VoidZero
Passing Flan 布丁魔王
- Location
- Anywhere but RL
A sort of soup kitchen and shelter hybrid that is being repackaged to tie image of Lex closer to the masses.
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Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest
- Thread starter King crimson
- Start date
- Superhero
A sort of soup kitchen and shelter hybrid that is being repackaged to tie image of Lex closer to the masses.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
Alright it is accepted then
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
When we make a game division in LexCorp and develop a console, we have to name it the Lex-Box 
Non canon omake:Forty Cakes
- Location
- California
Forty Cakes
"Mr. Luthor.""Mr. Holt."
"Do you know why you're here?" asked the older man, Raymond Holt, of the currently glaring face of his young charge.
"I couldn't say," said Alexander "Lex" Luthor as he sat silently across from the office desk .
Mr. Holt sighed audibly and opened the fairly sizeable academic file that he had on Lex Luthor. The young Luthor had been at the Metropolis School for Exceptional Young Men since he'd been six years old. And from day one, Raymond Holt had been impressed with the young man's intellect...and dismayed at the lack of parental support. Over the years, as Headmaster of the school, Mr. Holt had seen how this had weighed on Lex and how his intellect isolated from his peers. All exemplified by the size of Lex's disciplinary file.
Mr. Holt opened the file and took a moment to peruse the latest incident.
"It says here: When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes..." he trailed off. That was just...stupid.
"You took 40 cakes? That's as many as four tens. That's...." Mr. Holt trailed off, searching for the word to describe the act.
"Terrible?" offered Lex with a small smirk.
"Disappointing," Mr. Holt corrected, "you got caught: that's why you're here and that was sloppy. If you're going to do something, Mr. Luthor, do it well. But, more than that, it's a waste of potential."
"Yes, yes. I've heard it all before, Mr. Holt-"
"Not from me, you haven't. Look, Mr. Luthor- I've seen how the older boys treat you. And, I'm sure you've heard it all before as to why: you're younger, they're intimidated by your intellect, etc. All true. But, I don't think you get that they are jealous of you."
"Jealous?"
"Yes- your mind, Mr. Luthor, is one that could change the world. And those young men can feel that and they wish they also had that potential. But, that's all that is- potential. You're not changing anything if you use that mind to steal forty cakes rather than, I don't know, making a nuclear powered toaster. Just an example.
And, the truth is that there will be people like the Oliver and the other young men making fun of you out there in the real world. And you can either lower yourself to their level and continue doing wasteful things like stealing cakes. Or..."
"Or?" asked Lex, genuinely curious.
"Or you could show yourself their better. Become a leader, a creator- shape the world. Don't let these men and their world shape you."
"... Huh."
"I hope you think about that, Mr. Luthor. In the meantime, you will be spending your time baking forty cakes to replace the ones you've stolen."
Years later, Lex Luthor stood in his meticulously decorated office looking out the window and Metropolis. His city. For a moment, he was tempted to order the stealing of forty cakes from one of the legendary bakeries, both to help with LexCorp's R&D into food production, but also as a lark. He was sure he wouldn't get caught this time. Instead, he walked back to his desk and to an open box with a Lex-Phone in it with a thank you card to Mr. Holt.
Every new product, Mr. Holt was provided an example of his former student's work. And, Lex got a reply from his proud Headmaster.
"Mercy, could you have this gift delivered to Mr. Raymond Holt?"
@King crimson
Few more ideas for actions. This time diplomatic one.
[] Negotiate a joint project with another company.
- Sometimes cooperation with a rival is an option. It also gives an opportunity to learn more about them to destroy later.
[] Seduce *insert character name* (Lois and her sister are the first candidates)
- Feeling of love can be created and exploited
[] Establish friendly contacts with the government of Qurac\Santa Prisca\Markovia.
- Sometimes you can get resources of a country without taking it under your control.
Few more ideas for actions. This time diplomatic one.
[] Negotiate a joint project with another company.
- Sometimes cooperation with a rival is an option. It also gives an opportunity to learn more about them to destroy later.
[] Seduce *insert character name* (Lois and her sister are the first candidates)
- Feeling of love can be created and exploited
[] Establish friendly contacts with the government of Qurac\Santa Prisca\Markovia.
- Sometimes you can get resources of a country without taking it under your control.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
I enjoyed this although I don't think it fits into the Canon (lex hasn't stolen forty cakes yet) I do think this is a really good omake though. Have 200 exp.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
Everything but the seduce option is accepted (wait a bit and you will be able to engage in such behavior).
- Location
- California
@King crimson
[] Hire PR and Marketing Firm: Before LexCorps' move to the civilian sector, LuthorCorp made its money through weapons production and development. Which wasn't targeted at mass markets or at manipulating the press. Now, with the general lack of attention a whole new system of banking and life-like prosthetics has garnered from the public (and the Lois Lane interview of Lex Luthor) its obvious that LexCorp doesn't have sufficient expertise in the fields of Public Relations and Marketing. Time to fix that.
