...and we could add to that number.
I suspect that her regulars enjoyed hearing it, anyway.
Those two are prone to grudges for slights like that.
Indeed. Anyone who's anyone in the criminal world will tell you not to mess with Lex, so our hires no better, and best of all, with all these rewards and quality pay, ect, they have no reason to think a life of crime is more profitable, especially with the recent demonstration with what happens to embezzlers.
So I do want to point out that this technically isn't what's going on here.
Fair though it the situation arose we could probably take steps to figure that out by directing one without needing to join the Court.
I mean.. to each their own and all but I literally cannot understand how you hold this opinion.
Okay sure but that doesn't make the stat itself any less significant.
You raise a fair point here, depending on the DC and if we improve Cassandra's Stewardship it might be worth it to do this rather than propaganda.
A minor detail, while I fully agree with your overall point your maths is slightly wrong.
It's good to see Karl is staying relatively stable and taking steps to help himself.
Very sweet, I'm glad Siobhan finally worked up the courage to talk to Oswald and that he got a chance to see how impactful his work can be.
"AlphabetEye" hmm? Better make sure it doesn't have any siblings.
So Rose is coming back and has seemingly worked out that there is some sort of strange connection between herself and her father.
God…damnit Moon.
@King crimson i assume the bold part is meant to be Leonard?
I'm torn on this one, on the one hand Lucy and Lois' relationship worsening is good for us because it makes Lucy more dependent on us but on the other hand them getting along doesn't exactly hurt us and makes Lois less likely to get suspicious.
It's easy to forget how much of a monster Meena can be.
I mean, we didn't mean it as a punishment/threat but if she wants to take it as one…
I know we want to have Devereux get some therapy, and we absolutely should do that at some point, but I definitely think we should sit Paige down and try and at least rein some of her issues in.
I'm with ya Siobhan, exams are an outdated method that don't prove anything and just give people complexes.
It's good that Fixit is interested in continuing his work on LMD's since we want him doing that anyway, it's even better to have an explicit statement that they're not quite ready for robotic conversion yet but aren't far off.
Ha, fuck you Villain.
Such a good boy, I say this four the hundredth time but we really need to get around to doing that lion intelligence spell especially if we want to use Brown's serum on him at some point.
Yes but let me get some sleep first. It's nearly midnight and I've got stuff going on tomorrow. I'll give a definitive answer by 8 pm PST tomorrow to this question.
If it makes you feel any better, one of the names I scrapped for the program was "Scrowley" but the link felt too tenuous so I went with AlphabetEye, as a more literal description of what the program does.
Yeah I'll fix that.
Glad to see this landed as intended. Meena's a lot nicer than most mad scientists, but make no mistake, she's very much in the same vein of most mad scientists. I think Meena's actually a really scary mad scientist character because she gets people to drop their guard around her. I'll also say that the initial draft actually made Meena even more monstrous but I ended up cutting stuff and rewriting it because Meena's generally competent in gauging long term costs and benefits, and she's not sadistic.
Bialya generally isn't as out and out scary to outsiders, but it's a country of virtual nightmare fuel when you start thinking about what exactly is going on there.
Hmmm..Bialya should develop it's Industry under the Monaco model as a tax haven and a playground for the Rich & Famous. They won't bother to think and expect subservience in the service sector anyways.
I'm liking it at least for right now because it makes it less likely for Lois to be obsessing about LexCorp when we'd much prefer that she be falling for Wayne (and vice versa). Admittedly... Bruce isn't all that likely to settle down if he's still selling that playboy image. Still, a guy can dream, right?
Can LexCorp liscense it from Nygma for Handshake? Or assist Nygma in licensing deals with Kord & other businesses? Nygma is a great programmer but he sucks at business.
I can explain this. Cass replacing Lex as the CEO is the end game stuff (unless we get Lex killed or kidnapped). Stats I assume are less relevant for it, than for the game itself. I mean either we have everything under control and it does not matter if Cass have 30 or 20 stewardship at this point or everyone is dead. I very much doubt that QM will go with: you left company in good state but I made quadrillion rolls for the aftermath and conluded that in epilogue 100 years after your company is broke, because you have not invested in stewardship heavy enough. I guess that Cass stewardship can have some narrative weight but as long as it is not in single digits I doubt that it would affect things that much.
I had a different teams in mind, but the more data points the better. In particular I wanted to see how hard would be to improve Raven coops with Jinx ( I assume it will increase DC but with good team it could be worth it), also Oswald can be a good support hero on this action. I'll made some calculations and suggest teams later if I don't end up too busy today. Tell me what plans you already have for Oswald, Jinx and maybe Pamela if you can, so I can take it under consideration.
There are a few major flaws in this logic IMO:
While how interesting you find Stewardship actions is a matter of personal opinion there's no denying the fact that it is arguably the most important type of action in the entire quest and it'd be kinda insane to have Cassandra just… not be good at it when we could change that.
