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Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest
- Thread starter King crimson
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- Superhero
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- United States
I really feel sorry for Ivo, I hope we can complate Amazo in time.
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- Where I an right now
It has been a while since most of our hero's are working in a field they are happy with
I have an idea for Riddler if we run out of exploration action or he wants to do something inside, or a personal action
Have him work with Oswald to make a series of puzzles and toys for children to play with and solve, LexCorp can use them for kid friendly programming or to start for civilian products.
I have an idea for Riddler if we run out of exploration action or he wants to do something inside, or a personal action
Have him work with Oswald to make a series of puzzles and toys for children to play with and solve, LexCorp can use them for kid friendly programming or to start for civilian products.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
You can go to the website random.org and tell it to roll a d-whatever-number-you want, you know. It's what I did when I was in college.
Hm. Rose Wilson as a mecha pilot definitely gives her a way to differentiate herself from dear ol' dad. Nice.
Hm. Disappointing, but we can improve it I guess. The PMC is likely to be a major asset for direct military action, so spending a few actions cultivating it is likely to be important- sort of like the exosuits.
OK good. It sounds like we don't have her on staff as a permanent hero unit, but it's a good start.
Crud.
Well, with that said, we should take a scientist or two; we may lose Karl soon and we can use all the mental muscle we can get.
Good result. Hopefully this will reduce some DCs or the bad consequences of failures. Bringing Lucy Lane on-board as a hero unit would be nice, of course.
Ah, very good, Mr. Nygma.
Also, we should probably keep that radioactive guy on payroll. And pay some hush money or something.
Very good! And this gives us something to do with Carl when he's not fortifying stuff.
Meh. Well, OK, not bad, we may have to take another action with it to really nail things down.
Excellent. Whacking Vincent Edge sounds within her wheelhouse.
Damn.
We have no idea whether Cerise actually had these powers before or not, do we?
We can't tell whether this is because she's actually a mighty clairvoyant mage out of legend, or whether she's just, y'know, good at what she does.
On the other hand, we can keep using her for similar actions.
...Fifty men. Nice.
I mean, that's fair. I was hoping this would actually enhance his odds on the project, and in the subvote we should DEFINITELY prioritize mind-machine interfaces and uploading, whatever is likely to lead to progress on A.M.A.Z.O.
But Ivo's demands are reasonable, I fully support them, and quite frankly I think we should throw Lex and a strong collaborative team at A.M.A.Z.O. next turn to bring about the success he desires.
Ah, shit. OK, we need to figure out something on this. Maybe have Pamela lead a stronger collaboration on the project next turn. That plus Lex means a LOT of resources committed, but what can we do? At least we'll hopefully have one more scientist next turn.
We could stack, say, Lex+Ivo+Cassandra =
36 + (.45*33 = +15) + (2*(15-5) = +20) + (Ivo's Trait +7) + (Lex's Trait +10) =
+88 on the die roll.
Maybe throw in Dahl if we want virtually total certainty of success; that gives us +11 for Dahl's contribution (1.5*11), and another +5 to Lex's bonus for a total of +104.
Then for bone growth
Pamela+Karl+Jinx+Mercy =
+47 (existing collaboration) + 10 + (Mercy's Trait +10) = +67, enough to beat the DC if it doesn't rise.
Nice. We have good things we can have Carol work on. Maybe we can further lower A.M.A.Z.O. DCs this way.
@King crimson , does this request of Carol refer specifically to "expand Ferris Aerospace," the specific action? Or to aerospace actions in general?
Mook Mark One battle droid activated. Roger-roger.
We need a better killbot. Sic Rose on them, at least she'll have fun beating up the killbots.
Or we could have Rose and Cassandra team up on them. They can have lots of fun beating up the killbots.
It is probably just as well if we don't hand it to Cerise.
We need to study the sword. And we need it to NOT be Cerise who studies the sword. Rebecca has a project.
Ahh, very good!
I should write an omake featuring some quality time with Rose, Mercy, and Mercy's great-aunt Mildred who lives on the Eastern Shore.
Mildred makes a fine role model for a girl like Rose, if you ask me.
Awwh.
Double awwh.
...Gigante.
I can't help but wonder if she married into the real-life Gigantes.
