- Location
- Chile
The only thing I don't like of this plan is Hank not calling his family.
Both because it gives us info on Texas and because I'm curious how his family would react to him suddenly being CEO.
FATHER QUEST - A Cartoon Network: Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest Cross Over
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Both because it gives us info on Texas and because I'm curious how his family would react to him suddenly being CEO.
I'm guessing Megalomart didn't burn down and Hank was just done with the place. A man with his experience getting bossed around by disrespectful teens... yeah. I can see him leaving.
Lifeandlice
Practitioning side-character
- Location
- Usa
[X] Operation: D.E.A.T.H. and T.A.X.E.S. (Doing Everything Acceptable To Help Take An eXceptional Enterprise Skyward)
Fanart: Fuck Them Kids
Always Watching
Definitely NOT an InventCo shill
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hmmm, if he insists on keeping his toiletry theme I nominate
THE PLUNGE
As his new title
THE PLUNGER, surely?
- Location
- USA
The Royal Flush
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Not super high priority given all the capitalism, warlords and monsters causing actual damage.
The Swim's infrastructure has already mostly collapsed in our absence. Probably shouldn't let it get any worse.
Well, Mandy's a mover and shaker in the supernatural world, which might outweigh her being a kid. Mandark would absolutely grind our gears though, and Eddie and Chris lack sufficient resources to be worth the complete lack of trustworthiness.
Tax breaks are nice but probably better to get our company fixed before we start remembering to pay them.
High priority, even if money's not as valuable right now.
Potentially an in with Stormalong and Marzipan, not to mention the various candy arcana that shows up sometimes. Probably best to get cash flow before measuring conversion rates though.
Ironically, it kind of is, given the Stewardship/Learning co-King of the Diamond Authority is obsessed with it.
Probably a good idea at some point.
Their Arching policies and tiering system would mesh decently well.
Yet more Marzipan influence, even if we're incredibly unlikely to recreate the Fourth Flavor or anything.
*shrug* chicks dig giant robots?
Shouldn't be too hard this close to Texas.
We're not really in a position to exploit them right now.
Probably good to keep an eye on the fam.
Moltar is a putz, but he's enslaving kids so he can't be all bad.
Not enough naked characters to be worth it really.
Construct additional pylons.
Our Rage is is a pretty good spot right now.
Honestly, his social actions aren't going to be too useful until after the initial recruitment blitz and I don't want him thinking too hard about our deal until he's committed more.
No.
[X] Plan: The Responsible Things(And A Giant Robot)
The KND were barely a threat even when there was halfway competent leadership and a guiding spiritual principle. Even if we're not sticking to strict loredocs, they're going to splinter into a bunch of ineffectual cells and mostly get gobbled up by other kings anyway. The actual threats (Sector V and High Command mostly) aren't actually in contact with the rabble rousers and seem locked behind personals.
[X] Plan: Setting the Stage
-[X] Smash KND Holdouts
--[X] Toiletnator
-[X] Reach Out to Corporate Competition
--[X] Hank
-[X] Restructure Adult Co.
-[X] Catch Up on the News
-[X] Build a Giant Robot
-[X] Find a Wizard
-[X] Check in on your Sister-In-Law (Father)
-[X] Call the Moonbase (Father)
-[X] Go through your rolodex (Father)
-[X] Work on Sir Toasty (Father)
-[X] Check on Peggy and Bobby (Hank)
-[X] DESTROY THE KND (or whats left) (Toiletnator)
This is a variation of Operation: D.E.A.T.H. and T.A.X.E.S.. Basically I believe that the various Megacorporations are more powerful than the government and thus prioritize that.
I also make Hank check in with his family to allow us to some minor reconnaissance on one of our rivals.
-[X] Smash KND Holdouts
--[X] Toiletnator
-[X] Reach Out to Corporate Competition
--[X] Hank
-[X] Restructure Adult Co.
-[X] Catch Up on the News
-[X] Build a Giant Robot
-[X] Find a Wizard
-[X] Check in on your Sister-In-Law (Father)
-[X] Call the Moonbase (Father)
-[X] Go through your rolodex (Father)
-[X] Work on Sir Toasty (Father)
-[X] Check on Peggy and Bobby (Hank)
-[X] DESTROY THE KND (or whats left) (Toiletnator)
This is a variation of Operation: D.E.A.T.H. and T.A.X.E.S.. Basically I believe that the various Megacorporations are more powerful than the government and thus prioritize that.
