Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest

What sort of tone should I shoot for with this Quest?

  • Go as crack fueled as you can we want Ambush Bug, Snowflame and Duckseid

    Votes: 30 7.7%
  • Go for something silly but keep a little bit of reason

    Votes: 31 7.9%
  • Adam West Camp

    Votes: 27 6.9%
  • Balanced as all things should be

    Votes: 195 50.0%
  • Mostly serious but not self-involvedly so

    Votes: 73 18.7%
  • Dark and brooding but with light at the end of the tunnel

    Votes: 12 3.1%
  • We're evil and we don't want anyone to be happy

    Votes: 22 5.6%

  • Total voters
    390
  • Poll closed .
We have three (IMO) good options for Carol.

1) Drones, 2) Personal plane for Lex, 3) research planes. Let's focus votes on one of those to avoid the situation with each of them having few votes with no job for Carol in the end.
 
While it is not certain that the actions related to Talia might make it on the list of actions we want done this turn, I do think we could discuss them a bit.

To be more specific... do we trust Talia al Ghul enough\believe that she won't stab us in the back to consider giving her resources or to take her under our protection?
I personally do not see taila as a loyal ally. however I think that if we are her only option she will smart enough to follow order ( at least until she can find a way out).
 
Well, if improving Carol's cooperation score with Lex is a goal, researching Improve Planes with her and Lex would be a good idea. With her -15 DC, the DC would be -9. However, I think this turn should be about gearing up for (but not attacking) the League. Building the orbital weapon might not be a bad idea, as would improving our own weapons and then incorporating them into our forces. Plus, getting government cooperation before we go in for the attack. Perhaps build the construction company and then secure Metropolis (works well at the same time).

I think we need to maximize our chances of victory as the League's large penalty to DC basically can make any action an auto-fail.
 
We have three (IMO) good options for Carol.

1) Drones, 2) Personal plane for Lex, 3) research planes. Let's focus votes on one of those to avoid the situation with each of them having few votes with no job for Carol in the end.

Honestly we should put Lex-Rebecca-Carol together, since we only need 0.1 and 0.2 more Cooperation to get 1.0. Seriously, we need Carol to realize magitek would be an amazing boon.
 
Our highest priority here is to ensure that the investigation into Sasha Glynul goes as well as possible. Therefore, we really should have Luthor-Mercy-Rebecca on that action, as it kills two birds with one stone: ensures that the investigation goes well and get us 1 more action as a success here should raise Carstairs cooperation score to 1.
 
Well, if improving Carol's cooperation score with Lex is a goal, researching Improve Planes with her and Lex would be a good idea. With her -15 DC, the DC would be -9. However, I think this turn should be about gearing up for (but not attacking) the League.
I don't think that other projects have a much lower chance of giving + to coop score. if we do pair Crol and Luthor, I prefer to do it on high DC stuff

Honestly we should put Lex-Rebecca-Carol together, since we only need 0.1 and 0.2 more Cooperation to get 1.0. Seriously, we need Carol to realize magitek would be an amazing boon.
I don't like this idea. Lex + Carol now and Lex+Rebecca later (or vice versa) looks like a more secure way of raising coop score. And if we do this, then only personal vehicle makes sense - plane with magical protection.

Our highest priority here is to ensure that the investigation into Sasha Glynul goes as well as possible. Therefore, we really should have Luthor-Mercy-Rebecca on that action, as it kills two birds with one stone: ensures that the investigation goes well and get us 1 more action as a success here should raise Carstairs cooperation score to 1.
This may be a good option but I don't think that this investigation is this important. I am actually considering sending only Mercy there and use Luthor and Rebecca elsewhere.
 
[ ] Donate to the public

Give the people hope and shit.

[ ] Patrol Metropolis with security forces
[ ] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[ ] Equip your forces with improved armor

Begin the Metropolis war machine.

[ ] Improve weapons

Give this to Ivo and it meshes well with the martial actions.