Yes we theoretically could make a team that works but it will mean having to sacrifice hero units elsewhere when we could easily just work around it and make all our lives simpler.
I don't think it would be a good idea to have Jinx on this. While we would like to boost their coop score a bit the fact that it's actively negative at the moment would probably cause more problems than it's worth.
Right now I'm thinking we put Oswald and Leslie on giving her her own show, Pamela and someone else on Gingo Fruit and Jinx is more flexible.
Isn't Shiva going to test her eventually? So martial to survive what's coming would probably equal in importance.
She already has 29 Martial, functionally 44, and all the assets of LexCorp at her disposal to deal with the Lady Shiva situation on top of her ??? trait, it's not really a concern.
It only benefits if we put Cass on it. We don't have to use her to find her own instructor.
True but why wouldn't we? It's a Cassandra special action and her being on it makes it significantly more likely that she gets a teacher that can actually teach her something.
Cassandra rarely, if ever, leaves LexCorp property.
44 and a lot, a stat in the 30's tends to put you among the best in the world.
I have no idea what you mean by this.
Sure Shiva probably does have traits but we can't account for those and attempting to do so quickly leads to paranoia.
Teach raven Lexcorp propaganda. Statistically, Helena, Jinx, and Mercy form a strong team in spite of Raven's opposition.
I thought KC had decided to relax that with Cassandra getting older and being particularly mature for her age and manipulative? I know she leads learning actions.
She has 32 martial, functionally 47, until we vote on her trait/traits in results 4, which may include options to raise her martial further.
Some prideful martial arts instructors might insist on only teaching a student who is "worth there time" which makes involving Cassandra in the action worthwhile. It also let's us separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of those skilled enough to teach Cassandra.
Well for comparison, Siobhan had a martial of 28 with her superhuman strength, regeneration, and devastating scream attacks. This turn both she and Cassandra reached a Martial of 32, her by learning to overclock her body to even greater superhuman fears of strength and speed as well as greater control over her banshee scream, Cassandra by becoming an adept strategist.
How would that work? Unless she's carrying around a kryptonite weapon or a magic item she shouldn't be able to do DMG to Superman no master what.
She martial arts, guns and explosives, plus body reading, let's her incorporate kryptonite bombs and other kryptonite weapons into dismantling him. Hard to estimate how much damage she would do, but it would definitely be some, and lingering at that.
I think it's usually a rival report.
On a lunch break so I'm replying on my phone, please forgive any errors that crop up as a result from it. The general way things work with results is part 1 is part 1 is your actions, part 2 is personal actions, part 3 is others actions, part 4 is non-plan subvotes and part 5 is plan subvotes. From there I do other stuff as appropriate but stop labeling it "results". Last turn I split part 5 and I might end up needing to do so again.
That seems a bit resource intensive when just Cassandra, Raven and Starfire are a bonus +84 regardless of if Cassandra or Starfire are in charge.
I was planning on saving my exp to boost Marie's Diplomacy to the cap preformed she was roboticisezed but given that will be at least another two turns now I'd be willing to spend 2000 on Cassandra's Stewardship if you do the same.
I'm not sure, I don't remember that but I could be wrong.
Plus Cassandra actually having chi might mean she's more likely to weigh results in favour of a teacher that also has it.
Superman has a trait that causes any attack that doesn't beat him by at least 35 to be negated as long as he's in yellow sunlight and it isn't kyrptonite or magic based.
I don't like to not use special actions. I'd rather invest the heavy resources than not have Cassandra take her own version. Also it feels like Cassandra participating in a Raven Special diplomacy action without Jinx would exasperate there issues or at least fail to fix them. Plus, taking them together would provide synergy, so even if one rolled low it might benefit from the other actions high success.
Well we don't have to do it now, but thanks for the heads up. I'll keep that in mind.
I see where you're coming from and I'm somewhat hesitant myself but I kinda feel like if we're not putting Cassandra on the action to socialise Raven then there's no real point in doing it. After all the goal is to tie Raven more closely to LexCorp and we can either do that by feeding her propaganda with all the risks that come with that or by having Cassandra befriend her and tie her around her finger to secure a more personal loyalty. While her having other friends within the company wouldn't hurt it's not really worth it if it isn't Cassandra.
That's definitely a possibility but I imagine that short of a disastrous roll it's an unlikely from just one action.
Ehh, KC tends not to do "same turn synergy" on actions we take.
No problem, let me know if you decide to go ahead with it.
Which doesn't make much sense since most of the hero units close to her in age we would tying her too aren't going to be leaving Lexcorp. Neither Jinx or Starfire are going to be leaving Lexcorp the way things stand. Either would do. It distinctly isn't necessary to tie her to Cassandra specifically.