I also make Hank check in with his family to allow us to some minor reconnaissance on one of our rivals.
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Omakes: Lucky Lydia Makes Some Friends
- Location
- Peterborough, NH, USA
Lucky Lydia Meets Some New Friends
Lydia smiled her classic smile as she bent down to pick a 16-leaf clover. 4 times as lucky as a four-leaf! Sure, things had been... weird lately, even if nobody seemed to be sure what was going on exactly, but things weren't that bad!
Sure, she hadn't seen Bernice or Bernice's mom recently and her mom and dad wouldn't tell her what happened... but she was sure there was a good reason!
Anyway, she was kicking a familiar diamond around, when she noticed some scuffed up kids acting weird. They looked like they hadn't had any fun in... a while. So se went over to say hi.
"I'm telling you. Father's back! He blew up one of those big monsters rolling around in his old turf, and he's probably pulling the old Adult Villains back together right now!" a blond girl claimed fearfully.
"And what are we supposed to do about it? Sis isn't answering our calls, and none of the other cells are in any shape to try and take him on right now." a blond boy noted, eyes hard. He had a 363 written in marker on his... hat? Lydia was going to call it a hat.
"Well, I guess there's one upside to the world turning sideways and giving itself a good shake. The old you would have had us try and take him on ourselves." a boy in a trapper hat commented, the hat covering his hair and eyes alike. He was bobbing a yo-yo up and down with the sort of casual ease Lydia only saw in people who practiced.
"I'm not dumb enough to try and fight the guy who obliterated Grandfather when he worked up the motivation to actually try." the blond boy scowled, trying to tug his helmet down tighter on his head. "For now, we need more recruits. They'll have to train on the mission, but, well, we don't have any better options."
Lydia was missing a lot of context, so she did what she did best and pushed through the strangeness with a grin on her face. "Uh, hey there." the trio started, but relaxed when they saw her, well, somewhat. "You guys new in the neighborhood?"
The trio glanced at each other. "You could say that, yeah. You know where the kids hang out around here?" the blond boy asked.
"Well, there's the clubhouse, but a bunch of kids have, uh, moved away recently, so my mom wants me home soon. We could play some video games if you want! Feel free to take some of the leprechaun gold too. It's not really worth anything these days, though I can't say I'm sad about the way candy's gone up in the world!" Lydia said with a bit more cheer than she really felt. While they had plenty of money, or well, 'money', she'd only bothered getting the games because there wasn't anybody to play with these days.
The girl mouthed 'leprechaun gold?' in confusion, while the boy nodded at her. "Sure, lead the way."
A few minutes walk found them at Lydia's house, where she was unsurprised to find her parents watching the TV, concerned expressions on their faces. "Hey mom, I found some new friends! We're gonna play video games!" she called, not waiting for a response that wouldn't come and dragged the other three kids to her room.
"Huh. Nice set." trapper hat boy nodded at her Funstation, Gamechild, and perfectly normal computer. She could play games with it just fine, but the Internet was off. Something her mother had insisted on, though she wouldn't explain why. ...She was sure there was a good reason though.
"Thanks..." Lydia's facade cracked slightly as she realized this was the first time she'd had anybody over in nearly a month. She pushed it down. Everything would be fine.
"Call me..." he glanced at the other boy in the room, who nodded at him. "Numbuh 84."
"Some kind of codename?" Lydia asked.
"Yeah. I'm 363, and this is 83." the blond boy noted.
"Uh, listen Lydia, how much do you know about what's going on out there?" 83 asked.
"...Not a lot." Lydia admitted. "Something's gone wrong, but nobody can tell me what or why. Heck, different news channels are saying some of the same things, and completely disagreeing on others, and any two of them will agree and disagree on different things."
"You watch the news?" 363 asked, a hint of suspicion in his eyes.
"My parents don't do much besides watch the news these days." Lydia sighed, her usual easy grin fading fast.
"Hm, well if it's information you want, I think we can do that much..."