[ ] Work with the Government

We need to be putting just about everything we have to defeating the League and Ms.???.

[ ] Investigate Sasha Glynul

Extreme importance here since we already know the other is a socialite/assassin.

[ ] Give Talia resources

Easy to do and we really don't have time for someone like her to hold any grudges against us.

[ ] Sell close to home

Goes well with the Martial and Learning actions.
 
[ ] Donate to the public

Give the people hope and shit.

[ ] Patrol Metropolis with security forces
[ ] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[ ] Equip your forces with improved armor

Begin the Metropolis war machine.

[ ] Improve weapons

Give this to Ivo and it meshes well with the martial actions.

[ ] Work with the Government

We need to be putting just about everything we have to defeating the League and Ms.???.

[ ] Investigate Sasha Glynul

Extreme importance here since we already know the other is a socialite/assassin.

[ ] Give Talia resources

Easy to do and we really don't have time for someone like her to hold any grudges against us.

[ ] Sell close to home

Goes well with the Martial and Learning actions.
Assuming this gets voted in this form. Where will you put Carol? Pamela doesn't have a great fit either (but donate to public is OK). I think we can make her sell toys to the government but this wastes her bonus.
 
[X] Learn about magic
[X] Investigate Sasha Glynul
[X] Investigate Nanda Parbat
[X] Attack Nanda Parbat
[X] Begin development of combat exosuit
[X] Elaine Marsh-Morton
[X] Integrate advances in armor into exosuits
[X] Work with the Government
[X] Create a construction company
 
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This may be a good option but I don't think that this investigation is this important. I am actually considering sending only Mercy there and use Luthor and Rebecca elsewhere.

We're going to have to agree to disagree here. The investigation is very important for us because it is the fastest way we can end this war that doesn't involve trying to assault Nanda Parbat (which, as I've said either runs the risk of failure or not being thorough enough if we do it too fast or runs the risk of giving us 2 Nemeses, which is going to put all other plans aside from dealing with our Nemeses to a halt, if we try to stack the deck in our favour by taking actions that could support an assault on Nanda Parbat).

Also, there's this quote from the author, which makes me think that Mercy alone won't be enough to ensure the investigation goes well...

??? has four actions they can use per turn. ??? tends to use at least three per turn burying evidence and hiding who they are since they know that if they get caught their death will be slow painful and final.
 
[X] Fortify Metropolis
[X] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[X] Patrol Metropolis with security forces
[X] Donate to the public
[X] Work with the Government
[X] Give Talia resources
[X] Investigate Sasha Glynul
[X] Elaine Marsh-Morton
[X] The A.M.A.Z.O. project
 
3 actions that I ask vote for no matter what your other priorities are. Those are to give good jobs for Ivo, Carol, Pamela

[] Improve weapons - I prefer this to replace A.M.A.Z.O for this turn. This is job for Ivo. This is good for war. Getting both A.M.A.Z.O and this is fine but getting nor this nor A.M.A.Z.O will be a disaster.
[] Research botany - Let Pamela do her thing at least once, please. We'll always have "more pressing " matters than botany.
[] Anything plane related - I'll vote for any which will get traction first
 
So how is Talia going to work exactly? Will she be giving her bonus to our investigate roll(s)?
Talia can be assigned to help with certain actions during the hero vote similarly to how the pheromone spray can be assigned to certain actions. She can refuse an action but if she chooses to help you she'll give you a bonus to your initial roll and any subsequent rolls resulting from the first one.
 
[X] Patrol Metropolis with security forces
[X] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[X] Sell close to home
[X] Design and produce self-flying planes
[X] Create a construction company
[X] Improve weapons
[X] Research botany
[X] Donate to the public
[X] Equip your forces with improved armor

Decided to vote for two aircraft related actions. They have great synergy with each other and improve planes is OK heroless and is an additional option for Pamela\Ivo. I don't think that Lex's personal plane should be designed without him so I prefer to delay it till the time when we'll be able to afford to do Lex+Carol on it.