[] Hire PR and Marketing Firm: Before LexCorps' move to the civilian sector, LuthorCorp made its money through weapons production and development. Which wasn't targeted at mass markets or at manipulating the press. Now, with the general lack of attention a whole new system of banking and life-like prosthetics has garnered from the public (and the Lois Lane interview of Lex Luthor) its obvious that LexCorp doesn't have sufficient expertise in the fields of Public Relations and Marketing. Time to fix that.
- Location
- Existence
I'm kind iffy on the write ins at this point, sure it's good that this quest is loved, but your giving our good quest master to much work.
Put my 300XP to Pamela's stewardship. I think we'll benefit from her being more adequate in business side of things.
- Location
- England
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Wouldn't that reduce our control over her?
- Location
- Milky Way, Orion Arm, 3rd rock from the sun
- Pronouns
- He/Him
you do know that would take some time her stewardship is at 2 only right now but go for it it your exp.
ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
We need to raise our Diplomacy, because this isn't the last we're going to see of Lois Lane trying to ruin our reputation, and we need to at least tie with her in Diplomacy, if not outright have better Diplomacy than her. Our experience expanditure should really be focused on Diplomacy till we hit 28\29 Diplomacy.
Also, the easiest way for us to remove Lois as a problem is to disgrace her and make sure that her reputation as a journalist will be ruined and stay ruined for the rest of this quest (hopefully through finding an scandal, not making one specifically to ruin her reputation, as making a scandal could leave evidence of our involvment and that would not be a good thing for us)
Also, the easiest way for us to remove Lois as a problem is to disgrace her and make sure that her reputation as a journalist will be ruined and stay ruined for the rest of this quest (hopefully through finding an scandal, not making one specifically to ruin her reputation, as making a scandal could leave evidence of our involvment and that would not be a good thing for us)
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
This is good but I honestly don't remember if someone else hasn't already suggested something similar already. I'm going to hold off on accepting it until I thoroughly make sure I'm not repeatedly accepting the same write-in. If there is no prior use of this write-in then I probably will accept it.
I'm on it.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
I think someone already suggested a making a Lex Corp HR/PR, but not Hiring a PR Firm tho
How? That could be a valid concern if her stewardship could somehow get to something like a half of Luthor's, not gonna happen in a near future
Yes. I know. And It is exactly why I want it higher. I see her as a long term investment (unlike the professor) and stat 2 anyway is asking for a disaster in a surprise roll. Also it makes cooperation actions more awkward. I want something like 5 in a long run. Hope someone will find it a good use for their XP, too.
Also, I am not really min-maxer in quests (I'd go for Luthor's stats in that case, this is far more efficient use of XP). I like Pamela's story potential and want invest my xp in her.
- Location
- Milky Way, Orion Arm, 3rd rock from the sun
- Pronouns
- He/Him
@King crimson i am curious how many options will there be at turn 3 have we finally crossed over 100 yet?
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
Yes. I've been working on the options ahead of time and just with the stuff I had yesterday you were at about 95 options. You've easily passed that.
- Location
- England
- Pronouns
- He/Him
With her Stewardship so low she's dependant on Mercy to handle almost all of her logistical problems, if her Stewardship gets to be even as high as 8 she probably won't need us to fund her after her first big break which will probably be soon since this is Pamela.
- Location
- California
Can we spend XP to increase a character's Cooperation score?
If we can, might not be a bad idea to invest in that for Pamela.
If we can, might not be a bad idea to invest in that for Pamela.
- Location
- Eugene OR US
[X] [answer] Tell Lois that the investigation is ongoing and any information provided may harm the investigation or endanger people. When we get actionable information, we will hand it over to the appropriate authorities who can determine in what manner they can safely disseminate the information.
- Location
- U.S.
you know i think it might reduce the workload for @King crimson if he updated both the omake rewards and exp spending at the beginning of a turn. so example
post up turn actions to choose from, posts up/award exp total omake rewards, then players vote on both actions and spending exp, just to consolidate everything.
post up turn actions to choose from, posts up/award exp total omake rewards, then players vote on both actions and spending exp, just to consolidate everything.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
No exp cannot be used to boost cooperation scores. Taking certain actions or having multiple heroes succeed in something after having been assigned to the same task can though (it's what increased Lex and Mercy's cooperation score)
It's still at a point I can handle. Thanks for thinking of me though! Part of the reason why it's been so strenuous now is because I wrote three interludes back to back (I had to do all the rolls about thirty minutes before a vote closed to ensure it would accurately reflect the votes and then write it in that time frame). If it gets so bad that I can't keep up with the workload I will let you all know.
I'm thinking of switching over to a system where write-ins will be accepted and you can donate whenever early but the informational posts will only be updated after I post the next update.
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I see your logic here. But I want to raise her stewardship not to the "capable to run her own company level" but to the "can actually manage a lab with a team of assistants or oversee construction of an experimental farm"
- Location
- Alabama
- Pronouns
- He/They
Isn't he like an exiled Fey? Floronic Man. Of course, I also remember Legrand being the a-hole with Pamela so I might be remembering a different continuity here.
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