Surely not.
Oof.
We need to make progress on the project AND get him to a shrink.
...Wait, who's grumpy mustache man again. Karl?
Ah shit. We need to get Loomis to a shrink too.
[hug]
...What do you want to bet that the next time we have him upgrade our fortifications, he sneaks a bowling alley into LexCorp Headquarters.
Hm. We should market them for gifted kids.
Hmmm. A taste for classical artwork, perhaps?
Awww.
That is actually a good idea, since Oswald and Nygma get along well.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
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- Los Angeles
Hilariously that is almost exactly what Nygma did do in his personal action (Stripling is an archaic word for young man) before being told that what he made was to complicated (Granted he wasn't doing it with Oswald). I'll toss in an action though to use Nygma's previously rejected designs. I consider it a success that the sesquipedalian loquaciousness (overly long words) employed in the Nygma sections is needlessly obtuse since I was going for that when writing him.
I believe you've earned 100 exp
Aerospace actions in general
She ended up marrying a mobster named Rocco Gigante (her full name is Sofia Falcone-Gigante) if that helps clear things up at all.
It's Karl (he and Oswald are the only characters in your employ with facial hair and Oswald tends not to be grumpy around children).
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- Mid-Atlantic
...Some day I want Nygma and Lex to have a meeting where he's constantly trying to prove himself the greater mind, and some third party comments on it at the end of the meeting, and Lex innocently says "Oh, he was? I didn't realize he was trying."
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- USA
@Simon_Jester I asked and stuff like Commercial Planes which is DC 2 (and should get reduced by Carol trait) counts.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I'd gathered as much from King's response to me, yes.
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- Singapore
I wonder if we can have Nygma have a regular segment on Oswald's show, travelling around the world to solve various mysteries/paranormal events with Rebecca as a counterpoint to debunk fake mystics.
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- USA
@King crimson for Carol's trait what happens if it would reduce the DC below 0?
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Also looking at things we have 8 subvotes and an event?
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Also looking at things we have 8 subvotes and an event?
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King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
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- Los Angeles
Might not work for the Uncle Ozzy show but it is certainly possible. Considering that Nygma is wanted by Batman it probably isn't the best idea to make him super well known to the public but I can see the benefit to it. If it were to happen they'd get their own show to do it on (something kind of X-files esque).
If it reduces below 0 then it guarantees a certain level of success. The degree of success is calculated as the difference between the DC and the final results of the roll. As such a DC below zero guarantees that even with a roll of 1 you will have a decent degree of success (-20 DC and a roll of 1 gives you the same degree of success as 40 DC and a roll of 61)
And yup by my count it is eight subvotes and an event. Granted a lot of the subvotes are relatively small but they are still happening (You have multiple subvotes with less than 5 options available at the start I believe). The event though will have a lot of stuff going on in it.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Plus, I suspect that Nygma won't be able to go on air without ranting about what a genius he is, and that it'll be off-putting to the audience.
I don't think it's a coincidence that all the characters we've seen who were successful in show business and either stayed there or were forced out by unrelated circumstances have Diplomacy above 10.
Hudson Pyle? Diplomacy 17, famous actor.
Daphne Dean? Diplomacy 17, famous actress.
Lisa Snart? Diplomacy 13, moderately successful TV actress.
Roxy Rocket? Diplomacy 13. Successful in show biz, until her tendency to indulge in reckless stunts got her blacklisted.
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Now look at the characters we know didn't make it in show business, for reasons that seem to have been inherently related to their performance.
Rebecca? Diplomacy 8. The public freaked out after she used her pyrokinesis when assassins crashed party. Diplomacy 8. I bet if Daphne had come out as a metahuman, she'd have been able to keep her career. Rebecca needed to find a second line of work, which fortunately she's very good at- namely, being Lex Luthor's court wizard.
Marie Dahl? Started out with Diplomacy... 6 or 7, I forget. Her career totally collapsed after she lost the Baby Doll gig. Some of that was undoubtedly due to her disability of looking like a little girl, but she could have become a voice actress, or parlayed it into something
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Edward Nygma has Diplomacy 2. He's not cut out for a career in television, at least not in front of the camera..
