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[X] Plan Handle Karnz Personally
Well honestly I can't come up with anything better but this seems to handle things fairly well.
Well honestly I can't come up with anything better but this seems to handle things fairly well.
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Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest
- Thread starter King crimson
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Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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[X] Plan Handle Karnz Personally
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
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So right now there is a tie between plan follow our leads and plan handle karnz personally. If the tie is not broken by the time I end the vote I'll flip a coin to see which outcome is attained. I plan to close the vote late either tonight or tomorrow night depending on how studying for finals goes.
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Just a thought but does Katherine know about Pamela doing human experimentation? When she finds out I would imagine she would be rather pissed at her and Lex for it. We probably should preempt that just in case she takes it badly and reveals it to some of the more good aligned people in lex corp or even to the press.
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Probably see if we can gauge her reaction a bit and if her reactions are negative see if we could change that through either persuasion or mind control if Pamela is willing barring that make absolutely certain that none of the people involved in the experiment talks maybe by magical means.
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This sounds like the kind of plan where we end up controlling people to stop them from noticing we are controlling people or something.
We seem to have done a competent job disposing of the bodies and ensuring the relevant information doesn't spread around. Katherine Kane isn't really MORE of a risk along those lines than any of a number of our other employees including numerous mooks whose names we don't even know.
With that said...
@King crimson
Do we have an option along the lines of:
[] Make sure evidence of our testing on captured human test subjects is well buried ?
It would make sense for us to be able to do that, though we'd need to be careful about who we assign to the job.
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But would they have laser eyes and be stronger then stone?
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
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Sorry for being a little out of touch, studying for finals has kept me busy. There will be an update tonight,
I'll toss in the option to further bury the evidence (the corpses were pretty thoroughly disposed of though but I'll let you bury things further). That's 100 exp earned.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
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Sorry to disappoint but the update might be delayed until tomorrow. Studying for finals is being brutal
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It's ok. Your academics come 1st. Good luck!
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I'm mainly thinking of the research data and things like that, making sure it's only accessible to those with need to know, preferably those who are complicit (like Carl, who kidnapped the people in the first place).
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Guys, at some point can we please buy the Daily Planet? Supes is incoming and this would help a lot to keep tabs on him and screw with him.
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Good point. We can also have Carl turn the place into a fortress with heavy surveilence. If they complain about overkill and violation of privacy, we point to Lois Lane's near death via assassination and say "LexCorp takes employee health & safety seriously."
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OK that's actually a good idea.
Trouble is, it's a DC 84 Stewardship action, so we'd need a good team. Something like:
Lex (31) + Mari (1.3*16) + Felicity (1.1*21) + Lex's Trait (+10) = 31+19+24+10 = +84.
Hm, perfect!
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Yes, but why would we do it outside of metaknowledge? We, the players know it is the place of employment of Lex's future arch-nemesis. Lex does not.
Edit: Actually now that I think about it make sense as the DP houses that eternal thorn in our side, Lois Lane. Of course, us buying the Planet make her more suspicious but taking us on is now a lot harder. Buying the DP to mess with Superman? Too early. Buying the DP to mess with Lois? It makes a lot more sense. Plus, it helps to have good press, even if you have to buy it.
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ah but it is the most well known media outlet in Metropolis why wouldn't Lex want to have both Newspaper and news on tv
Kkutlord
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Lois Lane is bit of an annoyance for Lex though, since she's utterly convinced he must be a bad guy and generally makes us look bad. Besides, absorbing the Daily Planet would really help out Lightyear Entertainment, and Galaxy Communications is little more than a burned wreck.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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Buy it, change absolutely nothing, see how long it takes her to drive herself insane.
Metaknowledge is kinda sketchy anyway. Poison Ivy's in Metropolis, Mr. Freeze is working for Batman, and Scarecrow is technically vaguely hero-ish. Who's to say that Superman would even be joining the Daily Planet in this timeline instead of anywhere else? Gotham has like 90% of the world's supervillains, he might set up there.
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It's plausible.
If we assume that the process which turned Clark Kent into Superman involved him thinking "where in America can I do the most good," moving there, and striving to help out, then it's very plausible.
The trouble is, there's not a lot of evidence that that's how things played out. Metropolis isn't generally portrayed as being a uniquely crime-ridden city before Superman showed up. Clark Kent didn't pick the worst spot in America and go clean it up, so Metropolis being relatively less badly off than in canon (is it, really?) or Gotham being worse off (maybe it is?) may not actually change the process that influenced his decisions.
It seems more likely that Clark just happened to wind up in Metropolis because the Daily Planet hired him to do what he honestly wanted to do as Clark Kent, and then decided to take on the mantle of Superman to defend the city he already lived in from disasters, supervillains, and whatnot. In which case while we certainly could butterfly that process, it's more likely to happen because of true butterfly effects (things we can't detect with minor knock-on consequences) than because of some major overt change in the timeline that we already know about.
Sort of like Wonder Woman becoming head of the DOMA doesn't seem to have been a direct consequence of anything we did, it just... happened.
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The thing is that Superman tends to attract aliens. Evil aliens. Batman would probably realize that and shoo him out of Gotham. Either that or Metropolis keeps being attacked by Superman-level threats anyway and Clark decides to stay where he is most needed. Plus, we are based in Metropolis. Superman is our arch-nemesis. I doubt @King crimson would have us commute every time we tangle with the Big Blue Boy Scout.
Also, @Torgamous never said anything about our actions leading to Superman ending up in Gotham just that it might happen because things are different then canon
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Lol I can just imagine Lex grumbling about the commute if it was needed.
But seriously the more we can 'screw over' supes without ACTUALLY screwing him over then the better it is. If it's anything like the Latveria quest, those options are gonna be bullshit hard. So more surveillance is key I reckon. Maybe we can assign Riddler? He is kind of a deniable asset.
But seriously the more we can 'screw over' supes without ACTUALLY screwing him over then the better it is. If it's anything like the Latveria quest, those options are gonna be bullshit hard. So more surveillance is key I reckon. Maybe we can assign Riddler? He is kind of a deniable asset.