Edit: Research planes got no love, construction company works nicely.
 
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[X] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[X] Equip your forces with improved armor
[X] Work with the Government
[X] Sell close to home
[X] Design and produce self-flying planes
[X] Create a construction company
[X] Investigate Sasha Glynul
[X] Improve weapons
[X] Research botany
 
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[X] Work with the Government
[X] Reach out to the DEO
[X] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[X] Build Rebecca Carstairs a research lab for magic
[X] Investigate Sasha Glynul
[X] Elaine Marsh-Morton
[X] Learn about magic
[X] The A.M.A.Z.O. project
[X] Go green
 
[X] Patrol Metropolis with security forces
[X] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[X] Equip your forces with improved armor
[X] Work with the Government
[X] Sell close to home
[X] Investigate Sasha Glynul
[X] Improve weapons
[X] Give Talia resources
[X] Donate to the public
 
Qudrim8054's Salvador "Sal" Kobayashi for the Earth 27 contest
Okay, here I go King Crimson. Just so you know, you brought upon yourself this overambition of mine with your decleration of Earth 27.
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Earth 27: Salvador "Sal" Kobayashi

Salvador Kobayashi is a Japanese-American CEO of one of the largest companies in of all of Mid-West America, which is the leading company in the research fields of alternative energy and medicine in the entire western world called "Kobayashi Labs". He usually doesn't get involved much in the scientific fields of the job, relying more on the knowledge of his workers, while he runs the more bussiness and money side of things.

Salvador is an attractive man in his early 30's (32 to be percise), being a tall man who stands at a height of 5'10, with a tan skin tone that showed his Colombian ancestry, while his facial features were completely Far-Eastern, showing his Japanese ancestry. He is also incredibly charismatic man that invigorated his workers extremely well and is very charming around other people. However, he is also bipolar, and massivly paranoid, who believes that his father, who died in a lab accident when Salvador was just starting highschool, was murdered by coporate subotage. He is also incredibly fit, making sure to constantly strengthen his body and do yoga in his office regularly, as well as train in several forms of martial arts in order to not be easily assassinated,

Salvador wants to help humanity and the planet, focusing his resources on the most brilliant minds who share the goals of solving global warming, since Salvador believes that making sure that the planet survives will ensure humanity's survival as well. He also desires to increase the life span of humanity beyond its natural limit.

He is a man who wants results, giving all of his employes as much money and freedom that he can allow, but he's also constantly afraid for his life and believes that his competitors are constantly planning to kill him, so he hires criminals through third parties to steal any evidence that it is true, with the criminal he hires most being the superpowered criminal Blink.

Martial: 13 (Salvador is incredibly fit and he knows the basics of several martial arts)
Diplomacy: 19 (Salvador is very attractive, charismatic and charming to others. He knows his ways around conversations and can get what he wants through convincing others)
Stewardship: 16 (Salvador knows how to run a bussiness and is really skilled at it, keeping it as a leader in its field)
Intrigue: 20 (He suffers from paranoia and will stop at nothing to prove that his fears are justified. He also knows how to cover his tracks really well, making it pretty hard to find evidence of any criminal activity on his part)
Learning: 13 (while he isn't an idiot, he rather leave more complicated things to his workers, giving them as much money and freedom to make some significant progress, while also keeping an eye on them of course)
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I admit, this isn't the best work that I could have done, but I hope that it's somewhat good. If I reach the top 5, then I'll have more characters to create and then I'll unleash much more of what I can write. This was just something that came up to my head.
 
[X] Work with the Government
[X] Reach out to the DEO
[X] Hire more LexCorp security forces
[X] Build Rebecca Carstairs a research lab for magic
[X] Investigate Sasha Glynul
[X] Elaine Marsh-Morton
[X] Learn about magic
[X] The A.M.A.Z.O. project
[X] Offer to consult with Russia
 
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