AN: Lucky Lydia is from this particular CN Pilot. You know Milo Murphy? Well, she's the opposite of that. She literally has a pile of leprechaun gold outside her house because she keeps getting hit by rainbows every time it rains, and once kicked around a diamond the size of an orange like a rock while bored. I imagine she'd have garbage stats like the Toiletnator(though she has the excuse of being like 10 at most, probably younger, and she can be pretty observant when she wants to be) but have a special Trait:
The Anti-Murphy. Lydia leads a charmed life. Anything that can go right, will go right. It's a good thing she's a good-natured kid, or else she could probably cause a lot of havoc, rather than the odd bout of mischief when bored. When assigned to an action, add 10 to the critical success chance, and lower the critical failure chance by 10, or to the limit of the success and failure chances.
Which, as you can imagine, would be horrifically overpowered if she was set on a high success chance action. A 15% chance to crit means that a double crit is 2.25%, as opposed to a 0.25% chance for a 5% single crit to double crit, and if she learns to properly harness her abilities it could get to insane heights. Let's say she was set on an action with an 80% chance of success. 8% chance to crit succeed means a 18% chance for her, or a 3.24% chance to double crit. Honestly, she'd probably be mostly useful for handling crit fail debuffs.
Her more reliable trait would probably be something like:
Tumbleweed of the Strange. Lydia has a habit of picking up unusual and rare materials seemingly from nowhere. She won't be able to, say, randomly stumble across the Mona Lisa, but if you need gold, titanium, diamonds, etc.? You'll find it or the means to purchase it readily available. Significant income/generic resource harvest boost.
Now, this might seem really strong, but Lydia is a Slice of Life protagonist, and her 'Villains' (for a given value of Villains) aren't evil enough to qualify for Aku's boost, so while she's not doing great like most of the world, she hasn't lost like most of the heroes. Not the least because she's not above doing something a little morally dubious under peer pressure.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I hope we can get some robot Jones content, it's such a weird little blip on the map of cruel network. It's arguable that Robot Jones is a hero, and the fact he counts as a king is fascinating.
- Location
- United Kigdom
I like how you show Father's personality; I've never seen someone type up his speech pattern in a way that feels like I can really hear him
The Rage Mechanic gave me an idea for a potential omake that I might try writing at some point
[X] Operation: D.E.A.T.H. and T.A.X.E.S. (Doing Everything Acceptable To Help Take An eXceptional Enterprise Skyward)
The Rage Mechanic gave me an idea for a potential omake that I might try writing at some point
[X] Operation: D.E.A.T.H. and T.A.X.E.S. (Doing Everything Acceptable To Help Take An eXceptional Enterprise Skyward)
Words not to take out of context
The original planned ending of the show was for Robot Jones to get fed up and go Skynet (hence the title: Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?). This is just fulfilling the promise.
Cruel Network has a lot of heroes just effectively give up or grow desperate. Frankelda, Juniper Lee and Coop are also full blown Kings, Sector V has splintered and joined forces with various Kings, the Plumbers and Secret Scientist are helping Black Knight in a desperate attempt to restore normalcy, Nicole Watterson is being employed by Black Hat after she left Elmore, Wert is the Beast's new Woodsman, Eddy has become a flat out grifter and con man, Flapjack still dutifully serves K'nuckles, Puffy Ami Yumi now work for Aku...
It's bad to say the least. Really, really bad. Now these could all be changed in Fatherquest, but still it gives a good idea whats been happening to the heroes of CN.
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- Location
- Everywhere
Since we're likely gonna be reaching out to other Kings and learning about the world in the coming turns, there might be a benefit in getting Father Warm and Fuzzy
Gold adorned man
Stay true to your belief, and act for it.
- Location
- Floor of Religion
- Pronouns
- Nonsencioul
(X) The Responsible Things(And A Giant Robot) Woo ! Battlemech! Here we go!
- Location
- United Kingdom
[X] Operation: D.E.A.T.H. and T.A.X.E.S. (Doing Everything Acceptable To Help Take An eXceptional Enterprise Skyward)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Uh, I know that was the theoretical ending, but that's not canon as far as I can tell to cruel network. He's still pretty much just like he was during the shows run, just running a robot refuge. The reason he isn't living in his old town is because it got invaded by gems since it was in Canada
- Location
- United Kigdom