Well, that stands ato reason.
Negative DC to actions means that we're sure of success, but it doesn't mean the action auto-completes without us trying. Ferris Aerospace may be able to trivially revolutionize civilian air travel with its self-flying planes, but it still has to go through the process of setting up a production line and actually selling the planes.
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- USA
I was curious as I could see 0 being the floor for DCs so good to know before we take the action. A pity commercial planes is not a building action to get hunting on that other trait for Carol.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Sure, but from the sound of it, even if she develops a building trait we're going to have to throw her at aerospace now and then. Which isn't a bad idea; she's good at it.
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- USA
Well for one thing the space building is an example of something that helps Ferris and is a building action. As it is for Carol we may want to do a 2 turns on Ferris actions 1 turn on other stuff.
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- Singapore
I was thinking more like The Avengers with Nygma's bowler hat and all but hey whatever works.
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- Mid-Atlantic
That's fair. She's done a lot of other good work for us, we have hope of getting a few more decent Stewardship heroes soonish, and aerospace progress is good for us too (flocks of flying kill-plane robots, for instance).
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- Singapore
Maybe we can have Carl & Carol work together on that? A factory/assembly line with as much security as possible without compromising efficiency and safety.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I mean in theory, sure. But on the other hand, if Carol can blow the doors off the task by herself, then it's probably a waste of resources to put Carl on it when we have so many other tasks that could use a Stewardship 16 hero unit.
Especially since Carl and Carol don't get along that well; their co-op score is 0.6. Which would mean that while Carl's Stewardship 16 applies, Carol's Stewardship 14 is effectively decreased by 5 points or so, even though her trait operates at full force. We'd get more likelihood of improved outcomes through hero-power from separating them than working together, unless there was a single really important option involving flying robots that we needed them for or something.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
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- Los Angeles
I'm not actually too familiar with The Avengers (the old British show) but I could see something like that getting made. I'll add it to my list of stuff to check out when I have free time.
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- Where I an right now
I finally got one
now have*
taking care of the alpha in the pack would be* ? im not sure but the weird part is "pack would he go"
Fifty good men.
Also I just want to kill off Karl and Ivo but that would upset our other heroes. argh.
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- Israel
To be honest, I was quite surprised from what we got in the results. A large shame over Karl, we need to fix this.
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- USA
Karl and Ivo we probably want to brute force next turn. If we do a Lex Ivo Mercy team up we can put Dahl on the selling universal translator action since she reduces the DC.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Please don't ruin this.
I mean, Ivo's working really hard and doing a good job, it's just that he's conceited from being a one-in-a-billion legendary genius whose life depends on "invent a robot body to upload my consciousness into and abandon this melting mass of deformed meat that's collapsing around me," oh and he has literally 2-3 years in which to do this. It's hard to blame him for being kind of stressed and pissed.
Karl's more frustrating because he's acting super irrationally and becoming obsessed with this very specific and weird biological formula that has serious drawbacks and really isn't that great. His son's death is a shame because it destabilized him so much, but I'd still like to try to salvage him. The problem is just that doing so is hard because we only have so much scientific support to throw at the task.
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I'm going to repeat my earlier recommendation:
On A.M.A.Z.O., we stack, say, Lex+Ivo+Cassandra =
36 + (.45*33 = +15) + (2*(15-5) = +20) + (Ivo's Trait +7) + (Lex's Trait +10) =
+88 on the die roll.
Maybe throw in Dahl if we want virtually total certainty of success; that gives us +11 for Dahl's contribution (1.5*11), and another +5 to Lex's bonus for a total of +104. And still favorable enough to allow a reroll, even!
Then for bone growth:
Pamela+Karl+Jinx+Mercy =
+47 (existing collaboration) + 10 + (Mercy's Trait +10) = +67, enough to beat the DC if it doesn't rise.
It's not what you'd call maximally efficient, but it hopefully lets us salvage Karl or at least slow things down enough that he doesn't collapse on us. And we can expect good spin-offs out of A.M.A.Z.O.
@King crimson
Yeah about that. Is the "sell universal translators" action DC reduced by Mari, the woman with the Tantu Totem, or Marie, the woman stuck in a five year old's body? I just want to double-check.