of it soon enough.
The reports did say that they're only researching the superhuman genome. Did they ever come to think that they can fight fire with fire like what happened in BH6 canon?
We only know what they have publicly released. We don't know the details of their private research and secret experiments.
 
I don't think there's a viable path to 'quickly' striking down Toffee. His domains aren't just extradimensional, they're large, and they probably don't have any obvious single points of failure to take out aside from Toffee himself, who is immortal.

I'm worried about the risk of ending up in a situation where we have the technology to launch a pinprick attack against Toffee and it only ends up drawing his attention as "that one Earth guy who actually has the means to get at me and seriously inconvenience me."

It can be very dangerous to enter a war with a powerful enemy before properly mobilizing one's own forces; such conflicts cannot be reduced to a speedrun.

do you know what would be worse? being " that guy on earth who knows I'm a theart can probably get to me in time but can't right now"

I'm not advocating to Leroy him right now. I just want acess so we can start preparing the groundwork. Hell getting a portal up in running let's us start intriuge actions in his backyard without him possibly knowing. A scientific portal is an out of context issue for him so he'd have no reason to suscpect infiltration or sabatoge.

I want to be able to strike back WHEN Toffy decides to start shit. I don't want to be stuck on the defensive until we get a tricky tech completed and proliferated. Because there's almost certainly more actions needed to send our full army though.

we need to be ready for when shit goes down . Waiting on it means we continue to be sitting ducks with no way to fight back.
 
We only know what they have publicly released. We don't know the details of their private research and secret experiments.
I was going to suggest to do Espionage on Sycorax at some time, but I realized that the action has a DC of 120.

Then I thought of doing Espionage on Cloverleaf industries, though its DC is 20 higher than Sycorax. If Tooned in activates, Russ would make it a 1/3 chance of success.

If NMEIZ has a DC like those, then we really need to up our Intrigue game.
 
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